Brussels Art Guide - May

I.
Exhibition title: BORIS TELLEGEN, a friendly takeover
Artist: Boris Tellegen
Venue: Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (MIMA), Quai du Hainaut 41, 1080 Bruxelles
Dates: Until May 28, 2017

A monumental and playful installation in situ, spread over 3 floors, crosses 20 years of work, from the street to the museum, by Boris Tellegen aka Delta, the “Dutch Master” of graffiti.

II.
Exhibition title: YVES KLEIN, LE THÉÂTRE DU VIDE
Artist: Yves Klein
Venue: BOZAR, Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles
Dates: Until August 20, 2017

After the prestigious Tate Liverpool, Bozar is hosting this exhibition by famous French artist Yves Klein. Klein became renowned thanks to his monochromatic works painted with the "international Klein blue". Like no one before him, his art expressed the idea of an infinite spirituality and his quest for the immaterial. Through his pictorial pieces and his spectacular performances, Yves Klein is considered to be a precursor of the Happening and Body Art movements. The exhibition presents outstanding pieces, some of which were never shown before, and offers to the public the possibility to discover this avant-garde artist.

III.
Exhibition title: POL BURY / TIME IN MOTION
Artist: Pol Bury
Venue: BOZAR, Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles
Dates: Until June 4 2017

The belgian artist Pol Bury (1922-2005) is one of the founders of Kinetic Art. He started as a painter influenced by Magritte, and was also part of the artistic groups Jeune Peinture belge and CoBrA. He then decided to follow his own artistic path. Fascinated by the art of Alexander Calder, Bury explored the medium of sculpture and integrated movement in his pieces Thanks to a profoundly personal work, with a strong surrealist influence and a great sense of innovation, he became a key player in the Paris and New York art scenes, thus gaining an international recognition. 

Warsaw Art Guide - May

May is your last call to see many exciting exhibitions in Warsaw, from small solo shows to larger ones.

I.
Exhibition title: THE BEGUILING SIREN IS THY CREST
Artist/s:Korakrit Arunanondchai, Evelyne Axell, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Zdzisław Beksiński, Louise Bourgeois, Eugène Brands, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Bernard Buffet, Claude Cahun, Liz Craft, Edith Dekyndt, Christian Dietrich, Leo Dohmen, Drexcyia and Abdul Qadim Haqq, Elmgreen & Dragset, Leonor Fini, Ellen Gallagher, Goltyr Painter, Justyna Górowska, Zdzisław Jasiński, Dorota Jurczak, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Birgit Jürgenssen, Tobias Kaspar, Marek Kijewski, Aldona Kopkiewicz and Mateusz Kula, Łukasz Korolkiewicz, Gina Litherland, Jacek Malczewski, Witek Orski, Sylvia Palacios Whitman, Pablo Picasso, Krzysztof Pijarski, Aleka Polis, Agnieszka Polska, Karol Radziszewski, Joanna Rajkowska, Carol Rama, Erna Rosenstein, Tejal Shah, Franciszek Siedlecki, Tomasz Sikorski, Penny Slinger, Juliana Snapper, Franz von Stuck, project „Warsaw’s Sirens” (Jacek Łagowski, Danuta Matloch, Katarzyna Opara, Aleksandra Schönthaler), Alina Szapocznikow, Stanisław Szukalski, Jerzy Bohdan Szumczyk, Wacław Szymanowski, Dorothea Tanning, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tunga, Anne Uddenberg, Aleksandra Waliszewska, Wojciech Wilczyk, Hannah Wilke, Ming Wong, Marcelo Zammenhoff, Anna Zaradny, Artur Żmijewski.
Venue: MUSEUM ON THE VISTULA/ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Dates: Until 18 June, 2017 

This is the first exhibition at the newly opened pavilion of Museum of Modern Art. The show, the first ever of this scale to discuss the siren, aims to portray and activate its potential as a symbol. 
It combines different takes on hybridity, national identity and mythology. The exhibition can be read on many levels, everyone will find something for themselves.

II.
Exhibition title: Aneta Grzeszykowska, Zofia Rydet
HEAD, SKIN, FACE
Artist/s: Aneta Grzeszykowska, Zofia Rydet
Venue: Raster Gallery
Dates: Until 20 May, 2017

The joint exhibition of works by Zofia Rydet (1911–1997) and Aneta Grzeszykow­ska (born 1974) is a show of two artists who use the camera to con­struct cap­tivating and rhetorically rich images of the female body. The two artists express a similar allure of over­coming the two-imensionality of photography, in both time and space. The exhibition presents unique photographic items by Rydet from her Trans­for­mations cycle, and heads of leather sewn by Grzeszykow­ska.

III.
Exhibition title: GORDON PARKS: I USE MY CAMERA AS A WEAPON
Artist/s: Gordon Parks
Venue: Zachęta - National Gallery of Art
Dates: Until 21 May, 2017

Gordon Parks was born as the fifteenth child of Mr. and Mrs. Parks, he had to fight for survival, for jobs, for means to support his family, and finally he fought for African American civil rights. This monographic exhibition shows photographs, which are not only iconic but also are an attempt of fighting for human rights. 

