Author Archives: jolanta

These two exhibitions, with their separate themes and project attempts, are on view within the same gallery, NY Arts Beijing Space, and both had their joint opening reception this past spring. Each exhibition was curated by Stefania Carrozzini and featured her selections of noteworthy contemporary Italian artists. The media on view at these two shows […]

Wynne Greenwood, who is also known for her performances as the three-girl band, Tracy and the Plastics, presents “Peas,” an exhibition of works created for our new exhibition space of Susanne Vielmetter Projects in Berlin. Drawing its name from old and re-done sayings like "eat your peas and carrots, mind your p’s and q’s and […]

“After” consists of photographic impressions of life following (un)natural disasters. By taking an almost poetic approach to journalistic images, the photographs become the ciphers of a larger idea. These photographs are concerned with the intangible aspects of loss and memory, seeing not only what has been ravaged, but also the unexpected events and the otherworldliness […]

Art Business Consulting (Maxim Iliukhin, Mikhail Kosolapov, Natasha Struchkova) has been working as a group since 2000. Each member graduated from the first class of The New Art Strategies School (started by the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Soros Center). At that time, the Russian economy was undergoing radical changes, and so a lot […]

“This is 14th Street Union Square: Transfers available to the N,Q,R,W, 4, 5, and 6 trains. Stand clear of the closing doors please.” —Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City Visualizing a system of transport or commerce emphasizes the overall pattern of activity, rather than the action of one individual. Operating collectively, repeating and falling in […]

Artist Julius Popp’s work explores human perception and consciousness. He seeks to increase the human capacity for interaction by building seemingly simple, autonomous devices and by bringing them together within controlled environments where their exchange can be witnessed, recorded and studied. The incorporation of complex systems—created with the help of the German Fraunhofer Institute, the […]

Contemporary art from China has, over the last couple of years, become a real force to be reckoned with. It has galvanised curators, collectors and gallerists around the globe to pay heed to both a vast market and a very deep font of talent. An endless parade of gallery and museum shows, along with record-breaking […]

It is no longer possible to consider the environment merely in terms of its potential for exploitation. It is now of vital importance to consider what kind of environment and which planet we will bequeath to future generations. It has become increasingly difficult to determine the status of human beings with respect to the environment. […]

“I still consider it as a great fault, these people running around day after day screaming that they’re not interested in ‘objects,’ and we all know that even a sentence is an object. Everything is an object. Then when you go to their exhibitions, you are confronted with the most incredible amount of documents, which […]

Westerners first encountering the works of Chinese contemporary artists often strain to find references to ancient China—temples, calligraphy, porcelain and red lanterns—as if these artifacts will make the artworks more genuinely Chinese. In reality, many Chinese contemporary artists do not find their roots in an ancient past, but look to more recent popular culture for […]