Liverpool Biennial 2012: Full Programme Announced
The Liverpool Biennial, now in its seventh incarnation, is billed as the largest contemporary art festival in the UK. This year’s programme was announced today by Biennial director, Sally Tallant
The Liverpool Biennial, now in its seventh incarnation, is billed as the largest contemporary art festival in the UK. This year’s programme was announced today by Biennial director, Sally Tallant
Much of Lara Favaretto’s work alludes to the casualties of modern life, often referring to the body and the natural environment through mechanical and industrial forms that change and degrade.
Congratulations to Julia Vogl who has been selected as this year’s winner of the Catlin Art Prize. Let’s Hang Out invites visitors to create a communal area by selecting coloured carpet titles.
It is timely that Gazelli Art House pairs their new exhibition Family Matters with works by Jane McAdam Freud as interest in the Freud family peaks.
Printin’, tucked next to Diego Rivera’s solo exhibition, runs in conjunction with the larger print survey Print/Out currently showing at MoMA, New York.
Buren has punctuated the last 40 years of art with unforgettable interventions, critical texts, thought-provoking public art projects and collaborations with artists from different generations.
Project Space Leeds stands close to the banks of the River Aire. Swollen by the recent deluge, the river courses with an unsettling energy sufficient to inspire an ancient sense of animism.
The human urge to reach for the impossible and aeronautical innovation are the twin sources of inspiration behind Flights of Fancy, Tatton Park’s third biennial of contemporary art.
Nine rooms in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich are dedicated to 25 selected works by 20 international artists in the exhibit In the Space of the Beholder – Contemporary Sculpture.
Alex Prager (b. 1979) is an American photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles and New York City. This exhibition features a selection of colour photographs.
One of the current shows at Ikon Gallery is Sarah Browne’s How to Use Fool’s Gold. This is the first UK solo exhibition by the Dublin-based artist and presents a survey of film and sculptural works.
In preparation for the Olympics and in conjunction with a trend of promoting British culture, the Victoria & Albert Museum explores the many facets of British contributions to modern design.
David Wightman’s first exposure to art was via Manchester Art Gallery where he became captivated by the pre-Raphaelite collection and worlds of William Holman-Hunt and John Waterhouse.
Despite having gained a considerable reputation across Europe, and having won the $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize in New York (2010), this is Hans-Peter Feldmann’s first show in a public gallery in London.
Jim Dow’s images focus on the passage of time as it is recorded in landscapes from North Dakota to Great Britain to Argentina. Using an 8 x 10 inch view camera, he turns his lens to roadside signs.
Eva and Franco Mattes’ current exhibition was Anonymous, untitled, dimensions, variable on Wednesday, Building Stories on Thursday, and today’s exhibition title remains to be confirmed.
El Anatsui is recognised as one of Africa’s foremost contemporary artists. Known for his signature bottle cap sculptures, his practice is punctuated by works that utilise a variety of mediums.
Cartwright Hall sits in the award-winning Lister Park – an appropriate venue in terms of its relatively close proximity to the birthplace of the artist.
Gillian Wearing’s early investigations of public faces and private lives predate Big Brotherand Twitter, and in this Whitechapel survey the work appears both pioneering and slightly archaic.
