International Programme
Current, upcoming and recent institutional exhibitions, commissions and artist projects
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June 9 2021
Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta public opening 2021
Set in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Little Sparta is Ian Hamilton Finlay’s unique garden and life's work. This year's annual public opening takes place between June and September 2019 for pre-booked visits. Stonypath, Dunsyre -
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June 8 2021
Just unveiled in Stockholm: Life Rings by Elmgreen & Dragset
Life Rings is a new permanent outdoor sculpture by Elmgreen & Dragset. The tower of lifebuoys stretches up eight metres high by the waterside at Royal Djurgården. Stockholm, Sweden -
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June 7 2021
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami will feature in the Hayward Gallery’s major contemporary painting survey this autumn
Titled Mixing It Up: Painting Today, the exhibition (9 September–12 December 2021) features 31 artists whose works entrance, transfix and challenge us. Hayward Gallery, London -
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June 4 2021
Coming to Tate Britain in July: a major Paula Rego retrospective
The exhibition (7 July–24 October 2021) will tell the story of this artist’s extraordinary life, highlighting the personal nature of much of her work and the socio-political context in which it is rooted. It will also reveal the artist’s broad range of references, from comic strips to history painting. Tate Britain, London -
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May 28 2021
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years, now open at York Art Gallery
The touring exhibition (28 May–5 September 2021) developed by the Holburne Museum in Bath, is the first to celebrate Grayson Perry’s earliest forays into the art world and re-introduces the works he made between 1982 and 1994. York Art Gallery -
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May 28 2021
Ali Banisadr features in the V&A’s major new exhibition Epic Iran
The exhibition (opening 29 May, booking to 12 September 2021) explores five thousand years of art, design and culture and shines a light on one of the greatest historic civilisations. V&A, London -
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May 22 2021
Marine: Ian Hamilton Finlay, now open at City Art Centre, Edinburgh
This major exhibition (22 May–3 October 2021) focuses on the maritime theme in Finlay’s work. It was a central element of his art, and one to which he returned throughout his life. City Art Centre, Edinburgh -
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May 21 2021
Opening this summer in Manchester – Maria Nepomuceno: Refloresta!
On view beneath the Portico Library's Regency-period glass dome (1 July–11 October 2021) works by the artist will be shown alongside natural history books and archive materials from the Library's nineteenth-century collection illustrating Manchester's international and colonial connections during the city's formative years. The Portico Library Manchester -
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May 19 2021
Now re-opened – Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective at Gropius Bau, Berlin
Titled A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe, the artist's first large-scale retrospective in Germany takes place 23 April–1 August 2021. Gropius Bau, Berlin -
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May 19 2021
Grayson’s Art Club now open at Manchester Art Gallery
An exhibition of works selected by Grayson Perry during Grayson’s Art Club, the popular Channel 4 TV series. On view at Manchester Art Gallery from 19 May–31 October 2021. Manchester Art Gallery -
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May 18 2021
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms at Tate Modern
The focused exhibition (18 May 2021–12 June 2022) is a rare chance to experience two of the artist’s immersive mirror room installations juxtaposed with photos and footage of early performance works and studio happenings. Tate Modern, London -
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May 18 2021
On view until 30 May – Sarah Sze: Night into Day at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Final weeks to visit Sarah Sze: Night into Day. For her second solo show at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, internationally renowned artist Sarah Sze presents a fully immersive installation that transforms the visitor’s experience of Jean Nouvel’s glass building. Fondation Cartier, Paris -
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May 18 2021
Portable Sculpture featuring Do Ho Suh, now open at Henry Moore Institute
This major exhibition (18 May–29 August 2021) brings together fifteen artists, with work from 1934 to the present day on display and explores sculptures that are deliberately designed to fold up, or pack down, or that have been made while on the move. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds -
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May 13 2021
Edinburgh Art Festival in partnership with National Galleries of Scotland announces the UK and European premiere of Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour
This ten-screen film installation (on view at Modern One from 29 July–10 October 2021) offers a poetic meditation on the life and times of Frederick Douglass, the visionary African American writer, abolitionist, and a freed slave, who spent two years in Edinburgh in the 1840s campaigning across Scotland, England, and Ireland for freedom and social justice. Modern One, Edinburgh -
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May 7 2021
Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Mutu's powerful exhibition (7 May–7 November 2021) at the Legion of Honor, a museum built for the showcase of European art from antiquity through Impressionism and presided over by Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, aims to spur, 'a purposeful examination of art histories, mythologies, and the techniques of archiving and remembering.' Legion of Honor, San Francisco -
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April 21 2021
Elmgreen & Dragset – Short Story at Copenhagen Contemporary
