Ilya and Emilia Kabakov had set their Strange City under the glass-and-steel passages of Grand Palais. Commissioned by the Monumenta, the exhibition proposes a double total installation.
Throughout the summer and autumn, the Serpentine Galleries will once again present Park Nights, an annual series of live art events, incorporating poetry, music, film, literature and performance. It takes place on selected Friday evenings in the Serpentine Pavilion 2014.
The works of a familiar face from the recent past are paying London a visit to mark the centenary anniversary of their creator’s birth. Despite his initial training as an architectural draughtsman, Lynn Chadwick is known today as a sculptor.
Rapidly becoming not only a central part of the Edinburgh Festival’s programme but a vital creative hub for the city’s all-year-round cultural scene, Summerhall unveils its strongest line-up to date.
Main Prize winner Sybille Neumeyer presents her mesmerising installation, Song For the Last Queen, within the group exhibition that also features Student Prize Winner Harriet Lewars.
Born in 1986 in St Petersburg, photographer Uldus Bakhtiozina has long been impacted by her Russian heritage. Working on a new book that explores the fairy tales of pagan Russia, Bakhtiozina looks for the stories behind the image.
As curator of a new Hayward Touring exhibition, artist Jeremy Deller, who represented Britain in last year’s Venice Biennale, takes a look at the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British popular culture and its persisting influence at the Laing Art Gallery.
The 14th Architecture Biennale is this year being curated by Dutch architect and theorist Rem Koolhaas, who has chosen the title Fundamentals. A total of 65 countries are exhibiting in the historic pavilions spread across the Giardini, the Arsenale, and the city of Venice.
The title of the exhibition exploring artist Hilma af Klint at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark is perfectly fitting, referring to both the core of her practice and her role as an artist.
Hauser & Wirth presents an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles based artist, Sterling Ruby. Possessed of a profound material sensibility, Ruby’s art speaks in a language inspired by sub-cultural phenomena ranging from urban gangs, and prison systems, to craft and the history of quilt-making.
START art fair is limited to 44 young galleries showcasing artists from around the world. It offers exhibitors a global platform to display their artists’ work at an important stage in their development.
Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago illuminates how the ideas at the heart of Mexican Surrealist Frida Kahlo’s paintings still resonate with contemporary artists around the world.
This solo exhibition by Paris-based Lebanese painter Walid El Masri reflects a departure from the artist’s ongoing Chair series. In this work an inanimate object provided a point of entry for meditative contemplations on life.
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is open for entries, presenting a fantastic opportunity for established and emerging writers to showcase their poetry and short fiction to international audiences.
Quirkism II, ran throughout May at Ovada, Oxford. The exhibition showcased analytical and confessional works by a number of artists that are at once challenging and exciting.
GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design is a pioneering institution bringing new insights into Russian art, design and culture. This summer GRAD presents Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain, an exhibition examining the changing face of Soviet design from the 1917 Revolutions to Perestroika.
This exhibition introduces four international artists to the UK for the first time: Ruby Oyinyechi Amanze, Douglas Rodrigo Rada, Helo Sanvoy and Shoshanna Weinberger have all exhibited frequently across the globe and this summer will present their work in London at Tiwani Contemporary.
This year PHotoEspaña will focus on Spanish photography, highlighting the rich energy and diversity offered by photographers across the generations. Now in its 17th edition, the festival is an extensive affair, showcasing 440 artists.
To add to its two existing locations, Skarstedt opened a new gallery space on the 8 May. Situated in the heart of Chelsea in New York, this gallery joins another on New York’s Upper East Side and one in London, UK.
