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1. The British Museum, London, Great Britain
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Until 4th of July
Kingdom of Ife
Sculptures from West Africa
This major exhibition presents exquisite examples of brass, copper, stone and terracotta sculpture from West Africa. The exhibition features superb pieces of Ife sculpture, drawn almost entirely from the magnificent collections of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria.
The artists of Ife developed a refined and highly naturalistic sculptural tradition in stone, terracotta, brass and copper to create a style unlike anything in Africa at the time. The technical sophistication of the casting process is matched by the artworks’ enduring beauty.
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2. The National Gallery, London, Great Britain
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30 June – 12 September 2010
Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries
Sainsbury Wing Exhibition
Admission free
This exhibition explores the vital contributions of applied science to the understanding of Old Master paintings in the National Gallery. A world leader in its field, the Gallery employs advanced techniques in scientific examination, conservation and art historical research to investigate a painting’s physical properties.
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3. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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22 January - 4 July 2010
Masters from the Museum Mesdag
The Dutch artist Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831–1915) assembled a unique and extensive collection of contemporary art including masterpieces by Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, Théodore Rousseau, Jacob Maris and Jozef Israëls – artists whom Van Gogh greatly admired. His collection is housed in Museum Mesdag in The Hague, which forms part of the Van Gogh Museum.
Museum Mesdag is currently closed for renovation until winter 2010/11. In the run-up to the reopening, the Van Gogh Museum is staging an exhibition on its second floor which traces the story behind Mesdag’s collection based on his idiosyncratic acquisitions policy. The presentation centres on Mesdag’s exceptional collection of drawings, watercolours and pastels, almost never on show to the public.
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4. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
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16 March - 1 September 2010
"Photography Not Art"
Naturalism according to P.H. Emerson (1886-1895)
halls 67 and 68
Only ten years after abandoning medicine to take up photography, Peter Henry Emerson published Marsh Leaves, his last illustrated book. Today it is difficult to imagine the feelings these landscapes inspired in readers of the time – images as uncontrived and evanescent as those in his first collection, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads published in 1886, were a concentrated representation of rural life.
His writings, as well as formulating Naturalistic photography, are a reminder that below the calm waters of this timeless vision of rural England lurked one of the most virulent polemicists in the history of photography.
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29 June - 7 November 2010
Everyone is a Collector!
Editions of Carpeaux and Dalou sculptures by the Maison Susse
hall 56
One notable development in 19th century in France was the production of editions of bronze sculptures. With this mass produced art, masterpieces of sculpture became an affordable pleasure for the middle classes who delighted in demonstrating a certain life style through these small luxuries.
The exhibition Everyone is a Collector! takes you right to the centre of this practice presenting, for the first time, the master models from the Maison Susse, one of the leading foundries of the time, and the last great name still in production. There was a large selection of models for these editions, classical, chosen from museum masterpieces, and contemporary.
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5. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokio, Japan
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July 24 - October 3 2010
Garden for Children
Exhibition Gallery B2
An exhibition for the enjoyment of all, from infants and toddlers to adults, Garden for Children will celebrate the perceptual powers and mindscape of small children. Featured are hands-on interactive and physically immersive works, newly created by emerging artists, each of which gives orchestration to an entire space. By enabling adults to share a world of art together with children and experience it vicariously through their viewpoint, physical sensations, and feelings, the exhibition will provide occasions for communication among people of different generations and for considering and rediscovering our own relationship with art.
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6. Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin, Germany
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11 June - 6 September 2010
Marianne Breslauer
Moments Unnoticed
Photographs 1927-1936
Confident, independence-loving women are a major theme for Marianne Breslauer. She herself matched this image of the “New Woman” in the 1920s, a type associated with the bob haircut and the demonstrative gestures of a younger generation aspiring to emancipation. These women were inquisitive, urbane, unencumbered by material worries, and they took advantage of the freedoms society offered between the two world wars as it leapt towards modernisation.
The exhibition of some 130 photographs at the BERLINISCHE GALERIE has been taken over from the Swiss Foundation of Photography. It is the first comprehensive retrospective, with many previously unknown originals and also fresh prints of original negatives from the photographer’s personal estate.
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11 June – 27 September 2010
Karl Arnold
"Hoppla, we’re alive!"
During the years of the Weimar Republic, the Munich newspaper cartoonist Karl Arnold (1883-1953) regularly stayed in the German capital in order, as he wrote, “to capture the bizarreness of this crazy city.” He supplied Simplicissimus and the Münchner Illustrierte Presse with cartoon reportages caricaturing cultural and contemporary life throughout Berlin. With his assured drawing skills and the cool gaze of a detached observer, Arnold portrayed his characters and scenes from Berlin life for a wide audience.
