The Soul (or, Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls) is the title of the Manifesta 7 exhibition in Trento, Italy. The exhibition is curated by Anselm Franke and Hila Peleg, and is composed of contributions by 49 contemporary artists who are mainly working in Europe. In this episode we have a l...

With the installation the chicken-and-egg-no-problem wall-painting at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, German artist Tobias Rehberger presents some 40 works from 15 years of creative production. Spread along 70 meters the visitors to the exhibition encounters Tobias Rehberger s paper flowers, his ...

The exhibition Fiat Lux at the gallery Ruzicska in Salzburg, Austria, gathers works that deal with light by Jenny Holzer ( Four Corners: Truisms, Living and Torso ), Brigitte Kowanz ( Ad infinitum , Brightness , Remoteness and Vision ), François Morellet ( 4 à 4 no. 3 and Lunatique neonly - 16 qua...

Piratbyrån ( The Piracy Bureau ) is a Swedish organization established to support people opposed to current ideas about intellectual property — by freely sharing information and culture. The name Piratbyrån is a play on Antipiratbyrån ( The Anti-piracy Bureau ), a non governmental but content i...

The Garden of Forking Paths is the title of the current exhibition at the Art Space of Deutsche Bank Salzburg. The title is borrowed from a story by Jorge Luis Borges. The show, curated by Heike Munder, director of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich, Switzerland, brings together works...

In the second part of our coverage of Manifesta 7 s exhibition at Ex Alumix in Bolzano/Bozen, The Rest of Now , we have a look at works by Teresa Margolles, Alexander Vaindorf, Piratbyrån (The Bureau of Piracy), Emre Hüner, Jörgen Svensson, Teufelsgroup, David Adjaye, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Jorge O...

The Rest of Now is the title of the Manifesta 7-exhibition in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. The Rest of Now, curated by the Raqs Media Collective, is set in the disused Alumix aluminium factory. In the first part of our coverage of Manifesta 7 s The Rest of Now we have a look at works by Harold de Bree, M-C...

The Russian artist group AES+F was one of the artists representing Russia at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 with the video installation Last Riot . As early as 2005, Ruzicska Gallery in Salzburg, Austria, realized a solo show with AES+F. Now, Ruzicska presents the whole cycle of works Last Riot 2 ...

Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, is one of the most important European biennials. It takes place every two years in different cities. For the seventh edition of Manifesta, a whole region was chosen: Trentino – South Tyrol, Italy. The area has been selected for its historical h...

Just in time for the Salzburg Festival 2008, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg opened an exhibition with a new cycle of works by German artist Anselm Kiefer. The show, named after the once popoular German Advent and Christmas carol Maria durch ein Dornwald ging (Maria walks amid the Thorn), presen...

Luchezar Boyadjiev (born in 1957 in Sofia, Bulgaria) lives and works in Sofia. His contribution to SITE Santa Fe Seventh International Biennial Lucky Number Seven, is entitled Off-SITE(s). The purpose of Off-SITE(s) is to connect Lucky Number Seven with the City of Santa Fe. Off-SITE(s) consists of ...

Since its inception, ART Santa Fe provides Project Spaces for alternative work. This year, eight non-profit institutions and galleries host Project Spaces. One of them is the Santa Fe Art Institute, which sponsored Gradient Ghosts I , a wall installation and video by the artist collective Keep Addin...

TALK AS TALK CAN: This episode brings you an excerpt of an informal conversation between SITE Santa Fe Biennal Lucky Number Seven artists Luchezar Boyadjiev, Eliza Naranjo Morse, Nora Naranjo Morse, and Rose B. Simpson. Eliza Naranjo Morse, Nora Naranjo Morse, and Rose B. Simpson are a family of art...

Hiroshi Fuji is a social activist. Fuji creates installations, performances, and events that focus on community. He uses materials deemed useless or valueless by society – such as empty water bottles, and old toys – to create works of art. One of his projects is Kaekko , a project that simulates...

At Art Santa Fe we met with Ravikumar Kashi, represented by Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore and Chennai, India. Ravikumar Kashi is one of the few artists who sculpt with paper. In Santa Fe, he showed the two sculptures Books and Armor . In this video, Ravikumar Kashi talks about the pieces on display at ...

Lucky Number Seven is SITE Santa Fe s seventh international biennial, curated by Lance M. Fung. In this episode we have a look at the work of the artists Wael Shawky, Fabien Giraud, Raphael Siboni, Studio Azzurro, Soun Hong, Scott Lyall, and Piero Golia have created for Lucky Number Seven. In this v...