Susanne Kühn at the Lippische Kunstverein

Susanne Kühn
Solo Exhibition
Kunstverein Lippe
Opening: 04/11/10

Presenting a new selection of paintings, Susanne Kuehn will have a solo exhibition at Kunstverein Lippe in Detmold, Germany opening on April 11, 2010.

Scott Hunt in The Morning News

Scott Hunt was recently interviewed by The Morning News, for the full interview click here.

Scott Hunt News

Scott Hunt has been busy recently with a group show with Joe Biel and Cornelia Renz, Exquisite Corpse, which is currently on view at Cream Contemporary in Berlin. The show features the above image "An Homage to Hugh Steers", an artist whose work has influenced Hunt and who is the subject of an online exhibition which Hunt curated for Visual AIDS gallery.
Furthermore, his work was recently featured in a group exhibition at Wartburg College's Waldemar A. Schmidt Art Gallery:

Ahmed Alsoudani reviewed in Art in America

Ahmed Alsoudani's exhibition at Voss Strasse 33, in Berlin, has just been reviewed on Art in America's website.

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Type A in Art in America

This month's Art in America includes a long feature on Type A.

Oliver Pietsch at the The Flat

The Inner Space
The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan
01/12/2009 - 02/13/2010

Oliver Pietsch's film "The Shape of Things" will be on view at The Flat in Milan until mid February.

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Simon English - Galerie Volker Diehl

SIMON ENGLISH: English Painting 2009-2010 (Below the Belt)
Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
11/21/2009 - 01/15/2010

Simon English's new paintings will also be on show at Galerie Volker Diehl until mid January.

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Simon English at the Essl Museum of Contemporary Art

ASPECTS OF COLLECTING
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MOT MS MSU STÄDEL TATE
20/11/09 – 28/02/10
Opening: 19 Nov 2009, 7.30 p.m.


On the occasion of its 10th anniversary in 2009, the Essl Museum has invited ten international museums to take part in the exhibition project >ASPECTS OF COLLECTING<. All participating institutions and museums received a certain budget and were asked to acquire works of art they considered interesting and significant. The selection was made by the respective museum directors or curators. There were no conditions imposed, there was only the recommendation to focus on contemporary art. The Essl Museum will also contribute its own acquisition scheme. The selected sets of works will be presented in an exhibition at the Essl Museum and will then be made available to the individual museums as permanent loans.

The project partners were primarily selected on the basis of personal contacts established by the art collector Karlheinz Essl, who considered it important to invite not only institutions in Western Europe, but wanted to involve renowned museums with very different cultural and socio-political backgrounds. The wish to enhance future networking and co-operation and foster intercultural exchanges is one of the main driving forces of the project.

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iona rozeal brown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

iona rozeal brown
On view January 29th, 2010 through May 16th, 2010

ON VIEW in the William D. Ginn Gallery and Dr. Gerald and Phyllis Seltzer Rotunda Gallery

Organized by MOCA Cleveland

Curated by Megan Lykins Reich, Director of Education and Associate Curator

Recipient of the 2009 Joyce Award, this exhibition features recent and newly commissioned work by Washington D.C.-based artist, iona rozeal brown, who examines the globalization and appropriation of hip-hop culture in vibrant large-scale acrylic paintings. Sparked by her interest in ganguro, a trend in the late 1990's among Japanese teenagers (mostly girls) who were infatuated with looking like African-American hip-hop stars, brown integrates hip-hop's stylistic motifs into the compositional framework of Japan's most illustrious modern artistic tradition: ukiyo-e printmaking. Connecting hip-hop's material culture to the opulent ukiyo-e world of geishas, samurais, and Kabuki actors, brown reveals the malleable, polymorphic nature of history, culture, and identity.

This exhibition will feature a commission of new paintings referencing prints from the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. In addition, rozeal brown will be working with select area high school students* in January 2010 to design and paint wooden Japanese screens that will be exhibited in our Rotunda gallery.

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Melanie Manchot at Whitechapel

13 January - 14 March 2010
Outset Project Gallery (Gallery 5)
& 176 / Zabludowicz Collection Project Gallery (Gallery 6)


Drawing on traditions of group portraiture at public street parties, Melanie Manchot’s new work explores individual and collective identity through photography and film.

For this commission, Manchot has worked with residents of Cyprus Street, east London, to hold a street party and make a new film. She documents this event with a single tracking shot, capturing residents as they gather in front of the camera. The film bridges still and moving image, to look at the process of forming and dissolving a group portrait. It asks questions about what it means to form a community: both through the collaboration between residents and artist for the party, and in the relationships captured on film among the participants.

The film is shown alongside a new series of photographs made with the residents and a display of archive footage of street parties, such as peace parties in 1919 and 1945. Celebration (Cyprus Street) is part of the Gallery’s Education Programme, which commissions artists and explores the relationships between the Gallery, public spaces and community.

Melanie Manchot is a London-based artist working with photography, film and video.

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