Tracing the full arc of the Joseph Cornell’s life and career, the exhibition “Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust”, presents 80 works ranging from collages, films and early objects produced in the “30s to the intricate box constructions for which he is today best known. It is the first survey of Joseph Cornell’s work ever to be presented in Austria, and the first major exhibition in Europe for more than thirty years. Info: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Maria-Theresien-Platz, Wien, Duration: 20/10/15-10/1-16, Days & Hours: Tue, Fri-Sun 10:00-18:00, Thu 10:00-21:00, www.khm.at
The first international solo exhibition of Yuan Yuan, has the title “There is no there there”. Taking inspiration from a quote by arts patron Gertrude Stein, the works respond to the late writer’s impressions upon returning home to California after living in Paris for over 30 years and discovering a ghost-like setting: all that was there was no more. Departing from Stein’s lyrical description of loss, Yuan Yuan presents a series of imagined interiors, which focus on the recurring feature of mirrors. Info: Edouard Malingue Gallery, 26 Avenue Matignon, Paris, Duration: 21/10-5/12/15, Days & Hours: Mon-Sat 10:00-19:00, http://edouardmalingue.com
The exhibition “Opening the Box: Unpacking Minimalism” features ten works of: Dan Flavin, Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Rashid Johnson, Donald Judd, Agnes Martin, John McCracken, Nikolai Mikhailovich Suetin, from the George Economou Collection attempts to tell a more nuanced story about Minimalism by looking at a number of different debates, places and time periods. Info: Curator: Mark Godfrey, The George Economou Collection, 80 Kifissias Avenue, Marousi, Athens, Duration: 22/10/15-30/4/16, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00, www.thegeorgeeconomoucollection.com
Over the last 20 years, Philippe Parreno has redefined the experience of the exhibition exploring the possibilities beyond the presentation of single artworks. He conceives his exhibitions as choreographed spaces that follow a script where a series of events unfold. Parreno also questions the concept of authorship and has worked in collaboration with many highly influential artists, architects or musicians. ”Hypothesis”, is his first survey exhibition in Italy, presents a series of key pieces together with recent works and music according to a mise en scène devised by Parreno. Info: Curator: Andrea Lissoni, HangarBicocca Foundation, Via Chiese 2, Milan, Duration: 22/10/15-24/2/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 11:00-23:00, www.hangarbicocca.org
The sculpture “Autonomy Cube” of Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum, thematisizes the future of the Internet and the complex ways in which art can join into this discourse. At the exhibition in the Edith-Russ-Haus the sole artwork on display is the Cube providing free Internet access as a service, while also creating a truly inviting public space, an Agora; an open gathering place for anyone to activate the sculpture by using it. Info: Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Katharinenstraße 23, Oldenburg, Duration: 22/10/15-3/1/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 14:00-18:00, Sat-Sun 11:00-18:00, www.edith-russ-haus.de
The exhibition “Wohnungsfrage” examines the fraught relationship between architecture, housing, and social reality. It was developed in response to a set of conditions whose consequences can no longer be ignored: the reduction of housing to a matter of real estate markets and property relations; the withdrawal of the state and the subsequent dismantling of social housing; the disappearance of alternative housing models; and, finally, a growing systemic break between mainstream architectural practitioners and the individuals and communities for whom they work. Info: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, Berlin, Duration: 23/10-14/12/15, Days & Hours: Wed-Mon 11:00-19:00, www.hkw.de
“Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty”, the first retrospective of Penn’s work in nearly 20 years, celebrates his legacy as a modern master and shows the full expressive range of his work. The exhibition features work from all stages of Penn’s career and presents a number of previously unseen or never exhibited photographs. Penn’s pictures reveal a modernist instinct for stark simplicity whether he was photographing celebrities, fashion models, still lifes or people in remote places of the world. Info: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Eighth and F Streets N.W., Washington, Duration: 23/10/15-20/3/16, Days & Hours: Daily 11:30-19:00, http://americanart.si.edu