- by Zuzanna Zasacka

TLV Urban Art Guide - May

This May in Tel Aviv one can find plenty of amazing opportunities to take in street art at its best!

I.
Exhibition: Prettymess Collective
Venue: Beit Ha’ir
Dates: Until August 2017

In what can be deemed as an ambitious exhibition by many accounts, Prettymess, a collective composed of artists mostly active is the urban sphere, has taken over Beit Ha’ir. This summer the historic city hall of Tel Aviv will house an amazing variety of pieces ranging in theme, style and materials.
Hasayeret art tours will be giving two tours of the exhibition in Hebrew. For inquiries about English tours please contact at alternativetlv@gmail.com.

II.
Event: Alternative Tel Aviv pay as you like Florentin graffiti tour
Venue: Florentin, Tel Aviv
Date: May 26, 2017 11:00-12:30

While Alternative Tel Aviv usually provides boutique private tours, this summer we plan to offer open pay as you like tours in Florentin as a new monthly tradition. Our primary tour will take you through the street-art capital and lay down the leading characters in the street-art scene while visiting some of the city’s most iconic and beautiful pieces in the public space. To book spots for the tour contact at alternativetlv@gmail.com.

III.
Venue: Kiryat Hamelacha, HaAmal street

Until recently the two large buildings marking the entrance to the Tel Aviv up and coming studio and gallery area, Kiryat Hamelacha, were covered by two famous pieces by two famous local artists. But this genre has different rules and recently things changed. Two enormous pieces, a black horse by Klone and an abstract figure by Zero Cents now cover the buildings from top to bottom. Head there to see for yourself! 

Klone

Zero Cents

- by Cobi Krieger

Rome Art Guide - May

May is maybe my favourite month in Rome because it’s pretty warm but windy, it smells like flowers, it’s colorful and blossoming everywhere. The contemporary art scene is blossoming too so it’s easy to find some cool event or art show going on and everything is getting ready for the hot-touristy season up coming. 

I.
Exhibition title: Nature Forever
Artist: Piero Gilardi
Venue: The MAXXI 
Dates: Until October 15, 2017 

Pop art mixed with ecologist and political italian issues, this solo exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest artists of the late 1960s movement “Arte Povera” is first of all a deep comprehension of his carreer that was absolutely different from all the other artists of the same movement. Second, it’s really so much fun because of the many interactive installations which will challenge your sense of humor and even your capacity to understand the multiple social meanings behind.

II.
Exhibition title: Trilogia del silenzio, capitolo II (Trilogy of silence, chapter II)
Artist: Lee Madgwick
Venue: White Noise Gallery
Dates: Until May 31, 2017

After the great success of the project “Dismaland” with Banksy, Lee Madgwick shows his oil paintings in Rome for the first time. Lonely buildings, immersed in landscapes with no reference to time and space, recalls the atmosphere of De Chirico and the attitude of Hopper but in a brand new way. The sense of eternal stand-by of the exhibition offers a new point of view but with an extraordinary peace of mind.

III.
Exhibition title: Equivalences
Artist: Giuseppe Penone
Venue: Gagosian gallery
Dates: Until June 15, 2017 

Deeply poetic, Penone’s engagement with nature and time reveals the deepest power of art and this is what you feel when you move around his sculptures. The inner essence of nature is freed from the human aesthetic process of sculpturing, revealing a new sense of life.

Header Image: Paz Paloscia - White Noise Galler

- by Valentina Di Pietro

Vienna Art Guide - May

I.
Exhibition Title: The Secession Knot (5.1)
Artist: Jean-Luc Mouléne
Venue: Secession
Dates: Until June 18, 2017

„To every time its art. To art its freedom.“ The Vienna Secession is also known as the Union of Austrian Artist. It hosts an international program with solo and themed exhibitions. The Secession is a must-see. Next to the main exhibition hall you will find two exhibitions by Rosa Barba and Anoka Faruqee (until June 25, 2017).

Picture: Iris Ranzinger  ©  Secession 2017

II.
Exhibition title: Acting for the Camera
Artists: Trude Fleischmann, Rudolf Koppitz, Arnulf Rainer, Erwin Wurm etc.
Venue: Albertina
Dates: Until May 30, 2017


The Exhibition shows circa 120 works from Albertina´s Photographic Collection between 1850s and the present. The selection is divided between six thematic emphases: motion studies, models for artists, dance, picture stories, portraits of actresses and acors, and Viennese Actionist stagings of the body. Curated by Dr. Anna Hanreich

Foto: Rudolf Koppitz 1926 © Albertina

III.
Exhibition title: Lonely Old Slogans
Artist: Daniel Richter
Venue: 21er Haus
Dates: Until June 5, 2017


Daniel Richter´s exhibition – Lonely Old Slogans presents for the first Time in Vienna a comprehensive retrospective of the artist´s work. This exhibition is conceived as a traveling show. The last stop – right after the 21er Haus – will be the Camden Arts Center in London.    

Foto: Tatintsian Collection  © Jochen Littkemann, Berlin / © Bildrecht, Wien 2017


Header Image: Secession, Albertina, 21er Haus - Three very interesting venues are showing three different exhibitions. Spacial installations. Photography. Painting.

- by Itai Margula