Modern One (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art) || Exhibition: ARTIST ROOMS: Roy Lichtenstein || until 10.01.2016

As part of REFLECTIONS at Modern One in 2015, a special three-room ARTIST ROOMS display will be dedicated to works by renowned American artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997). Lichtenstein was one of the most radical and influential artists of the twentieth century. With great integrity to materials and techniques, and with intellectual rigour and wit, Lichtenstein created visually striking works that continue to provoke questions about how images permeate our lives. This display will bring together a newly assembled group of works by Lichtenstein, shown as part of ARTIST ROOMS for the first time and made possible thanks to the generosity of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

Roy Lichtenstein, Reflections on Girl, 1990
Lithograph, screenprint on paper and metalised PVC on paper
ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Lent by The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Collection 2015
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2015

Reflections: Art, 1988 Roy Lichtenstein

Reflections on Crash, 1990 Roy Lichtenstein

Reflections on Girl, 1990, Roy Lichtenstein

Roommates, 1994, Roy Lichtenstein

Composition III, 1996, Roy Lichtenstein

Modern Art I, 1996, Roy Lichtenstein

Source: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Scottish National Portrait Gallery || Exhibition: Lee Miller and Picasso || until 06.09.2015

This exhibition, featuring approximately 100 photographs focuses on the relationship between Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and Pablo Picasso. Lee Miller first met Picasso in the summer of 1937 at Hotel Vaste Horizon where she was staying with Roland Penrose. In the ensuing years she photographed the Spanish artist more than 1,000 times and he in turn, painted her portrait six times. Lee Miller and Picasso features photographs by Miller and a painting and drawing by Picasso and reveals the love and experiences of their long-lasting friendship.

Part of the 2015 Edinburgh Art Festival

Part of the IPS Season of Photography 2015

Lee Miller, Lee Miller and Picasso after the liberation of Paris, Paris, France, 1944 © Lee Miller Archives, England 2015. All rights reserved. © Succession/DACS, London, 2015.

Source: Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art || Exhibition: Richard Mosse ~ The Enclave || until 25.05.2015

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A single work in the bustle of thousands captivated viewers at the Venice Biennale in 2013: the Irish Pavilion, which was the setting for the artist Richard Mosse’s frightening and uncomfortable video work The Enclave about the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

People entered the sea of images in the video projection room chatting casually and left it silenced and horrified. We see military conflicts and attacks on civilians played out daily in broadcasts, but in Mosse’s combination of artistic and documentary methods, the full effect becomes even worse. Mosse (born in 1980 in Ireland) uses a special military surveillance film that turns the countryside’s green colors to bright pink.

With this blend of aesthetics and confrontation, Mosse succeeds in bringing the conflicts to life in a different light than the journalistic. One lowers one’s guard imperceptibly because it all takes place in an art museum, and one is therefore much more receptive and vulnerable…

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Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens || Exhibition: Dimitris Andreadis ~ Hemlock || until 31.07.2015

On Thursday, 28th of May 2015, the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre presents the solo exhibition of Dimitris Andreadis entitled “Hemlock”. The show will run until the 31th of July 2015. The latest work of Dimitris Andreadis, who presents his fifth solo show at the gallery, is entitled Hemlock. His artistic production is limitless and continuous as he belongs to the few artists living in Greece and being active in large-scale painting. His persistence in large canvases leads to the creation of an explosive painting that reflects his personal views regarding painting as a medium as well as his answer to the current social circumstances. Hemlock or Poison is a highly poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to Europe and the Mediterranean region. His latin name is conium, borrowed from Greek κώνειον originating from verb κωνάω which means revolve. We could say that the works of Dimitris Andreadis revolve around a ”poisonous” painting that encourages the viewer to enter in a dynamic space. The paintings cover a wide range of the colour palette. Spectral analysis and gestures of a chaotic architecture come to join in groups of canvases that have left behind them the object of representation and turned themselves in vital objects in space which interact with each other. Throughout his artistic career the artist claims the point between the mere apposition of his paintings on a wall and a large-scale monumental installation. His work includes dynamic objects which are placed in the white space of the gallery in order to indicate the semiotic and not the functional role of art. Always flirting with the idea of deconstructing a ready-made object, he manages to capture the viewer’s imagination with his impressive aesthetic achievements. The unique feature of the artist lies on the fact that he confronts art as an introvert gesture and at the same time as a tendency of extroversion. He is not so much interested in the presentation of a perfect aesthetic result, as he is to the ruffling of the medium. In many cases he tears apart his own canvases and places there smaller paintings-fragments of a unique internal process. As a remnant of history or as a human defect that travels along towards the future, the act of painting is once again the absolute core of the artist’s work, provoking us to think about existence at a ruthless time. As a balance, a hollow sound penetrates his work, letting us know that painting is itself a political act, a way of life. This is evident by his artistic career and the way he works, always aiming at the progress of the medium and the transformation of his atelier into a space of constant contemplation. All these bring to mind the words of Gilles Deleuze “What is recognized is not only an object but also the values attached to the object (values play a crucial role in the distribution undertaken to make good sense).” Deleuze, Gilles. Différence et répétition. Presses Universitaires de France. 1968.

Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens || Exhibition: Dimitris Andreadis ~ Hemlock || from 28.05.2015 until 31.07.2015

Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens || Exhibition: Dimitris Andreadis ~ Hemlock || from 28.05.2015 until 31.07.2015

Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens || Exhibition: Dimitris Andreadis ~ Hemlock || from 28.05.2015 until 31.07.2015

Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens || Exhibition: Dimitris Andreadis ~ Hemlock || from 28.05.2015 until 31.07.2015

Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens || Exhibition: Dimitris Andreadis ~ Hemlock || from 28.05.2015 until 31.07.2015

Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens || Exhibition: Dimitris Andreadis ~ Hemlock || from 28.05.2015 until 31.07.2015

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Rijksmuseum wins European Museum of the Year Award

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam won the European Museum of the Year Award (Emya) at an award ceremony hosted by the Riverside Museum in Glasgow last week.

The European Museum Forum (EMF), which runs the annual prize, recognised the museum following its 10-year redevelopment.

“The renewed Rijksmuseum offers impressive multilingual guidance to its visitors, witty and thought-provoking interventions in the galleries, and a state-of-the-art website for virtual visitors,” the EMF said. “It is a great museum, at the height of its powers, providing a rich experience to the public, and a socially aware outreach programme for visitors of all ages.”

The judges commended the Rijksmuseum’s educational and outreach programmes, and its goal to “reach every child in the Netherlands by the age of 12”.

The museum received the Emya trophy, The Egg by Henry Moore, which it will keep for a year.

In the 38th year of the awards, the EMF also announced three other winners.

The Silletto Prize, which recognises excellence in working with the local community and involving volunteers, was awarded to the Familistère at Guise, in France, a living museum in a 19th-century phalanstery or “social palace” for factory workers.

The Kenneth Hudson Award for achievements, which challenges common perceptions of the role of museums in society, was awarded to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva, Switzerland.

The judging panel commended the museum for choosing three designers from different cultural backgrounds for its permanent exhibition, which they said was a “bold manifestation of true cultural diversity”.

And the new Council of Europe Museum Prize 2015 went to the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations in Marseille, France. The museum was awarded a trophy, La Femme aux Beaux Seins by Joan Miró.

Five museums received special commendations from the Emya judging panel, including the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth; the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp, Belgium; the Museo delle Scienze in Trento, Italy; and the Vorarlberg Museum, Austria.

The Finnish Nature Centre Haltia, Finland, received a commendation for sustainability.

The deadline for entries to Emya 2016 is 31 May. More information can be found on the European Museum Forum website.

Rijksmuseum wins European Museum of the Year Award

Source: Museums Association

Onassis Cultural Centre || Exhibition: Strange cities. Athens the project || until 28.06.2015

It’s hard, but try to imagine that you’ve never laid eyes on Athens. Now imagine an exhibition in which artists from around the world were invited to create their own images of our Athens; there was just one condition: that they’d never seen it!

That was the challenge laid down by “Strange Cities”, for which the OCC, in collaboration with the team of curators from London’s Double Decker, carefully chose a team of visual artists from around the world.

Providing just an ‘inspiration box’ by way of help—containing a recipe, a scent, a poem, a book and recordings of the sounds and music of the city—the show seeks to arouse the curiosity and activate the imagination of artists and visitors alike.

What did the words, sounds and tastes reveal? What routes did an unseen Athens lead the artists down? What seeds did this strange and unseen city with its unparalleled history and unique myths plant in their imaginations?

