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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Ahmed Alsoudani Vossstrasse Exhibition

Sadly, Ahmed Alsoudani's exhibition in Berlin had to close early. Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to Vossstrasse, it was a fantastic opening and exhibition. If you were unable to see it in person here are a few photos to enjoy!

Type A at the Tang

Type A "Barrier" is on view at The Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, through January, 2nd.

Ain Cocke -- 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Ain Cocke is featured in the current show at the 21C Museum Hotel in Louisville, KY. The show, entitled Creating Identity: Portraits Today, includes Ain's painting Das Geheimnis des Garten. The group show also features art by Kenhinde Wiley, Chuck Close, Yinka Shonibare, Vik Munix, and Catherine Opie, among others. The exhibition will be open until April 2010.

Titus Kaphar at Roberts & Tilton

tryharder blog has posted images of Titus Kaphar's current show at Roberts & Tilton in L.A. Click here for more details.

Mont Blanc Prize awarded to Chiharu Shiota

The Montblanc brand is historically and naturally bound to artistic creation, to the art of writing, of expressing thoughts and staging them. This intellectual dimension of the brand is part of its genes and did not stop developing through its products but also through its communication in its widest meaning. It opened itself at multiple artistic forms as classical music, opera, contemporary painting, and more recently cinema and photography.

Montblanc supports numerous projects in those different domains. Particularly through its Cultural Foundation which rewards every year, since 1992, illustrious Arts sponsors in 11 different countries, of which France of course.

It was thus natural to sponsor the Mont Blanc Docks Art fair prize which distinguishes the best of contemporary artistic creation in such eclectic domains.

Chiharu Shiota, the winner of this year's award, will have an exhibition in October in the new shop of the brand, Place Vendôme, in Paris.

The committee, specially joined together for this occasion, is:

Paul Ardenne, art critic and French curator - Paris

Marc Blondeau, modern and contemporary art expert - Geneva

Olivier Houg, Olivier Houg Galerie director, Docks Art fair art director - Lyon

Hélène Kelmachter, cultural attaché of the French embassy in Japan - Tokyo

Ingrid Roosen, worldwide director of the cultural affairs at Mont Blanc - Germany

Kevin Francis Gray in Quebec

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Type A Opening at G+R

Fall opening season is beginning in Chelsea. G+R will open with a new installation by the artist duo Type A on September 10th. They've been hard at work for the past month installing a complex maze of hanging plumb bobs in the front gallery space. The final result looks fantastic -- stop by next Thursday evening to see the work and chat with Adam and Andrew.

Jeremy Earhart Collaborates with Designer Tracy Feith

Jeremy has been working with Tracy Feith on a few different exciting projects:

Jeremy's artwork can be seen in the window of Tracy Feith's Williamsburg shop, located at 64 Grand Street. More details to follow, but the artist has produced a line of apparel (t-shirts, sweatshirts, shorts, etc.) featuring his signature graphics that is for sale at Feith's Williamsburg and The Surf Lodge (Montauk, NY) retail locations.


Next up: TEEPEES. The artist recently look a trip out to Montauk, NY with Tracy Feith to participate in the designer's project for the Surf Lodge Teepee Collaborative. Each teepee will be auctioned off, with the proceeds going to support Montauk Skate Park. The teepees will be up until mid-summer, so take a look on your next weekend trip out to the Hamptons.

Check out the construction process (Jeremy can be spotted a few times throughout the video):

London Times Reviews Hayward Gallery Show

Walking in My Mind at the Hayward Gallery, London SE1
Joanna Pitman

The final room in the Hayward’s summer show, Walking in My Mind, contains an installation by a young Japanese artist, Chiharu Shiota. She is one of ten international artists invited to construct installations depicting the contents of their minds, and Shiota’s visualisation of her mental landscape is troubling.

She has filled a large room with a tangled web of black woollen threads, woven around a central group of five white dresses. The threads are densely spun, knotted in and out of one another in a spreading tangle, sticking arbitrarily to the floor and ceiling and quivering like the work of a giant malevolent spider. A narrow tunnel is left unfilled, allowing the visitor to creep around and view her thought processes, her networks of neurons and synapses from the inside.

Shiota has been creating these black webs since 1994 to exorcise her fears. She tells me that she grapples daily with powerful fears of the dark and of death, with childhood fears and anxieties about her identity and her future, and finally, with worries about losing her insecurities, which are what fire her artistic imagination. It is shocking being confronted with such tangible terror.

The curators Mami Kataoka and Stephanie Rosenthal’s concept for this exhibition came from their visualisation of the gallery as a giant head that invites visitors to wander around in the recesses of its mind. Their chosen artists — Yayoi Kusama, Charles Avery, Thomas Hirschhorn, Bo Christian Larsson, Mark Manders, Yoshitomo Nara, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Keith Tyson and Shiota — have constructed some intimately revealing works that allow us the privilege of creeping around inside the privacy of these creative heads.

Hirschhorn has built a giant fantasy brain, Cavemanman, out of curving tunnels and a series of chambers lined with adhesive tape in which you can explore, while physically and mentally losing your way. Inside, there is a wealth of data from Hirschhorn’s mind, philosophical books, girly pin-ups, clocks, piles of detritus in overflowing bins; and throughout there are groups of mannequins wrapped in silver foil, their brains connected with foil arteries.

Kusama, a leading figure in Japanese postwar avant-garde art, has made an installation of mirrors and balloons decorated with red and white polka dots. In this strange, hallucinatory chamber, the visitor quickly loses orientation and perhaps experiences some of the dizzying qualities of Kusama’s singular life.

This show is fascinating and illuminating, and as you emerge, you cannot help wondering how your own mind might be visualised in 3-D.

Hayward Gallery (southbankcentre.co.uk/walking), from today to Sept 6

Isca Greenfield-Sanders in Marie Claire Italy