Richard Venlet: Museum for a Small City

SMAK Museum, Gent Imagine exploring back stage of your favourite museum, delving into the archives and uncovering history with each box, envelope and container you dust off and open.  Brussels based artist, Richard Venlet (1964, Hamilton, Australia) has been generously granted access to the collection and archives of SMAK (The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, …

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Transformer: Aspects of Travesty

Richard Saltoun, London The London art galleryRichard Saltoun announces the re-proposition ofTransformer: Aspects of Travesty, a groundbreaking exhibition curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann in 1974. The original show opened atKunstmuseum Lucern and dealt with the aesthetics of desire and sexuality through travesty and drag performance. In conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the original show the exhibition …

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Anton Kusters: Yakuza

AO Vertical Art Space, Hong Kong   “It’s hard. It’s scary. I’m slowly learning, little by little trying to understand this Japanese way. But it feels like I’ll never fully comprehend.” – Anton Kusters Anton Kusters was born in Belgium in 1974. After obtaining a Master’s degree in Political Philosophy at the University of Louvain, …

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Clemens von Wedemeyer: The Cast

MAXXI, Rome MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts, presents the exhibition The Castcurated by Giulia Ferracci and dedicated to Clemens von Wedemeyer, one of the international artists most committed to experimentation within a new idiom that concerns time as much as cinematic space. For this project the artist has collaborated with Paolo Caffoni, co-editor …

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Vittorio Storaro all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia

martedi 14 gennaio alle ore 14.30 Martedi 14 gennaio Vittorio Storaro, autore della fotografia vincitore di tre premi Oscar, ma anche cultore e divulgatore della “scrittura con la luce”, torna all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. Nell’antica istituzione veneziana ha già presentato, infatti, a partire dal 2001, la sua opera di approfondimento (3 volumi pubblicati …

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