The Berlinische Galerie’s graphic art collection includes a large number of drawings from the estate of Karl Arnold, including many Berlin images from the 1920s. They form the heart of the exhibition, with around 130 drawings from the artist.
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11 June – 6 September 2010
Spotlight Collection
Ursula Sax
These close biographical links with the city no doubt encouraged the artist to donate a substantial body of work to the Berlinische Galerie which has greatly enriched its collection. The selection on display offers insights into an impressively versatile œuvre, ranging from stone and wooden sculpture, via works in metal and clay, to clothing and masks used for performance art.
1 May – 18 October 2010
Julian Rosefeldt – Living Oblivion
VATTENFALL CONTEMPORARY 2010
The Berlin-based video and film artist, Julian Rosefeldt (1965), who has now established an international reputation, has won the ‘Vattenfall Contemporary 2010’ award. The artistimpressed the jury with his lavishly produced film installations, in which he portrays paradoxand irrational aspects of everyday life with opulent imagery.The ‘Vattenfall Contemporary’ is a new version of the highly esteemed ‘Vattenfall KunstpreisEnergie’ prize for art, which has been awarded annually since 1992. In future the prize will beawarded to internationally acclaimed artists who live and work in Berlin, and will cover not justpainting and drawing but also media art, performance and sculpture. In addition to works beingpurchased for the Vattenfall collection, the award also includes an individual exhibition in themuseum and the production of an exhibition catalogue.
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7. S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
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June 5 – August 22, 2010
Paolo Chiasera
Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
The young Italian artist Paolo Chiasera (1978, Bologna, Italy) is fascinated by historical icons, myths and cultural symbols. He reflects on the various layers of meaning that lie concealed in our contemporary culture. From cinema, literature, philosophy and music to art history and politics. The artist isolates extracts from all these and uses them as pawns in a new narrative that is founded on the "collective memory", like bricks on the ruins of forgotten thoughts.
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June 5 – December 3, 2010
Collectietentoonstelling | Inside Installations
Honoré d'O, Mariusz Kruk, Mark Manders, Dennis Oppenheim, Jason Rhoades, Andreas Slominski, Paul Thek, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Klaus vom Bruch, Wolf Vostell
S.M.A.K.’s collection contains more than 1800 works and covers a wide range of developments in international art history from 1945 to the present day. "Inside Installations" brings 10 installations from the collection face to face with one another and with the space in which they are located. The exhibition immerses you in the multifaceted world of installation art and at the same time explains the questions and difficulties involved in archiving these sometimes quite complex artworks and making them accessible.
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June 5 – August 22, 2010
Simon Gush | 4 For Four | A speculative montage for David Oistrakh and Sergei Prokofiev
This summer, the Kunst Nu rooms at the S.M.A.K. will be occupied by the South African artist Simon Gush (b. 1981). He works across a number of mediums including video, sculpture and performance. 4 for Four comprises of a video installation in which four videos attempt to examine the complexities of speaking politically or, in other words, speaking for more than oneself.
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8. Carbon 12 Gallery, Dubai, UAE
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June 10 – September 25, 2010
Blue Skie'd and Clear"-Expanding the Photographic Horizon
Carbon 12 proudly presents "Blue Skie'd and Clear", a group exhibition featuring the photographic work of Birgit Graschopf, Yuko Ichikawa, Maria Maeser, Jamie Baldridge, Maximillian Pramatarov, and Hazem Mahdy.
Their individual perspectives on the notion of the everyday, reveal the inherent power of the medium: no medium is as contemporary as photography, literally capturing time and space. The twisted perspectives and metaphorical power of Graschopf and Baldridge, the melancholic and playful lightness of Maeser and Pramatarov, the metaphysical exercises of turning the inside out of Mahdy and Ichikawa, they all reveal the personality of each style in its own context.
Blue skie'd and clear focuses on these very individualistic approach and their concern with content and form: An aesthetic venture that should not be missed.
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9. Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
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June 22 – September 25, 2010
Sneak PostView
From June 22 until Sept 25th, Green Art Gallery will present "Sneak PostView", showcasing a selection of works by Gallery artists whose works was shown during the 2009/2010 season. Works by Syrian painter Ahmad Moualla and Moroccan artist Hakim Ghazali will be on view alongside Turkish photographer Nazif Topcuolgu and Lebanese artists Oussama Baalbaki, Tagreed Darghouth and Chaza Charafeddine.
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