#contemporary-art

#contemporary-art

Davide Bugarin and Angel Cohn Castle, known as Bugarin + Castle, will represent Scotland at the Venice Biennale with a work focusing on complex emotional legacies.

"It feels to me like the paint itself has embodied a force of nature," Johnson says, Luminous beings and glowing orbs of colour populate Aaron Johnson's most recent work.

"Oracle: On Fantasy and Freedom" positions the biennial as a place to ask important questions, serving as a meaningful spot for dreaming and demanding freedom and peace.

Damien Hirst is facing allegations of plagiarism regarding his piece A Thousand Years, which bears resemblance to a work by fellow artist Hamad Butt.

Tracey Emin stormed the art world like a force of nature, bringing a naked truth forged in vulnerability and feminist intellect rather than performing femininity.

The Wilson sisters have plastered prints on the undersides of the Cheesegrater's entrance escalators, bubbling with brews of sinister life that resemble multiple eyes or frogspawn.

Dia Beacon is not your typical museum. The building alone is an architectural experience-160,000 square feet of industrial space bathed in natural light from massive skylights overhead.

KAWS' outdoor exhibition will spotlight large-scale works across the NYBG estate, creating an interactive open-air museum experience in a naturally curated landscape.

The spatial strategy is anchored by a Courtyard Pavilion in Gallery 1 and the social sculpture Nkyinkyim in Gallery 2.

Black Earth Rising illuminates connections between the climate crisis, land, presence, colonization, diasporas, and social and environmental justice through the lens of Indigenous knowledge.

The Jelly Mirror collection fuses retro aesthetics with contemporary materials, taking cues from whimsical jelly molds of the 1960s to create functional, joyful designs.

The 13th Berlin Biennale's curators workshop, themed 'Fugitive Acts: Art and Politics,' will take place from September 1st to September 7th, 2025, focusing on the role of politics in contemporary exhibition making.

Peter Phillips transformed contemporary art by merging mechanical tools, comic book imagery, and vintage pin-up cards into vibrant, collage-like compositions that shifted artistic paradigms.

Neimanis suggests that, by considering ourselves as "watery," we experience ourselves "less as isolated entities, and more as oceanic eddies," offering new possibilities for connections.

For a fair where painting is so important, we present a wide selection of artists who do not work in this format. This year's CAN is about expansion.

It's very much about human nature, (the) nature of reality, how we understand our own world. It questions what our position is in the structure of the universe.

"This was a little disappointing, especially as we'd had pre-sale interest in the work..." says André Zlattinger, Sotheby's head of Modern art, Europe.

Kruger's distinctive style combines stark visuals and confronting language that challenges viewers to engage with complex societal issues, making her work both provocative and essential.