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Oct 28, 2024 | 
ocula.com | Misong Kim
Galleries weigh in on the 19th edition of Turkey's biggest international contemporary art fair, which positions itself as a player in a 'union of strengths'.
Courtesy Contemporary Istanbul. Photo: Firuz Soyuer.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
ocula.com | Misong Kim |Sam Gaskin |Elaine YJ Zheng
As Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey's major contemporary art fair, returns from 24 to 27 October, galleries and museums in the capital present some of their biggest exhibitions of the year. Our picks include Leylâ Gediz at The Pill, Doug Aitken at Borusan Contemporary, and Olafur Eliasson at Istanbul Modern.
Leylâ Gediz, İzleyiciler (2024). Oil on linen. 120 x 220 x 5 cm. Courtesy the artist and The Pill, Istanbul.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
ocula.com | Misong Kim
Now in its 16th year, 'Curated by' is Vienna's festival of contemporary art, which pairs international curators from the U.S., Germany, Ghana, and beyond with 25 galleries to present a series of shows across the city. The programme, which is this year themed around 'Untold Narratives', launched last month in the throes of severe rain and gale-force winds, with temperatures plummeting to single digits.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
ocula.com | Misong Kim
Amidst the steady trickle of closure announcements, the news of galleries expanding comes somewhat as a surprise. Jack Willet, director of Melbourne gallery 1301SW, explains how their collaborative model is enabling them to open a second space this month. Exhibition view: Lime and limpid green, a second scene (Part One), 1301SW, Melbourne (30 August–19 October 2024). Courtesy the artists and 1301SW. Jack Willet has just finished sourcing a table-tennis table when I speak with him on the phone.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
ocula.com | Misong Kim
Tate curator Amy Emmerson Martin introduced key works by nominees Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur, and Delaine Le Bas. Delaine Le Bas. Exhibition view: Turner Prize 2024, Tate Britain, London (25 September 2024–16 February 2025). © Tate Photography, Josh Croll. Courtesy Tate. Painting, sculpture, and installation dominate this year's edition of the Turner Prize, which opened at Tate Britain today.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
ocula.com | Misong Kim
Standing along the Seine River in Jumièges are the ruins of an abbey that is more than 1,300 years old. French artist Laurent Grasso illuminates its histories in his latest site-specific exhibition. Exhibition view: Laurent Grasso, Clouds Theory, Jumièges Abbey, Normandy (25 May–29 September 2024). Courtesy © Studio Laurent Grasso.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
ocula.com | Misong Kim
As Europe hits la rentrée—the 'back-to-school' period as the summer holidays draw to a close—Marseille art fair Art-o-rama, now in its 18th year, is an inspired communion of the emergent guard. Galerie Maubert, Art-o-rama, Marseille (30 August–1 September 2024). Courtesy Art-o-rama. Photo: © Margot Montigny. The annual fair is hosted in the multipurpose complex La Friche la Belle de Mai, set within the former Seita tobacco factory that closed down in 1990.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
ocula.com | Misong Kim
The Australian artist's cast-resin objects orbit in a universe of their own at the newly reopened Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Hany Armanious with Flat Earth (2017) at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Courtesy Henry Moore Foundation. Photo: Min Young Lim. Stone Soup. The title conjures a lump in the throat; a hard esophageal obstruction that threatens to inhibit the ingestion of air, or meaning. Maybe it's an oversized olive pip that slyly dodged extraction. You can almost feel it.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
ocula.com | Misong Kim
At STATION in Melbourne, two Australian painters engage ancestral histories, etymology, and the natural world. Exhibition view: Adam Lee, ʘJʘ, STATION, Melbourne (20 July–24 August 2024). Courtesy the artist and STATION. Photo: Simon Strong. What might paintings by an artist who grew up in the Australian bush look like? Clare Milledge was raised in a converted army tent on Bundjalung Country, in Upper Coopers Creek in New South Wales.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
ocula.com | Misong Kim
Between 1965 and 1986, president Ferdinand Marcos Sr and his wife, Imelda, allegedly embezzled billions of dollars from the nation and amassed an inconceivable mountain of treasure including priceless works of art by Pablo Picasso, Francisco de Goya, Raphael, and Sandro Botticelli. Much of the 'Marcos loot' was later hidden or presumed destroyed to avoid evidencing the family's corruption, and has not been seen again.