Participating artists:
Eva Roovers, Photographer (The Netherlands)
Adam Dix, Painter (UK)
Alexander Egger, Graphic Artist (Germany)
Amy Friend, Photographer (Canada)
Ekta / Daniel Götesson, Artist (Sweden)
Jesse Treece, Collage Artist (USA)
Kako, Illustration Artist (Brazil)
Michael Mann, Photographer (Germany)
Peter Judson, Illustration Artist (UK)
Thomas Robson, Graphic Artist (UK)
John Diebel, Collage Artist (USA)
Jarmila Mitríková & David Demjanovic, Fine Artists (Czech Republic)
Emma Löfström, Artist (Sweden)
Kit Miles, Print / Textile Artist (UK)
Angela Moore, Photographer (UK)
Seb Jarnot, Graphic & Illustration Artist (France)
Tom Radclyffe, Illustration & Graphic Artist (UK)
Craig Redman & Karl Maier, Graphic Artists (UK / USA)
Fernanda Rappa, Photographer & Installation Artist (Brazil)
Joris Vandecatseye, Photographer (Belgium)
Ryan Russo, Sculptor (USA)
Amana (Kazuhiro Hashimoto), Digital Artist Collective (Japan)
Eva Stenram, Photographer (Sweden)

Onassis Cultural Centre || Exhibition: Strange cities. Athens the project || until 28.06.2015

Onassis Cultural Centre || Exhibition: Strange cities. Athens the project || until 28.06.2015

Onassis Cultural Centre || Exhibition: Strange cities. Athens the project || until 28.06.2015

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Moderna Museet, Stockholm || Exhibition: Louise Bourgeois – I Have Been to Hell and Back || until 17.05.2015

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Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), is one of the most important 20th and 21st-century sculptors. Her art serves as a bridge from Modernism and continues to exert its influence on contemporary artistic practices today. One-third of the pieces in the exhibition have never before been shown publicly.

Before entering the exhibition, visitors will encounter her monumental work Maman, a gigantic spider sculpture, which is standing outside the museum. The art of Louise Bourgeois is complex, radical and full of subversive humour, danger and fear. She succeeds in formulating that which is hard to find words for, and her creative urge was intimately linked with her need to understand, imbuing her oeuvre with a compelling psychological dimension.

Moderna Museet’s Louise Bourgeois – I Have Been to Hell and Back is a major survey of Bourgeois’s oeuvre and, with more than 100 works, it is the largest exhibition in Sweden to date. It includes…

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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum || Exhibition: Raoul Dufy || until 17.05.2015

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The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza holds the first major retrospective on Raoul Dufy in Madrid since the one presented at the Casa de las Alhajas in 1989. The exhibition, which is benefiting from the collaboration of the Comunidad de Madrid, offers a comprehensive survey of the entire career of this French artist through 93 works loaned from private collections and museums, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate, London, and an exceptional loan of 36 works from the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Although principally featuring oil paintings, the exhibition includes drawings and watercolours in addition to textiles and ceramics designed by Dufy during the course of his long and prolific career of more than half a century. The Museum offers a reassessment of his work that focuses not only on Dufy’s more hedonistic side as the…

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The National Gallery Oslo || Exhibition: The Magic North. Finnish and Norwegian art around 1900 || until 16.05.2015

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The exhibition is the first to establish a dialogue between Norwegian and Finnish art. Historical and political parallels make the juxtaposition of turn-of-the-century art from Norway and Finland a pertinent theme. Cultural life in both countries was dominated by the yearning for national independence, and many artists of the period were inspired by local traditions. Symbolism was also of major importance in the arts in both nations. With a focus on common denominators such as Nordic mythology, a fascination for pristine nature and concern for the existential vulnerability of humankind, the exhibition reveals both thematic and stylistic similarities.

Edvard Munch, “Melancholy”, 1892. The National Museum. Photo: The National Museum

Edvard Munch, «Puberty», 1894–95. The National Museum. Photo: The National Museum

Hugo Simberg, “The Wounded Angel”, 1903. Ahlström collection, Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Aaltonen

Theodor Kittelsen, “Self-Portrait”, 1891. The National Museum. Photo: The National Museum /…

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Schwules Museum Berlin || Exhibition: Porn That Way || until 17.05.2015

This exhibition ends today!

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Opening Night: 6 December, 19h

For the first time ever, an exhibition combines the developments, past and present, of gay, lesbian, trans* and queer pornography.

“Porn That Way” is an academic, critical, yet sensual show. It covers the history of homosexual porn, from the dark and hidden alleys of the 19^th century to the out-and-proud products of the 1970s, from the films of the AIDS crisis years to the current sex-positive feminist movement, the advent of “Romantic Porn” as the next step after “Reality Porn 2.0”, as well as the ever-expanding trans*porn movement.

Photos, postcards, films, magazines, costumes, contracts, original tapes, posters and flyers – as well as vintage dildos, injection needles, pills and camera equipment – from archives, studios and private donors around the world mirror the continuing emancipation of queer sexualities. The objects on display emphasize the enormous differences, both in terms of time periods as well…

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