Pavilion of Belgium, Giardini, Venice, Italy

Venice Biennale 2013: Berlinde De Bruyckere: Cripplewood

Berlinde De Bruyckere Kreupelhout Cripplewood, 2012 2013 MirjamDevriendt5

For the Belgian Pavilion in Venice, De Bruyckere has conceived a new site-specific installation that builds upon her existing oeuvre but derives its potency from connections to the historical context of Venice. She has invited acclaimed writer J.M. Coetze

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WEILS, Contemporary Art Centre, Av. Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Brussels

Tauba Auerbach: Tetrachromat

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Tetrachromat shines a light on several series from New York-based, San Fransican born, Tauba Auerbach's oeuvre - Evelyn Simons reviews.

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JVA at Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London, SE1 0LN

Jerwood Encounters: After Hours

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An exhibition of personal work by graphic designers at Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Encounters: After Hours exhibits work created free from the constraints of a client, brief or fee. Ariane Belisle reviews.

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Sucession, Association of Visual Artists, Friedrichstraße 12. A-1010 Vienna

Unrest of Form. Imaging the Political Subject

Banu Cennetoglu Shiri Zinn Pavilion II Within Limits 19921 1995 Unruhe der Form Unrest of Form Secession 2013 photo Oliver Ottenschlaeger

Sucession, Vienna presents the group show 'Unrest of Form. Imaging the Political Subject,' in which its participants ask: how can the art of today foster resistance against economic structures in which it participates itself'

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My Little Paradise, talk live from Middelheim Museum, Belgium On the occasion of the exhibition My Little Paradise, the Middelheim Museum organizes an artist talk with the participating artists. In 2012 the Middelheim Museum added a new exhibition area to its grounds ? the Hortiflora flower garden (previously part of the Nachtegalen Park), a formal garden concealed behind a screen of dense foliage. This year the museum?s summer exhibition, My Little Paradise, puts the Hortiflora firmly in the spotlight, for the garden?s design corresponds to the idea of the hortus conclusus, the enclosed garden which in art and literature has been laden with meanings since the Middle Ages. Today the enclosed garden has become an ordinary part of our everyday environment, the perfect place to create a little paradise of our own. But what?s attractive to one is banal, even disturbing, to another. Seven national and international artists reflect about the art historical significance of the garden of Eden and about the contemporary, social significance of a paradise. My Little Paradise is a group exhibition, curated by Hans Op de Beeck and Sara Weyns.
Café Curio Talks: Collecting, live from Camden Arts Center, Wednesday 22 May, 7.00 ? 8.30pm BST A series of short talks presenting very different conceptions of what collecting can be and the motivation to bring things together. Dr. Gillian Ragsdale discusses the psychological foundations of collecting and their relationship to an impulse to hoard Jonathan Allen, artist and Associate Curator of The Magic Circle Museum, London presents a history of The Magic Circle?s collection, its significance and current use. Althea Greenan, Curator of the Women's Art Library, Goldsmith's College presents a brief history of the collection and considers how collections can create a self perpetuating life of their own.

waterside contemporary, 2 Clunbury Str, London, N1 6TT

aCtivaTe aMok, not a causaL chain

MG 2765 CHI029 Chisa Tkacova Nom de guerre

Even before I enter the gallery, through the window from the rundown street outside, an enormous hand is visible. It rests on the floor and stops just shy of the ceiling. It is balled into a tight fist and wears a flat shade of crimson nail varnish...

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