Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy of Arts
22November202331st July 2025
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Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts’ long-standing male solo shows have witnessed a rupture at the arrival of the Serbian conceptual pioneer Marina Abramović (b. 1946, Yugoslavia). In collaboration with curator Andrea Tarsia, the artist is the Academy’s first female artist to have a retrospective in the main galleries in its 225-year history. Marina Abramović, ‘The Spirit in Any Condition Does Not Burn’, 2011. While many found Abramović’s absence to be counter-intuitive to her ‘artist-is-present’ approach, the Royal Academy placed impetus on the exhibition being a ‘reperformance’. Abramović’s intention was certainly not compromised and instead challenged the visitor to focus more deeply...

‘Guest Relations’ at Jameel Arts Centre
20November202331st July 2025
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‘Guest Relations’ at Jameel Arts Centre

The landmark Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai welcomes a new group exhibition, Guest Relations, this winter. The exhibition runs until 28 April 2024. Curators Murtaza Vali and Lucas Morin join forces for a show that investigates the nature of commercial hospitality through art, architecture, and urban planning. Taking the hotel as its subject, this exhibition brings together the work of 34 artists whose archival and architectural research exhibit the historical, political and cultural metamorphosis of the concept of tourism from colonial hubris to present-day globalisation. Ahmed Mater, Abraaj Al Bait Towers, 2012 The exhibition appropriately draws on the nature of...

Anselm Kiefer at White Cube Bermondsey
09August202330th July 2025
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Anselm Kiefer at White Cube Bermondsey

German artist Anselm Kiefer has created a new series of works that conclude the final part of a grand trilogy of immersive and ambitious exhibitions for his latest exhibit at White Cube Bermondsey in London. In this exhibition, Kiefer reimagines the famously experimental last novel by James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, as an immersive symphony of naturalist destruction through the mutation of the novel into a non-linear dreamscape. Installation view of ‘Anselm Kiefer – Finnegans Wake’ White Cube. Photo ©Artvisor ‘Anselm Kiefer – Finnegans Wake’ is an impenetrable work of wordplay, full of puns and metaphors, synecdoches, harsh realities, and deceptions....

David Tremlett ‘Jazz Cascade’: The 50th Anniversary Of Umbria Jazz
20May202330th July 2025
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David Tremlett ‘Jazz Cascade’: The 50th Anniversary Of Umbria Jazz

Two new works for major British-Swiss artist David Tremlett in Umbria. The artist was commissioned to design the official poster for the 50th anniversary of Umbria Jazz, one of the most prestigious and long-standing jazz festivals worldwide. David Tremlett, Jazz Cascade, 50th Anniversary of Umbria Jazz. The new work ‘Jazz Cascade’ was unveiled at the same time as the new site-specific architectural intervention in Perugia, the  Artist’s House project.  Tremlett notes, “I’ve never been good with titles for my works, so when I thought about the project for Perugia, I had to really commit myself. I knew that this place...