With their installation Short Story (21 April–24 October 2021), the Danish-Norwegian artist duo Emgreen & Dragset have transformed Copenhagen Contemporary’s Hall 2 into the setting of a tennis court. Copenhagen, Denmark -
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April 10 2021
KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature at New York Botanical Garden
In this major exhibition (10 April–31 October 2021) Kusama will reveal her lifelong fascination with the natural world, beginning with her childhood spent in the greenhouses and fields of her family’s seed nursery. Spectacular installations across the 250-acre landscape will include Hymn of Life – Tulips and Narcissus Garden, as well as the debut of new monumental sculptures. New York Botanical Garden -
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March 22 2021
Alice Neel: People Come First
This ambitious survey (on view 22 March–1 August 2021) positions Neel as one of the century’s most radical painters, a champion of social justice whose longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her life as well as her art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -
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March 12 2021
Final few weeks: Jules de Balincourt – After the Gold Rush at CAC Málaga
The exhibition (12 March–23 May 2021) features more than forty paintings created over the past decade. Málaga, Spain -
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March 4 2021
The Royal Academy of Arts announces revised 2022 dates for it major exhibition of Milton Avery
The first comprehensive survey of Avery’s work in Europe, the exhibition (which will now take place 16 July–16 October 2022) brings together a selection of around 70 paintings from the 1930s–1960s that are among his most celebrated. These works typically feature scenes of daily life, including portraits of loved ones and serene landscapes from his visits to Maine and Cape Cod. Royal Academy of Arts, London -
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March 3 2021
Now live: The Artist’s Mother: Lucie and Daryll, featuring Lucian Freud and Chantal Joffe
IMMA, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, presents a virtual exhibition (3 March–8 August 2021) available to view on Vortic and at imma.ie, followed by a gallery display of the pastels, which will be available to visit in the Freud Centre when current Covid-19 restrictions are lifted. -
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February 25 2021
Hernan Bas: Choose Your Own Adventure at Space K, Seoul
The artist's first solo museum exhibition in Korea (25 February–27 May 2021) features works from 2007 to the present, including five new paintings. Space K, Seoul -
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February 8 2021
Now extended until May 2021 – Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance at IMMA, Dublin
This major exhibition (18 September 2020–3 May 2021) spans Rego’s entire career from the 1960s, comprising more than 80 works, including paintings never seen before and works on paper from the artist’s family and close friends. IMMA, Dublin -
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February 5 2021
Elmgreen & Dragset: 2020 at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland is extended until 21 March 2021
Elmgreen & Dragset's major exhibition 2020 is now on view until 21 March 2021. EMMA, Finland -
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January 19 2021
Ali Banisadr features in A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean at Orlando Museum of Art
A collaboration between the Orlando Museum of Art and the American University in Cairo, the exhibition (29 January–2 May 2021) presents work by 21 US-based artists of Arab and Iranian heritage. Orlando Museum of Art, Florida, USA -
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January 5 2021
Installations by Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset open at Penn Station
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announces the opening of the new Moynihan Train Hall, along with three unprecedented site-specific art installations by Stan Douglas, artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, and Kehinde Wiley, counted among the most innovative and revered artists working today. Public Art Fund -
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January 2 2021
María Berrío: Esperando mientras la noche florece (Waiting for the Night to Bloom) at the Norton Museum of Art
The first survey (2 January–9 May 2021) of María Berrío’s art includes two new pieces. Berrío’s large-scale, brilliantly coloured collages are meticulously crafted from unique papers sourced from South America and Asia, especially Japan. Lush landscapes and modest domestic interiors are dominated by women who gaze directly at the viewer. The inaction of these ethereal and expressionless characters belies the turmoil and anxiety of their passage to their current surroundings while unflinching in the certainty of their presence. They also characterize Berrío’s own path. Her family history is a testament to the experiences which inspire her subject matter as an immigrant and independent woman in America. Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida -
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November 3 2020
Ali Banisadr: Ultramarinus – Beyond the Sea at Benaki Museum
The title of the exhibition (3 November 2020–31 January 2021) refers to Ultramarine, the blue colour pigment used as early as the Middle Ages, which was originally extracted from the gemstone lapis lazuli and is believed to encapsulate all shades of water and skies. Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece -
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October 22 2020
Ali Banisadr at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
A major exhibition of paintings by the artist (22 October 2020–14 February 2021). In addition, Banisadr has cruated a small selection of Wadsworth collection works that illuminate his artistic interests. Within the MATRIX gallery, Banisadr has assembled prints, drawings, paintings, and a construction dating from the 16th to the 20th century from a variety of cultures. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut -
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October 16 2020
