THE art fair opens the new year
After April 2022, the London Art Fair returns to its traditional time: in January, the fair opens the new art year with live performances, immersive installations and over 100 participating galleries. It takes place from 18 to 22 January.
Art in the age of machines and computers
Whether with wind, gravity, motors or computer-controlled: Kinetic art manifests the human fascination with physical movement. The 20th century brought rapid social changes and new kinds of technology. Kinetic art is an expression of this change − and it is far from being at the end. On the history of a fairly young art form with a great future.
Minimalist dance and expressionist drawings
She changed the connection between visual art and contemporary dance: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles honours the dancer and draughtswoman Simone Forti with an exhibition of the same name. The presentation, spanning six decades, opens on 15 January.
Photographs from Restricted Areas: The Arctic in Transition
Analogue photographs at -55°C: Gregor Sailer spent four years photographing research stations and military bases in the Arctic. From 14 January to 2 April, the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation in Berlin is showing Gregor Sailer: The Polar Silk Road. The works come from an area at the end of the world that is fiercely contested by riparian states.
Intimate art about kinship and queer identities
Artist Every Ocean Hughes approaches volatile or upsetting subjects with humour and intimacy. In Every Ocean Hughes: Alive Side, she works through family relationships, inheritances and queer identities. The exhibition is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 14 January.
Poetic fascination in iPhone photographs
Picture poems in black and white: British artist Toby Christian presents his iPhone photographs at Belmacz in London, in which he captures his view from his own studio garage. Toby Christian: No odonata opens on 13 January 2023.
Wood-frame construction: typically American?
From 12 January, the Palm Springs Art Museum will be devoting itself to a special building construction: the exhibition American Framing examines wood-frame construction, a little-noticed but frequently used technique in the USA. American Framing designed the US Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Masterful prints by a world-famous painter
The small museum The Burton at Bideford in the west of England is starting the new year with a highlight: from 7 January, it will be showing prints by the famous painter in Paula Rego: An Enduring Journey. Many exhibits were in her home until Rego's death in the summer of 2022.
An entire island under the sign of art
Early in the year, Singapore Art Week puts a first exclamation mark on the art world: with more than 130 events spread across the small island and city state, the whole of Singapore becomes part of the art fair. The 11th edition of SAW begins on 6 January.
David Torres: Sculptures made of »white gold«
The great cities of the world are shaped by an ever-changing society, and the arts thereby function as a mirror of their changing inhabitants. In this interview series, we let three artists talk whose lives between cultures have brought out exciting artworks.
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