April Art Guide - Bilbao

There are plenty of exhibitions where to nourish our thirst for art & inspiration during the month when we hope to welcome spring. Explore more on a private art tour!

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Exhibition: Post Production Life
Artist: Alfonso Batalla
Venue: Galería Vanguardia
Dates: Until April 12th, 2018

The work of Alfonso Batalla takes us to the abandoned arctic city of Pyramiden, while at the same time silences elements looking for quiet compositions that could be anywhere else. The choice of post-industrial scenes are a way to trigger a reflection on the contemporary techniques of post production in photography, resulting in a very pleasant visit on which to contemplate and rethink the effects of human settlement and so-called progress.

Photo from the exhibition Post Production Life, works by Alfonso Batalla © Galería Vanguardia

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Exhibition: Subespecies de Almacén (Warehouse subspecies)
Artists: Pablo Picasso, Néstor Basterretxea, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Pello Irazu, Jessica Stockholder, Joan Miró, Eva Rothschild, Anthony Caro, Víctor Vasarely, Asier Mendizabal, Txomin Badiola, Ángela de la Cruz, Manuel Millares, Juan Muñoz, Antonio Saura, Antoni Tapies, et al.
Venue: Carreras Múgica
Dates: From March 9th, 2018

What could have been a terribly commonplace idea, the garage sale, magically works at Carreras Múgica. The utter excitement and feeling of discovery one feels when visiting a good gallery’s storage spaces, is displaced with this exhibition into the gallery walls. Playing with a different set of logical decisions that those we are used to, the exhibition challenges current curating criterias and feels fresh and brave, in a way I am already looking forward to go back.

Photo from the exhibition Subespecies de Almacén © Carreras Múgica

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Exhibition: Art & Space, 
Artists: Eduardo Chillida & Martin Heidegger. Jorge Oteiza, Gordon Matta-Clark, Olafur Eliasson, Eva Hesse, Ernesto Neto, Damián Ortega, Lucio Fontana, Cristina Iglesias, Robert Motherwell, Asier Mendizabal, et al.
Venue: Guggenheim Bilbao
Dates: Until April 14th, 2018

The last chance to enter the White Bubble by Ernesto Neto is in the near future (physically enter, but only after removing your shoes) and to get struck by the large scale apparatus of Damián Ortega. An exhibition whose starting point is a collaboration between an artist and a philosopher: Eduardo Chillida & Martin Heidegger, which resulted in a book entitled Art and Space (1969).

Cosmic Thing, 2002 © Damián Ortega

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Header image: Photo from the exhibition Subespecies de Almacén © Carreras Múgica

April Art Guide - Milan

Recommendations of what to see in the Milan art scene this month by our local guide, Sara Cattaneo. Discover more on a private art tour!

I. 

Exhibition: Sporgersi nella notte
Artists: Sophie Ko
Venue: Renata Fabbri Arte Contemporanea
Dates: Until April 28th, 2018

Sporgersi nella notte (Leaning into the night) is the title of the solo show by Sophie Ko. The artist invites us to look towards the unknown and to question ideas and images in our everyday life. The artist has produced a series of new works by rearranging existing objects and other minimal interventions, exploring concepts of sacred, saint and earth. A unique exhibition of one of the most interesting contemporary artists active in town right now .

Courtesy Renata Fabbri Arte Contemporanea, Milano. credit Lorenzo Bacci

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Exhibition: Dialoghi
Artists: David Simpson / Francesco Bertocco
Venue: Office Project Room
Dates: Until April 30th, 2018

Office Project Room presents a solo exhibition by Francesco Bertocco, in dialogue with the work of the late Lilac by David Simpson. This is the first episode of the Dialoghi (Dialogues) cycle, a project that has the purpose to establish a dialogue between young artist and more established ones. With this selection of photographs, Francesco Bertocco explores the original setting of Sigmund Freud's study in Vienna, going to investigate the space as a place of the particular relationship between therapist and patient. Last but not least, the exhibition is displayed at Office Project Room, a fresh new space in Milan where the actual part of one of the offices is used as an exhibition space. An inspiring new way to investigate such an old field.

Courtesy Office Project Room, Milano

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Exhibition: Forme-pensiero
Artists: Meris Angioletti
Venue: Otto Zoo
Dates: Until May 12th, 2018

Otto Zoo presents a solo show by Meris Angioletti, that includes some recent artist’s works, all characterised by the use of primary elements borrowed from the language of film, such as light, projection and frame. The exhibition hosts for the first time a series of shadowgraphs: photographic images obtained by the simple interposition of objects between the paper and the light source. A new use of the light which creates non-classifiable works and it makes us reflect on the central dimension that light has in all its artistic declensions.

Courtesy Otto Zoo, Milano. Credit Ugo Dalla Porta

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April Art Guide - Warsaw

Recommendations of what to see in the Warsaw art scene this month by our local guide, Zuzanna Zasacka. Discover more on a private art tour!

