Laser-Chronicles and Blueprints

Stefan Silies and Till Nachtmann have been working as a team with lasers, rockets, LEDs, mopeds, pinhole cameras and socks in Cologne, Kassel, Leipzig, New York, Korea, in the Ruhr Area and in Belgium since 1999.

For the current exhibition their alter ego, the enchanted lieutenant, is sent on a search for the stars. Read more...

Outside "The White Cube" - Space, staging and fiction in the installations of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.

Towards the end of the 1980s, the Russian artist Ilya Kabakov (born 1933) developed a special form of installation that he termed the "total" installation. A member of the Moscow Conceptualists, he transformed the prints and paintings he had produced in the 1960s and 70s into three-dimensional space. In the early 90s, he also began producing this special form of installation both inside and outside of the museum context in collaboration with his wife and fellow artist Emilia Kabakov (born 1945). Read more...

Josephine Meckseper's work is political, not a common occurrence in an art world which is overwhelmingly busy courting the stock market. She is even political with a vengeance, to the point of baffling those who are most ready to welcome her in their midst. Her explicit aim, though, often reiterated publicly, is sound enough. Her art, she said, is meant to offer a critique of "Consumer Society", the media and the aestheticization of politics. Yet she goes about it in a very unusual way. Instead of addressing the issue head on, as Leon Golub does, for instance, she skillfully uses "detournements" to comment ironically on her own displays ("Please Pardon our Appearance"), systematically turning the language and aesthetics of advertising against themselves. Read more...

Das Substitut eröffnet die Herbstsaison mit einer Doppelausstellung von Eric Emery und Aurelio Kopainig.

Schmutzige Spuren überziehen die weissen Wände des Substituts. Die eine trägt den Titel "Il Tamburello", die andere "Turn Five". Formel 1-Kenner werden jetzt sofort wissen, worum es geht. "Il Tamburello" heisst die Kurve in der der Rennfahrer Ayrton Senna 1994 tödlich verunglückt ist, "Turn Five" die Stelle an der Jacques Villeneuve 2006 am Canadian Grand Prix einen Unfall hatte. Eric Emery liess die Spuren von einem Graffitikünstler nach Bildern aus dem Internet aufsprayen. Read more...

Die Videoarbeiten der deutsch-polnischen Videokünstlerin Magdalena von Rudy thematisieren häufig menschliche Identitätsprobleme, deren innere Spannung, durch die feinfühlig aufeinander abgestimmte Gegenüberstellung von Kommunikation (Sprache, Geräusch, Körpersprache, Mimik) und selbst gefertigten Bildern, den Betrachter in ihren Bann zieht. Read more...

Frank Badur, Ronald de Bloeme, Gabriela Fridriksdottir, Nuria Fuster, Max Gimblett, Adler Guerrier, Prudencio Irazabal, Mahony, Stefana McClure, Judy Millar, Ad Reinhardt, Ragna Robertsdottir, Sophia Schama, Jörg Scheibe, Fabian Seiz

Hamish Morrison Galerie is pleased to announce "Edges of Darkness", an exhibition of works that are exploring ways of representation using black, in painting, sculpture and mixed media.

This group show features artists whose names have become synonymous with black such as Ad Reinhardt, as well as others who have seldom ventured into the realm of darkness - most strikingly Spanish painter Prudencio Irazabal, whose focus on light and colour has been the antithesis. Read more...

Goff + Rosenthal is pleased to present two new videos by Oliver Pietsch.

Each of Oliver Pietsch's video works is a montage of both new and historic film. Pietsch combines widely recognized and obscure material into trenchant and complicated explorations of human emotion.

Meticulously extracting short sequences of film footage from historic sources, Hollywood blockbusters, documentaries as well as independent cinema and combining the recycled edits with an accompanying soundtrack, Pietsch's reinterpretation intrinsically creates a new narrative. Read more...