Artworks & exhibitions created in 2006

Maurice Agis’ Dreamspace tragically killed two people – This is why

Installations / 3 minutes of reading
What was Dreamspace V? As a commission for Copenhagen, the Dreamspace V creation by Maurice Agis saw the light of day in 1996. Scooping an award of £60,000 from the Art Council of England, everybody was curious about what this boldly colored artwork was all about. At a glance, the PVC-based work was shaped like …

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Abbas Kowsari’s surprising photos of veiled female police squad in Iran

Photography / 1 minute of reading
Tehran’s first all-female police unit In 2003 the first females ever graduated from Iran’s police academy in the capital city Tehran, after undergoing training for three years. Spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamenei himself had to give permission to Tehran’s police chief Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf to create the first all-female police unit. Abbas Kowsari about his project …

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Thomas Demand’s Grotto – 52 tons of cardboard cut into 900,000 pieces

Photography, Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading
Thomas Demand has ignited the imaginations and adventurous sides of viewers with his photography piece, titled Grotto. Pulling viewers into an underground cavern covered in beautiful bright stalactites and stalagmites, art lovers find themselves in the center of the earth. However, if viewers look a little deeper, they will find much more with Grotto …

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Kaarina Kaikkonen – These are some of her best installations

Environmental Art, Installations / 3 minutes of reading
Kaarina Kaikkonen’s biography Kaarina Kaikkonen is one of Finland’s most important artists. She is best known for her inventive use of second-hand clothing pieces (mostly jackets & shirts) and molded craft paper to transform public places like churches, streets and plazas into memorable jacket installations. The environment is incorporated into these installations in some way, …

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Alec Soth’s Broken Manual – Somewhere to Disappear

Photography / 5 minutes of reading
Broken Manual by photographer Alec Soth is a compelling series that was created over a four-year period, from 2006-2010. They reflect Soth’s increasing interest in the mounting anger and frustration that some—specifically male—Americans feel with societal constraints and their subsequent desire to remove themselves from civilization. The resulting work is a group of portraits …

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Nadav Kander: 3 years taking photos of China’s longest river

Documentary photography, Photography / 3 minutes of reading
Nadav Kander’s trips to China For his Yangtze photos Nadav Kander came to China several times in 2005 to 2007, visited 186 cities and traveled along the world’s third-largest river, from the spring in the Himalaya to the mouth. Humans are usually just portrayed as small figures next to a gigantic setting, either the river …

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