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Capitain Petzel 'Kunst im Heim', Art in your Home – October 31 - December 6, 2008
'Kunst im Heim' is the opening exhibition of Capitain Petzel at Karl-Marx-Allee 45 and, to inaugurate the new space, artists of Galerie Gisela Capitain and Friedrich Petzel Gallery have been invited to respond to the architecture, form, history and surroundings of the pavilion.
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Frieze Art Fair Booth B2 – October 15 - 19, 2008
Cosima von Bonin, Matthew Brannon, Georg Herold, Charline von Heyl, Philippe Parreno, Joyce Pensato, Stephen, Prina, Dirk Skreber and Heimo Zobernig
Matthew Brannon & Wade Guyton 50 Moons of Saturn, T2 Torino Triennial, Turin, Italy – November 6, 2008 - January 18, 2009
Curated by Daniel Birnbaum
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Matthew Brannon Matthew Brannon, Galleria Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy – November 12, 2008 – January 31, 2009
Troy Brauntuch, Wade Guyton, Seth Price, and Heimo Zobernig The Art of the Real organized by Robert NIckas – September 27 – December 2008
The Art of the Real, Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium
Wade Guyton Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany – September 26 - November 9, 2008
The works of New York-based artist Wade Guyton (b. 1972) engage the formal repertory of modernism, from Bauhaus and constructivism to Minimal, Conceptual, and Appropriation art.
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Charline von Heyl Paintings – November 1 - 16, 2008
Charline von Heyl Westlondonprojects, London, England – October 15 - November 30, 2008
Westlondonprojects is pleased to announce the opening of the first UK solo exhibition of the New York-based painter Charline von Heyl. The show presents a series of large paintings and new mixed media works on paper. While the paintings exuberate a new interest in iconic presence, the works on paper are the result of the artist's recent exploration of new techniques, such as combining printing, drawing and collage processes.
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Charline von Heyl & Wade Guyton, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California Oranges and Sardines – November 9, 2008 – February 8, 2009
Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting with Mark Grotjahn,
Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher
Wool
Curated by Gary Garrels
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Maria Lassnig "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada – October 4, 2008 - January 11, 2009
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The exhibition is curated by Connie Butler, the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Maria Lassnig Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati – September 25 - January 11, 2009
Curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist in association with Rebecca Morrill. This exhibition marks the first solo show for Austrian painter Maria Lassnig in the United States.
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Maria Lassnig & Heimo Zobernig "K08: Emancipation and Confrontation: Art from Carinthia From 1945 to Present", Klagenfurt, Austria – July 6 - November 2, 2008
K08 : Emancipation and Confrontation documents how a new generation of artists set out on new paths in art after 1945 and explores this development to the immediate present.
Curated by Silvie Aigner, this show will present over one hundred artists in nine Carinthian art institutions.
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Maria Lassnig "Life on Mars", 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh – May 3 - January 1, 2009
Are we alone in the universe?
Do aliens exist?
Or are we, ourselves, the strangers in our own worlds?
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Allan McCollum São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil – October 26 - December 6, 2008
Allan McCollum "Notation" at Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Germany – September 20 - Novemeber 17, 2008
The exhibition uses art works from all areas from 1900 to today in relation to: scores and notation systems literature, music, painting, choreography, architecture, photography, film and media arts. More than 450 pieces from more than 100 artists from international collections, the ZKM and the archives of the Academy of Arts will be shown.
Jorge Pardo & Philippe Parreno "Theanyspacewhatever", Guggenheim Museum, NYC – October 24 - January 7, 2009
Organized by the museum's Chief Curator, Nancy Spector, in close collaboration with the artists, the exhibition will present a genealogy of their shared history through site-specific installations of new, often self-reflexive works created on the occasion of this project.
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Jorge Pardo "Jorge Pardo: House", Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland – September 12 - December 28, 2008
Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Jorge Pardo: House is the first comprehensive U.S. museum exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist, Jorge Pardo. Accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, this nationally touring solo exhibition spans Pardo's career to include more than seventy seminal works.
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Philippe Parreno "The Puppet Show", The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii – September 5 - November 23, 2008
International in scope, The Puppet Show brings together works by 27 contemporary artists who explore the imagery of puppets in sculpture, film, video, time-based media, animation, and photography.
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Seth Price Altermodern: Tate Triennial, London – February 2 - April 26, 2009
The fourth Tate Triennial, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, opens at Tate Britain in February 2009.
It will explore what 'modern' means now, in the globalised culture of the early 21st century. Bourriaud has come up with the new concept: 'Altermodern', and he uses this to describe art being made now that belongs to the global era and is a reaction against standardisation and commercialism.
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Stephen Prina Monochrome Painting at haubrokshows, Berlin – September 7 – November 15, 2008
Stephen Prina's Monochrome Painting is an installation of fourteen canvases.
The canvases and their respective dimensions are modeled on famous
monochromes of recent art history and reference the Stations of the Cross.
All works are monochrome metallic green auto body paint on wood panel, and
were painted in an auto body shop (the paint, Papyrus metallic green, was
used by Volkswagen in 1985).
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Dirk Skreber "Blutgeschwindigkeit Blood Speed", Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland – July 4 - October 26, 2008
Whether car crashes, aeroplane disasters, tornados or other catastrophes – Dirk Skreber's painting bewilders and fascinates one at the same time: his landscapes, empty of people and giving the impression of staged still-lifes, are grotesque and haunting. He works using photographic paradigms from newspapers or the internet and seduces the viewer with the alienation of familiar motifs taken from everyday life.
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Heimo Zobernig Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England – October 4, 2008 - January 11, 2009
For this exhibition Zobernig has been invited to respond to both the building and the context of Tate St Ives. It will include new work, together with a number of important sculptures and paintings produced throughout his career.
curated by Martin Clark
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Heimo Zobernig & Maria Lassnig 'K08: Emancipation and Confrontation - Art from Carinthia from 1945 to Present", Klagenfurt, Austria – July 6 - November 2, 2008
K08 : Emancipation and Confrontation documents how a new generation of artists set out on new paths in art after 1945 and explores this development to the immediate present.
Curated by Silvie Aigner, this show will present over one hundred artists in nine Carinthian art institutions.
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