NEW YORK, NY.- The Paula Cooper Gallery announced that Christian Marclay’s groundbreaking new 24-hour video work The Clock has been awarded the Golden Lion for best artwork in the 54th Venice Biennale. Called “an abundant, magnificent work” (The Finan…
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Presents United Sates Debut of David Clearbout Video Work
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From May 21 through September 6, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents David Claerbout: Architecture of Narrative, an exhibition featuring a suite of four projected video works by the Belgian artist David Cl…
De Hallen Haarlem Presents the First Solo Exhibition by Matt Stokes in a Dutch Museum
HAARLEM.- De Hallen Haarlem presents the first solo exhibition by Matt Stokes in a Dutch museum. This British artist is chiefly known for his video work in which he investigates underground currents in contemporary music. The museum is showing new and …
Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Pierre Huyghe Works from the collection 22 January 2011–1 May 2011 Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst St. Alban-Rheinweg 60 CH-4010 Basel www.kunstmuseumbasel.ch The Museum für Gegenwartskunst is dedicating this year’s focus of works from the collection to the video artist Pierre Huyghe (b. Paris 1962). In three rooms, we will show video installations from the […]
Acclaimed American Artist Bill Viola’s The Quintet of the Unseen at BlainSouthern
LONDON.- Blain|Southern presents The Quintet of the Unseen, a large-scale video work by the acclaimed American artist Bill Viola. On view from 9 February through 26 March 2011. Imitating the composition of a Renaissance painting, five actors stand clos…
Shimon Attie’s Exhibition MetroPAL.IS Debuts at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
RIDGEFIELD, CT.- Shimon Attie’s exhibition MetroPAL.IS., a multiple-channel immersive HD video installation featuring members of the Israeli and Palestinian communities of New York City, is to debut at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The Ald…
De Hallen Haarlem Presents the Dutch Premiere of The Krazy House by Rineke Dijkstra
HAARLEM.- De Hallen Haarlem presents the Dutch première of The Krazy House by Rineke Dijkstra. This work consists of a series of photos and a 4-channel video projection of dancing adolescents, and has previously been shown in Berlin and New York. Dijk…
First Solo Exhibition of Sarah Mei Herman’s Work Opens at Soledad Senlle Gallery
AMSTERDAM.- Soledad Senlle Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of Sarah Mei Herman (Amsterdam, 1980). Thresholds and transitions within and between people form a perpetual theme uniting the photography and video work shown in A Wordless Whisper…
Hirshhorn’s Black Box Space for New Media Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn inaugurated a space dedicated to recent film and video work in fall 2005. In the five years since, Black Box has presented a diverse program of established and emerging artists, including Francis Alÿs, Rivane Neuenschwan…
Marco Brambilla Commissioned by Kanye West for New Video
NEW YORK, NY.- Kanye West has commissioned a video work by critically acclaimed artist, Marco Brambilla, to accompany the release of his new single “Power” from his upcoming album. The video piece will be released in early August 2010. Power…