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Exhibition: Friend of a Friend
Artists: Various Artists
Venue:  BWA Warszawa, Foksal Gallery Foundation, LETO, Piktogram, Dawid Radziszewski, Raster, Stereo, Wschód
Dates: April 7th until the 28th, 2018

“Friend of a Friend” project sees eight important and thriving Warsaw contemporary art galleries sharing their exhibition spaces with international guests. A dialogue with galleries from the Czech Republic, France, Germany, United States, Switzerland and Great Britain lies at the foundation of group shows featuring Polish and international artists. 
The idea of “FOAF” refers to London’s “Condo” initiative held since 2016. Based on the principle of friendly collaboration (and not competition, often associated with the art market), the event not only succeeds in establishing an innovative platform to present contemporary art, but also an exchange model that provides an alternative to art fairs.

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Exhibition: Wild at Heart
Artists: Various Artists
Venue: Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
Dates: until May 6th, 2018

The backbone of the exhibition Wild at Heart is the collection of the ING Polish Art Foundation which gathers the works by Polish living artists created post 1990. The precision of the spatial and temporal framework of this collection determines its content which focuses on the Polish scene during the social and economic transformation (following the fall of communism in 1989). 

Róża Litwa, untitled 2008, ING Polish Art Foundation

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Exhibition: "Otwock” Season 7: Lawrence Weiner
Artist: Lawrence Weiner
Venue:  Miroslaw Balka Studio
Dates: Opens April 7th, 2018

The seventh season of "Otwock" is dedicated to Lawrence Weiner. A pioneer of conceptual art, over the past five decades his installations consisting solely of words in a distinctive lettering painted on walls, have appeared in galleries, museums and public spaces all over the world. This spring, Weiner created a work for the wall of Miroslaw Balka’s studio in Otwock (the suburbs of Warsaw). He also prepared an intervention in the local newspaper.

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April Art Guide - Vienna

Recommendations of what to see in the Vienna art scene this month by our local guide, Itai Margula. Discover more on a private art tour!

I.

Exhibition: Rachel Whiteread
Artist: Rachel Whiteread
Venue:  Belvedere 21
Dates: Until July 29th, 2018

Rachel Whiteread was commissioned by the city of Vienna to design the Holocaust Memorial at Judenplatz, and although it was supposed to be finished in 1996, the unveiling of the monument took place in October 2000. With this monument, the British artist left a lasting mark on the city and transformed the discourse surrounding remembrance. It then took another eighteen years to have the first solo exhibition of the artist in a museum. This exhibition was made possible by Belvedere 21 together with Tate Britain, London, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in cooperation with the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Untitled (stairs) ©Alexandra Matzner for ARTinWORDS

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Exhibition: Cécile B. Evans AMOS' WORLD: Episode One
Artist: Cécile B. Evans
Venue: Mumok
Dates: Until July 1st, 2018 

For her show at mumok, Cecile B. Evans creates an architectural video installation. Conceived as a television show set in a socially progressive housing estate, the latest work of the artist: AMO’S WORLD: episode one, is a post-internet dystopia, dealing amongst other things, with the ever greater role technology takes on our feelings and perception. The exhibition is curated by Marianne Dobner.

AMO’S WORLD, 2017 video still, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Emanuel Layr Vienna/Rome

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Exhibition: Teddy Kollek. The Viennese mayor of Jerusalem
Artists: curated by Marcus Patka and Elke-Vera Kotowski
Venue: Jewish Museum Vienna
Dates: April 11th, 2018 until November 25th, 2018

 
Teddy Kollek was the mayor of Jerusalem for almost thirty years (1965 to 1993). Growing up in Vienna, Kollek left Austria at 24, heading towards Palestine in 1935. His life journey marks the constantly worsening conditions in Vienna before the Anschluss. However, Kollek had always stayed in contact with his former home country and helped build bridges between Austria and Israel. Even the long history of the Jewish Museum is connected to Kollek, but you can find out more by visiting the exhibition curated by Marcus Patka and Elke-Vera Kotowski. 

© David Rubinger, YEDIOTH AHARONOT

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April Art Guide - New York

Recommendations of what to see in the New York art scene this month by our local guide, Maya Yadid. Discover more on a private art tour!

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Exhibition: Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body (1300 - Now)
Artists: Various Artists
Venue: The Met Breuer
Dates: Until July 22nd, 2018

'Like Life' displays a variety of human sculptures from varying periods, from modern times and dating all the way back to the 1300s. The exhibition's driving point is to show how people have depicted the human body in sculpture, specifically the level of realism and attention to detail. Rather than this being a single artist’s project, this is a group effort organized and hosted by The Met, including pieces on loan from the classic period of European-origin.

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Exhibition: Objects as Friends
Artists: Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Venue: Gavin Brown Enterprise
Dates: Until April 22nd, 2018

This art exhibition takes on a more traditional approach in its display media, hitting close to home with its subject matter. With over 300 color photographs, the artists follow the trail of discarded and broken objects, capturing every imperfection from their useless state. Gruyter and Thys have adapted the idea from the late Johannes, an old German painter from the later 1940s. 

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Exhibition: Spring Performance Festival
Artists: Various Artists
Venue: The MoMA PS1, Long Island
Dates: April 15th, 2018, 12 pm - 6 pm

With MoMA PS1 acting as an entertainment venue, the Spring Performance Festival hosts various artists work and performances such as plays, music, video productions and solo pieces. It’s backed by Secret Project Robot, an alternative artist community based in Brooklyn. Aside from the featured performances, there will be “pop-up” artists and performances as well. The entire venue hopes to encourage people to interact with their current world through a display of art. 

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