Sarah Sze: Night into Day opens at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
For her second solo show at the Fondation Cartier, Sarah Sze will create an immersive exhibition (24 October 2020–7 March 2021) in dialogue with Jean Nouvel’s building. With two new works, she offers a reverie around the proliferation of images transforming our relationship to our environment. Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris -
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October 16 2020
Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water opens at The Shed
For her solo exhibition at The Shed (16 October 2020–11 April 2021), Howardena Pindell presents a number of works including Rope/Fire/Water, her first video in 25 years. The Shed, New York -
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September 11 2020
Howardena Pindell on view at Art Omi
Currently on view at Art Omi – Howardena Pindell (18 July – 1 November), a solo exhibition featuring photo collage and video works by the influential American artist. Pindell has since the 1970s examined a wide range of subject matter, from the personal and diaristic to the social and political. Ghent, NY -
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August 25 2020
Grayson Perry’s The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman goes on display at the British Museum
The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, an elaborate, richly decorated cast-iron coffin-ship, will be displayed alongside the striking 2,400-year-old Nereid Monument from 27 August 2020. British Museum, London -
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August 25 2020
Chantal Joffe: For Esme – with Love and Squalor, now open at Arnolfini, Bristol
The exhibition (3 September–22 November 2020) explores the intimate act of painting and portraiture. Taking its name from J.D. Salinger’s short story For Esmé – with Love and Squalor (1950) in which time hangs as heavy as the protagonist’s ‘enormous-faced chronographic-looking wristwatch’, the exhibition captures the changing faces across the years of Chantal and her daughter Esme, moving between mother and daughter, love and squalor, and the act of care and being cared for. Arnolfini, Bristol -
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August 19 2020
Carnegie Museum of Art’s online exhibition series continues with Doug Aitken’s migration
The Open Museum, 19 August–15 Nov 2020: The Carnegie Museum of Art launches its free online exhibition screening of 'migration' from its collection. Carnegie Museum of Art -
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July 30 2020
A new exhibition opens at the Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo
THE VISION OF FANTASY THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN IS THIS SPLENDOR (30 July 2020–29 March 2021) features works created over the past ten years. Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo -
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July 27 2020
Tate Modern reopens, featuring Sarah Sze’s installation Seamless
Seamless, 1999, (on display until 22 November 2020) incorporates functional, human-scale items, for example a ladder. Other handmade elements, such as tiny bridges made from matchsticks, use a scale that relates to fictional miniature worlds. Spiralling structures also suggest the microscopic scale of molecular science. They resemble the double helix shape of DNA, molecules that determine the growth and reproduction of all living things. Tate Modern, London -
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July 26 2020
Escalations, an exhibition by Conrad Shawcross at Château La Coste, is extended until 6 September 2020
Situated at three sites spread across the grounds, the exhibition (extended until 6 September 2020) explores the artists continued relationship with geometry and philosophy, physics and metaphysics. Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France -
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July 26 2020
Works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby feature in Inner Spaces at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
The seventh edition of the Biennial of Painting (26 July–18 October 2020) features works that depict a wide range of inner spaces, among them the studio, the domestic interior, and the inner realm of the imagination. Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium -
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July 13 2020
Reopen and extended – Isaac Julien features in Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at the Barbican
This major exhibition (now extended to 23 August 2020) considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day. Barbican Art Gallery, London -
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July 9 2020
Paula Rego – The Scream of Imagination at MACNA
The exhibition (9 July–18 October 2020) has as its starting point a number of works by Paula Rego in the Serralves Collection, completed between 1975 and 2004. MACNA – Museu de Arte Contemporânea Nadir Afonso, Chaves, Portugal -
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July 8 2020
Now reopen at the Foundling Museum – Portraying Pregnancy, featuring Chantal Joffe
This major exhibition (now extended until 23 August 2020) explores representations of pregnancy through portraits from the past 500 years. Foundling Museum, London -
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June 29 2020
Doron Langberg participates in Art on the Grid
Work by Doron Langberg installed across New York City as part of Art on the Grid. NYC, New York -
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June 27 2020
New permanent commission Schism by Conrad Shawcross, opening at Château La Coste
On the grounds of the estate, Shawcross has created a new permanent and monumental commission for Château La Coste. Schism, 2020, continues the artist's research into the peculiar geometric, philosophical, and even political potential of the tetrahedron. Château La Coste -
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June 26 2020
Now open – Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden (1966–2020) at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Narcissus Garden dates back to 1966, when Kusama first participated in the 33rd Venice Biennale. It has now been installed in a version adapted to Louisiana's Lake Garden. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art -
