2017

This was Ai Weiwei’s refugee life jacket installation

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Soleil Levant (2017) was created by well-known and revered Chinese artist and activist, Ai Weiwei. For this installation, Weiwei attached a total of 14,000 life jackets that had each been utilized by various refugees to the columns of Berlin’s Konzerthaus concert hall. Life Jackets was not the first installation created by Ai to highlight …

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Luzinterruptus made these labyrinths entirely out of plastic waste

Who is Luzinterruptus? It is no secret that the world has been up in arms regarding the global state of pollution. The increasingly popular Spanish art collective, Luzinterruptus, has been front and center in the fight against the plastic that has been polluting the ecosystem, as well as threatening marine life in the Pacific Ocean. …

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Why does Lara Almarcegui create massive piles of rubble?

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Spanish born Lara Almarcegui who currently lives in Rotterdam has always had a deep curiosity for examining processes of contemporary transformation that are brought about by the social, political and economic transformations in society. Since the early 1990s, Lara has examined urban areas that most artists choose not to focus on, such as rubble …

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Marta Minujín’s monument on notorious fascist book-burning location

Architecture, Installations / 3 minutes of reading

In the 1930s and 1940s in fascist Germany, the government banned thousands of books which had been written by authors of Jewish descent or writers that had previously shown communist or pacifist alliances. Decades later, a monument has been created to commemorate the censored books under the guidance of Argentine artist Marta Minujín. The …

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Doug Wheeler’s Synthetic Desert at Guggenheim – 46 years in the making

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Backstory Over 40 years ago, a leading Light and Space artist called Doug Wheeler imagined an art project that resembled the tranquility you would experience if you travelled to an expansive desert such as the one in Arizona. For a long time, the idea only existed on paper due to the amount of resources it …

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Ai Weiwei gives world his middle finger

Performances, Photography / 3 minutes of reading

About Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and activist. He has been vocal and openly critical of the Chinese government’s stance on democracy and human rights. His work has captured global attention and served to bring attention to social injustices, human rights violations and systemic violence. Ai never shies away from saying what …

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