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The ZKM at 25!

A Panorama of 1960s Revolution

 Program for the second half year 2014

With the 25th year of its founding, the ZKM now casts back to the 1960s, a decade marked by the outbreak of revolutionary movements.

With Beuys Brock Vostell from Germany, with the “godfather” of avant-garde-cinema, Jonas Mekas from the USA and with Lebel the Rebel from France, we present the origins of Action and Media art. From July through to the early part of November, the ZKM is exhibiting a panorama of fundamental, artistic revolutionary and avant-garde movements in a unique constellation of German, French and American examples, the art of which – from performance through to media – has so powerfully defined the 21st century. From December 12, 2014 on, the works of media and performance artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, a key representative of the feminist revolution, will also be on show with a ZKM retrospective.

THE CONTEMPORARY AUSTIN PRESENTS A LARGE-SCALE SOLO EXHIBITION OF ARTIST DO HO SUH FOR FALL 2014 

Do Ho Suh - September 20, 2014 - January 11, 2015

The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center, 700 Congress Ave., Austin, TX

The Contemporary Austin Laguna Gloria, 3809 West 35th Street, Austin, TX

JULY 25, 2014, AUSTIN, TEXAS - Renowned Korean-born sculptor and installation artist Do Ho Suh will present his first major solo exhibition in the US in more than a decade at The Contemporary Austin from September 20, 2014, through January 11, 2015. An influential artist operating within a distinctly twenty-first-century global mode, Suh crafts evocative and visually stunning works that reflect ideas of home, identity, and personal space. The exhibition at The Contemporary Austin encompasses the museum's two distinct sites and includes both existing works and newly fabricated pieces from several of Do Ho Suh's discrete but related bodies of work. Large-scale sculptures, installations, and works on paper will be on view at The Contemporary Austin - Jones Center at 700 Congress Avenue and at the museum's Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, 3809 West 35th Street in Austin, Texas. More information can be found at thecontemporaryaustin.org.

Do Ho Suh's work draws on the artist's personal experiences growing up in Seoul, South Korea, studying art in the US, and moving homes several times over the course of his life. He now lives a global and "nomadic" existence, with homes in New York, London, and Seoul, and an exhibition schedule that reflects this, taking him all over the world. Inspired by his personal history and biography, the artist's sculptures and installations reveal a range of powerful themes, including notions of public versus private space, global identity, memory, and displacement. At the same time, Suh's works strike viewers with their delicate monumentality, subtle beauty, and intricate construction techniques. This distinctive combination of technical skill, striking visual appeal, and universal resonance has led to both critical and public success for the artist.

Wim Wenders, Ferris Wheel, Armenia (detail), 2008, C-Print (148 x 345 cm), © Wim Wenders

WIM WENDERS

PLACES, STRANGE AND QUIET

ENORMOUS PANORAMAS OF AN ABANDONED FAIRGROUND IN ARMENIA, RADIOACTIVE LANDSCAPES AT FUKUSHIMA IN JAPAN AND A DINOSAUR-FILLED AMUSEMENT PARK IN THE USA. THIS AUTUMN’S EXHIBITION AT KUNSTFORENINGEN GL STRAND SHOWS A CAREFULLY COMPOSED SELECTION OF THE FAMOUS FILM DIRECTOR WIM WENDERS’ PHOTOGRAPHS.

WENDERS SHOWS US THE WORLD OF WHICH WE ARE ALL A PART BUT WHICH WE RARELY NOTICE.

Wim Wenders UK pdf