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1. The Ivorypress Art + Books Space, Madrid, Spain
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September 1 – October 30, 2010
Bucky Fuller & Spaceship Earth
Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895-1983) was an American genius who defied categorisation. He could be described variously as a green environmentalist, a prophetic visionary, a poet, architect, mathematician, map-maker and teacher, although he is most popularly known for his geodesic domes. The exhibition charts the key chapters of Bucky’s long career using photographs, original drawings, models and structures together with the recently completed recreation of his futuristic Dymaxion Car, which is shown here for the first time.
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2. Guggenheim
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New York
March 26 – September 6, 2010
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, this art embodies a melancholic longing for an otherwise irrecuperable past.
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July 9–September 7, 2010
The Geometry of Kandinsky and Malevich
Russian artists Vasily Kandinsky (1866–1944) and Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935), considered two of the pioneers of abstraction, separately explored a geometric vocabulary during the course of their careers. Malevich is recognized for his circa 1914 invention of Suprematism, an abstract style expressing universal truths through the interrelationship of color and geometric forms. On the other hand, Kandinsky, who was also interested in the universal qualities of geometry, increasingly utilized geometric motifs in his art in the early 1920s, when he took up a teaching position at the Bauhaus, a school of art and applied design in Germany.
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May 14 – October 6, 2010
Julie Mehretu: Grey Area
The term “gray area” speaks to a condition of indeterminacy, a liminal state in which something is not clearly defined or perhaps impossible to define. Julie Mehretu (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) adapts such an enigmatic circumstance as a tool to engage the viewer in her complex compositions of meticulously drawn mechanical renderings, spontaneous gestural markings, and colorful interjections.
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Bilbao
May 24 – September 12, 2010
Henri Rousseau
On the centenary of Henri Rousseau’s death, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in partnership with the Foundation Beyeler, Basel, is devoting an exhibition to this extraordinary French painter, who, until recently, has been characterized as a charming, if naive, artist. The approximately 40 masterworks from his renowned, imaginary jungle paintings to his views of Paris, portraits, allegories, and genre scenes underscore his significance as a modern-art pioneer.
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February 12 – September 12, 2010
Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts
Always one to recycle, Robert Rauschenberg had the uncanny ability to find new and often improved uses for what others tossed aside, reinvigorating detritus with a revealing second life.
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March 16 – October 12, 2010
Anish Kapoor
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents a major solo exhibition devoted to the art of Anish Kapoor, one of the most influential sculptors working today. The exhibition, which opened to enormous acclaim at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in fall 2009, is the first large-scale survey of Kapoor’s work to be seen in Spain.
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Berlin
June 26–October 10, 2010
Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India
Being Singular Plural is the first exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim to focus exclusively on artistic production in India. While recent international exhibitions have celebrated the country’s economic boom and the concomitant strength of the art market, this exhibition is oriented instead toward co-producing new work, facilitating research, and assembling a community of practitioners.
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3. The Russian Museum, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia
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July 1 - September 13, 2010
LADO GUDIASHVILI. PARISIAN YEARS. 1920 - 1925
Location: Stroganov Palace
The exposition includes 60 works by the outstanding Georgian artist Lado Gudiashvili. Exhibition is devoted to the early period of his artistic way. In the 1920’s the artist created the series of the significant paintings and graphic works that gives the opportunity to characterize him as the striking distinctive master, who made a great contribution to recovery of the national traditions of the Georgian art.
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August 12 - November 1, 2010
SKY IN THE ART
Location: Benois Wing
Exposition includes about 110 art works from the collection of the Russian Museum and private collections. There are presented the oeuvres of the Old Russian art, paintings of the XIX – XX centuries, photos and the modern art-objects (installation, video-art).
The image of sky attracted many artists who worked in different epochs and represented the different styles and ways of art. However, such exhibition, revealing the variety of approaches to this theme, is held for the first time.
