Evelyne Janssen – POPHOUSE! An Extreme Case of Dollhouse
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
11 February – 12 August 2012
From February a playful, associative and apparently disordered miniature universe will descend upon the heart of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Evelyne Janssen will be installing her objects in the four spaces known as the cloverleaf. She has fused the English term ‘dollhouse’ and its Dutch equivalent ‘poppenhuis’ to create POPHOUSE!
Master Drawings New York
21-28 January 2012
The annual internationally acclaimed Master Drawings New York is returning to Manhattan’s Upper East Side on January 21-28, 2012. Over twenty-three of the world’s leading drawing dealers are holding coordinated exhibitions in art galleries located on New York’s Upper East Side. This annual event enables both collectors and curators to view fine works dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Yvonne Rainer – Space, Body, Language Kunsthaus Bregenz 04/02 – 09/04/2012 Yvonne Rainer, who is being presented by the Kunsthaus Bregenz in cooperation with the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, is one of the most vibrant art personalities of the 20th–21st centuries. Even today Rainer’s artistic production is […]
TOTART – Natalia Abalakova – Anatoly Zhigalov
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
January 25 – February 26, 2012
The exhibition of Natalia Abalakova and Anatoly Zhigalov at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art embraces the work of several decades. This is a kind of total project with the conceptual approach perceived and employed as a technology of contemporary art.
Maarten van Heemskerck – Ancient Rome Relives
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
11 February – 3 June 2012
This spring, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be exhibiting prints, paintings and drawings by Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), in two rooms. Sketches made by Van Heemskerck during his visit to Rome are used to provide insight into the sources of inspiration of the artist from Haarlem. Central to the exhibition is the oil painting ‘Self portrait with Colosseum’, painted by Van Heemskerck in 1553, which has been specially loaned for this exhibition from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
Lee Bul: From me, belongs to you only
Mori Art Museum
4 February – 27 May, 2012
Since the 1990s, Lee Bul has built an international career as one of the leading contemporary artists from Asia.
Astronauts Saw My Work and Started Laughing
December 22, 2011 – February 1, 2012
Tirana Art Center
Tirana Art Center presents Petrit Halilaj’s “Astronauts Saw My Work and Started Laughing” with the support of The National Gallery of Arts in Tirana.
This Rejection of the Conqueror: Works by Robert Pruitt
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
January 21 through April 8, 2012
Also on view is This Rejection of the Conqueror: Works by Robert Pruitt, featuring large-scale figurative drawings, sculptures, and an instillation by the Houston native whose subject matter addresses timely political and cultural identity issues with an element of subtle humor. Inspiration from comic book superheroes, hip-hop and urban street culture from his predominately African American Third Ward of Houston neighborhood all play into his artwork.
Meredith Jack: Back in Black
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
January 21 through April 8, 2012
Meredith Jack: Back in Black will include recent works by this Houston-based artist who is widely respected in Southeast Texas as a sculptor, molten metal caster, fine arts instructor and mentor.
Jean-Luc Cramatte – Inventory
Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur
3 March to 28 May 2012
Jean-Luc Cramatte has been preoccupied with the notion of the photographic inventory for almost 20 years. Cramatte was born in Porrentruy in 1959 and is an obsessive image maker and collector – with as much interest in his own photographs as in found images. His explorations of the visible world are always based on wilful concepts that draw our attention to the inconspicuous, to what is often overlooked.
Diane Arbus
Fotomuseum Winterthur
03.03.-28.05.2012
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves.
As of 1 January, the Italian curator Francesco Stocchi will boost Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s curatorial team as curator of modern and contemporary art. Stocchi has been active for several years as a curator, writer and publisher. Director Sjarel Ex: ‘Stocchi’s appointment underpins the museum’s ambitions in the field of international art.’