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June 18 2020
Tal R: Animals and People at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
The centrepiece of the exhibition (18 June 2020–17 January 2021) is a series of new bronze sculptures, which Tal R has been working on over the past few years. This is the first time the works have been presented together. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen -
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June 10 2020
Rescheduled for October 2022 – Alice Neel: Un regard engagé
The Centre Pompidou's major retrospective (2022) highlighting the political and social commitment of the painter. Centre Pompidou, Paris -
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May 2 2020
Work by Conrad Shawcross goes on view at Salisbury Cathedral – take a virtual tour of the exhibition and read a digital copy of the catalogue
In celebration of the 800th anniversary of the laying of its foundation stones, Salisbury Cathedral presents the exhibition Celebrating 800 years of Spirit and Endeavour. Conrad Shawcross’s monumental sculpture Formation I (The Dappled Light of the Sun) is featured as part of a series of sculptures on the grounds of the cathedral. Salisbury, Wiltshire -
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March 7 2020
Francesca Woodman: On Being an Angel opens at C/O Berlin
On Being an Angel (7 March–6 June 2020) is the first German exhibition of a cross-section of Woodman's work, from small-format black-and-white and rare color photographs to the late, larger-than-life works created with experimental techniques such as the diazotype. C/O Berlin -
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March 4 2020
A new exhibition, ZERO IS INFINITY, ZERO and Yayoi Kusama, opens at the Yayoi Kusama Museum
The first group exhibition at the Yayoi Kusama Museum (5 March–31 May 2020) focuses on Kusama's activity in Europe during the 1960s and introduces the work of the artist network ZERO, first initiated by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene in Düsseldorf in 1958. Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo -
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March 1 2020
Conrad Shawcross features in Under the Stars at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
The exhibition (21 March–20 September 2020) presents examples of stargazing and mapping by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, highlighting the commonalities and connections in our shared attempts to understand the night sky and our place in relation to it. Sydney, Australia -
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February 25 2020
María Berrío is featured in Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020 at NMSU Art Museum
The inaugural exhibition (28 February–28 May 2020) of the new University Art Museum (UAM) at New Mexico State University (NMSU) aims to expand and enrich the compelling conversations regarding motherhood in today’s socio-political climate. New Mexico State University Art Museum -
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February 24 2020
Wangechi Mutu is featured in the Centre Pompidou’s exhibition Neurones/Les Intelligences Simulées
The exhibition (26 February–20 April 2020) highlights the continuity of research by artists, architects, designers and musicians alongside that developed by major scientific laboratories. Centre Pompidou, Paris -
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February 17 2020
Grayson Perry, Wangechi Mutu and Francesca Woodman feature in Bodyscapes at The Israel Museum
Examining the relationship between nature and culture through the prism of the body, this exhibition (21 February–3 October 2020) brings together historical sources and artworks ranging from prehistory to contemporary art in a variety of media. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem -
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February 16 2020
Isaac Julien and Do Ho Suh feature in When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art opening at Minneapolis Institute of Art
The exhibition (23 February–24 May 2020) considers how contemporary artists are responding to the migration, immigration, and displacement of peoples today. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota -
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February 7 2020
Idris Khan creates a unique work for Fine Cell Work’s Human Touch exhibition and sale
This exhibition (Sotheby's, London, 26 February-3 March 2020; bidding from 12 February 2020) and sale of works a ground-breaking collaboration between international contemporary artists and stitchers working in prisons, trained by the leading charity and social enterprise Fine Cell Work. Sotheby's, London -
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February 6 2020
As reported in The New York Times, Seattle Asian Art Museum reopens, featuring an installation by Do Ho Suh
Reopening on 8 February 2020, the newly renovated and expanded Asian Art Museum offers a thematic exploration of art from the world’s largest continent. Seattle, Washington -
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February 5 2020
Coming soon – Time Present: Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, featuring Idris Khan
The exhibition (21 March 2020–8 February 2021) presents a broad spectrum of international photography collected by Deutsche Bank over the course of four decades. Palais Populaire, Berlin -
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February 4 2020
Sarah Sze: Images in Debris at MOCA Toronto
Constellatory, monumental, intimate and immersive, Images in Debris (on view 6 February–10 May 2020) is one in a series of sculptures by Sarah Sze where light, movement, images and architecture coalesce into a single, precarious equilibrium. Toronto, Canada -
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February 3 2020
Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger features in The Imagination of Time at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
The exhibition, held as part of Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (7–23 February 2020) considers notions of time as explored in art and imaging. It marks Doppelgänger's debut in Asia. Tokyo, Japan