Situated at the intersection between art, architecture and science, Tomás Saraceno’s artistic practice is an articulation of utopian vision for new forms of sustainable living and cohabitation. The interactive sound and visual installation “Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions” at NTU CCA Singapore is a complete new production by the artist that brings his long-term research on spider webs into the realm of sound. The artist uses spider webs as musical instruments embodying the incredible structural properties of the spider’s silk, but also spider’s sophisticated mode of communication through vibrations. Info: Curators: Ute Meta Bauer & Anca Rujoiu, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, #01-09/10, Gillman Barracks, 6 Lock Road, Singapore, Duration: 23/10-20/10/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Thu & Sat-Sun 12:00-19:00, Fri 12:00-21:00, http://ntu.ccasingapore.org
The exhibition “All Men Become Sisters” and its accompanying performative program proposes a feminist appropriation of the idea of brotherhood, and negotiates and mediates social alliances through the concept of sisterhood—a category, which has the potential to transgress gender boundaries. The main battleground of this struggle is the sphere of labour and production, as well as reproduction of life. The presented artworks act as the means of diagnosis, transformation and interventions in the areas of memory, affects, meanings and imagination. Info: Muzeum Sztuki ms2, 19 Ogrodowa St., Lodz, Duration: 23/10/15-17/1/16, Days & Hours: Tue 10:00-18:00, Wed-Sun 11:00-19:00, http://msl.org.pl
“This Is Now”, is an exhibition that explores the development of landscape in the career of Alex Katz over the last 25 years. The exhibition features 35 landscapes in which Katz utilizes a “grammar of abstraction,” which includes the expansive allover treatment of his canvases, to capture what he calls “the present tense,” or the simultaneity of vision and awareness. Katz describes this moment as an explosive “flash” just before an image comes into focus. Info: Curators: Michael Rooks & Petra Joos, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Abandoibarra et.2, Bilbao, Duration: 23/10/15-7/2/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 10:00-20:00, www.guggenheim-bilbao.es
“PLAYBACK, The African Union: 20 to 20,000 Hz”, gives insight into the working process for a project at the African Union by the Nigerian sound artist Emeka Ogboh. The exhibition is based on sound and archive materials the artist compiled for his installation work at the building in Addis Ababa. He brings together historical speeches broadcast by the Ethiopian radio network on the occasion of the founding ceremony of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963 with newly arranged compositions and his own sound recordings. Info: Ifa Gallery Berlin, Linienstraße 139/140, Berlin, Duration: 23/10/15-10/1/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sun 14:00-18:00, www.ifa.de
In a time of radical change, when familiar constellations are shifting, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg’s new installation of selected works from its collections is guided by the leitmotif of “Setting Things in Motion”. It showcases new acquisitions as well as rediscovered works and highlights from the renowned Generali Foundation Collection. The new presentations of art from the museum’s holdings initiates a dialogue between works from the Generali Foundation Collection and selections from the museum’s own collection and other collections. Info: Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Moenchsberg 32, Salzburg, Duration: 24/10/15-10/4/16, Days & Hours: Tue & Fri-Sun 10:00-18:00, Wed 10:00-20:00, www.museumdermoderne.at
In the exhibition “Ground”, James Hyde uses the flat field of painting as a topological arena that ties together the physical substance of painting and the ground on which it is laid, extracting spatial dimensions and new meanings from this relationship. In these increasingly direct works, he utilizes abstraction to break photography’s semantic hold on the way we construct an image of the world. The artist looks to the ideas of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson and their concept of the site and non-site. By framing the natural landscape within the artificial, associations attached to both nature photography and abstract painting are unpacked and deconstructed. Info: Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, 2685 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, Duration: 24/10-19/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-18:00, www.luisdejesus.com
After their successful work “The Great Unreal”, based on a road trip through the US, which the artists subsequently distorted beyond recognition in their studio, the Swiss duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs hit the road once again in 2013. In their most recent, major project they take us on a trip by car to the East. The journey began in Zurich and led to Mongolia. The photographs and films that they made during their journey serve as the starting poin t for a series of works “EURASIA”, in which images (some real, some surreal) of their experiences are joined with those constructed from memory and the imagination. Info: Thomas Seelig, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Grüzenstrasse 44 + 4, Winterthur (Zurich), Duration: 24/10/15-14/2/16, Days & Hours: Tue & Thu-Sun 11:00-18:00, Wed 11:00-20:00, www.fotomuseum.ch
