| Liisa Lounila, The Everlasting, 2005, image: Liisa Lounila |
Finnish artist Liisa Lounila (b. 1976) produces art ranging from oil paintings to moving images to textual explorations to sculpture. Further, she uses glitter to create large-scale images (solo, triptychs, series of multiples) which are primarily black and white with shades of grey—with one exception being Vandal, 2003 which incorporates red. More »
| Helen Broms Sandberg, Unlocking Passages, 2011, image: Kulturhuset |
A dual video projection displaying the fantastical world of Queen Christina Alexandra (1626-1689) as imagined by a confined writer who suffers from amnesia is coupled with an unhindered view into this same writer’s personal, imprisoned space. More »
| Nicola Bergström Hansen, Alla till Salem! / Everyone to Salem!, 2011, image: Nicola Bergström Hansen |
Stockholm, Dec. 2011: Through appropriation, remixes and collages, Nicola Bergström Hansen examines stories about exclusion and violence. Her work often explores male subcultures and the more hidden parts of the Internet. More »
| Jorge Peris, Aladas Almas, 2011, image: La Conservera |
In Jorge Peris’s earliest childhood memory, which until recently he believed to be a dream, lies the uncanny presence of salt. For his latest exhibition, ”Aladas Almas” (Winged Souls), he traveled to the salt flats of San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain, to experience being surrounded by salt. More »
| Jesper Ulvelius, Red, image: Jesper Ulvelius |
Swedish artist and photographer Jesper Ulvelius, born 1984, presents a series of photographs titled Red where the viewer sees a balding, bespectacled middle-aged man, presumably Swedish, situated in rooms which appear to be either living rooms or patios or fenced off backyards in connection to the man’s presumed apartment. More »
| Laura Lima, Marra, 1996-2011, image: Olle Kirchmeier |
“The Spiral and the Square” is one exhibition, curated by Daniela Castro and Jochen Volz, which is part of a larger project initiated so as to approach the issues of translation and translatability of other places from a primarily Swedish perspective—beginning with a close-up on Brazilian culture. More »
| Pamela Rosenkranz, Firm Being (Soft May), 2011, image: Swiss Institute |
Pamela Rosenkranz and Nikolas Gambaroff display works side by side in their respective shows, “This Is Not My Color” (Rosenkranz) and “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” (Gambaroff), for the Swiss Institute’s first exhibition in one of Jeffrey Deitch’s former gallery spaces. More »
| Ed Panar, Animals That Saw Me, 2010, image: Ed Panar |
Organized by Printed Matter, the sixth annual New York Art Book Fair presented a range of more than 200 exhibitors from twenty-one countries: independent book publishers, specialty dealers—both national and international—as well as a series of artist book-focused lectures, conferences and public initiatives which took place over the course of the fair’s interim. More »
| Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Second House, 2008, image: Galerie Nordenhake |
Born 1943 in Baer Dölum, Hreinn Fridfinnsson is an Icelandic artist who is sometimes placed in the same camp as Bas Jan Ader, Robert Smithson and Richard Long due to the conceptual underpinnings and minimalist tendencies present in many of his works. More »