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August 5 - November 1, 2010
HYMN TO THE LABOUR
Soviet Art from the Collection of the Russian Museum
Location: Benois Wing
The exposition includes about 200 art works from the collection of the Russian Museum. There are presented the paintings, graphic works and the works of applied art of the 1910–1970’s connected with the industrial theme. The most part of the works is presented for the first time.
The industrial theme had the great ideological significance and was one of the mayors in the Soviet art. The exposition gives viewers the opportunity to feel the atmosphere of the Soviet epoch, to walk along the improvised alley of the labour heroes and to see the works having the monumental sonority and civic inspiration.
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4. Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
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June 25 – October 10, 2010
A Passage to Asia
25 Centuries of Exchange between Asia and Europe
A Passage to Asia throws light on 2,500 years of exchanges between Asia and Europe and also between different Asian peoples. The exhibition presents an exceptional selection of over 300 decorative and artistic objects never previously shown in Europe: burial urns, bronze ritual drums, gold jewellery, ivories, old maps, and unique textiles, as well as extraordinary cargo recently recovered from shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea. Both the exhibition and a festival will coincide with the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) 2010 summit.
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June 26 – September 26, 2010
A Useful Dream:
African Photography 1960-2010
The A Useful Dream exhibition retraces 50 years of history, showing how African photographers have seen their own continent. Over those years they have gradually broken free of the way of looking at Africa imposed on them by the West. The exhibition has been put together by Simon Njami, author of, among other works, the remarkable Anthologie de la photographie africaine.
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June 26 – September 26, 2010
Roger Ballen
Retrospective
For almost 30 years now, the American-born South African photographer Roger Ballen has been developing a masterly, constantly evolving body of work. From the documentary style of his early days to his more pictorial, staged work, his distinctive world tacks between dream and reality. You can discover his work - at once enigmatic, amusing, and troubling - in 200 photographs, from his first images to Boarding House, his latest series.
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June 26 – September 26, 2010
PÔZE III / Africa Town
Expo
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5. The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden. Germany
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August 28 - November 7, 2010
Glöckner. Works until 1945
An exhibition by the Kupferstich-Kabinett
With Hermann Glöckner (1889-1987), the Kupferstich-Kabinett presents an important position for the period of Dresden modernity. With drawings and paintings, which were executed in the first 40 years of his work, Glöckner’s art until 1945 will be presented.
In these artworks, his fascination for geometric forms and lines that structure the composition can already be observed.
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April 18 - November 7, 2010
State of the Art since 1560. The Exhibition
Multifaceted, surprising and concentrated – that is how the exhibition commemorating the 450th anniversary of the founding of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden presents itself.
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June 20 - October 10, 2010
Jeff Wall. Transit
On the occasion of the reopening of the Albertinum, the Kunsthalle in the Lipsius building is displaying works by Jeff Wall, one of the most important photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Close by the Albertinum, which shows art from Romanticism to the present, the exhibition will shine a bright light on contemporary art.
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Until September 23, 2010
Notes of Absence. Photos by Anja Bohnhof and Karen Weinert
An exhibition of the Kupferstich-Kabinett
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May 1 - October 31, 2010
NEW THINGS. New Acquisition and Young Design
An exhibition by the Kunstgewerbemuseum
The exhibition extends over seven rooms in the Bergpalais. Exhibited are approximately 60 acquisitions of the years 2006-2010, among them 20 pieces of jewellery by the Dresden goldsmith Rainer Schumann.
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June 11 - September 19, 2010
The Fabric of Lublin / BŁawatne z Lublina
Ulrike Grossarth:Contemporary Art and Stefan Kiełsznia: Historic Street Photography from Lublin
Location: Kunsthaus Dresden
The exhibition shows a part of an unique photo cycle of the Jewish quarter in Lublin, which was directly taken before German occupation and became the starting point of Ulrike Grossarth's visual work several years ago.