Double opening: “Be Polite”, an exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists, Gordon Bennett with a selection of works on paper that comprise drawing, painting, watercolour, poetry, and essays from the early ‘90s through to the early ‘00s. Paper is the site where imagery, words, and ideas often found their first expression before being combined into the large-scale conceptual paintings for which he is known. Alongside “Be Polite” sits the first solo exhibition in Australia by the art collective Slavs and Tatars “Mirrors for Princes”. In this exhibition, the artists look to a medieval genre of advice literature known as “mirrors for princes”. Info: Institute of Modern Art, 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Duration: 24/10-20/12/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Wed & Fri-Sat 12:00-18:00, Thu 12:00-20:00, www.ima.org.au
In a time of near endless image production and exchange “Camera of Wonders” presents an associative display of more than one hundred photographic works spanning the history of photography. The exhibition brings together some of the most significant photographic artists of the last century as well as many of the most innovative contemporary photographers. The works are assembled from Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel and the collection of Kadist Art Foundation. Info: Curador: Jens Hoffmann, Centro de la Imágen, Plaza de la Ciudadela 2, Centro Histórico, Mexico City, Duration: 27/10/15-14/2/16, Days & Hours: Wed-Sun 12:00-19:00, http://centrodelaimagen.conaculta.gob.mx
Spread in three spaces of Zagreb, the exhibition “A Retrospective by Appointment” traces common narratives and methods that occur in the media, formats and visual languages in David Maljković’s work. Rather than present a chronological sequence, it brings together a range of works, as well as elements of installations from different stages of Maljković’s career. Info: Curator: What, How & for Whom/WHW Curatorial Collective, Duration: 27/10-28/11/15, Gallery Nova, Teslina 7, Zagreb, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 12:00-20:00 & Sat 11:00-14:00, Gallery of Croatian Designers’ Association, Boškovićeva 18, Zagreb, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri 10:00-20:00 & Sat 10:00-15:00, David Maljković’s studio, Ribnjak 16, Zagreb, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 16:00-20:00 & Sat 11:00-14:00, http://whw.hr
For the French-Korean Year, Centre Pompidou Metz will present one of the most influential multi-disciplinary conceptual Korean artists, Kimsooja’s new installation “To Breathe”. The latest installment at Centre Pompidou Metz seeks to be the sum of the artist’s early meditation on painting, where the surface of the canvas is intuited to become a mirror that wraps identity, space and time; and where brushstrokes are destined to dematerialize into a splitting of light. For the last thirty years Kimsooja has worked on an ever-evolving tableau, a continuation of the artist’s early work with painting and drawing. The work presented at Centre Pompidou Metz will further her commitment to create an encounter with the public whose focus is a moment of active concentration, a revelation of one’s body in space and time that defies horizontality and verticality. Info: Centre Pompidou-Metz, 1 Parvis des Droits de l’Homme, Metz, Duration: 28/10/15-28/3/16, Days & Hours: From 1/4-31/10: Mon, Wed-Thu 10:00-18:00, Fri-Sun 10:00-19:00, From 1/11-31/3: Wed-Mon 10:00-18:00, www.centrepompidou-metz.fr
“The Other Architect” presents 23 case studies that emphasize the potential for architecture to identify the urgent issues of our time. These international and often multidisciplinary groups, with examples from the 1960s to today, invented and adopted new methods outside of traditional design practices in order to create architecture without building. Info: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920 Rue Baile, Montréal, Duration: 28/10/15-10/4/16, Days & Hours: Wed & Fri 11:00-18:00, Thu 11:00-21:00, Sat-Sun 11:00-17:00, www.cca.qc.ca
“Cosa mentale. Imaginaries of Telepathy of the 20th-Century Art” is a unique exhibition that offers a re-reading of the history or art from 1990 to modern day by exploring artists’ fascination with the direct transmission of thought and emotion. It invites the spectator to re-live one of the unexpected adventures of modernity: telepathic art in the 20th century. This exhibition traces a chronological path from symbolism to conceptual art with a collection of some one hundred works by major artists, ranging from Edvard Munch to Vassily Kandinsky, and from Joan Miró to Sigmar Polke. Info: Centre Pompidou-Metz, 1 Parvis des Droits de l’Homme, Metz, Duration: 28/10/15-28/3/16, Days & Hours: From 1/4-31/10: Mon, Wed-Thu 10:00-18:00, Fri-Sun 10:00-19:00, From 1/11-31/3: Wed-Mon 10:00-18:00, www.centrepompidou-metz.fr