Art exhibitions - 57 examples

This was Cai Guo-Qiang’s impressive installation Inopportune at the Guggenheim

Installations / 3 minutes of reading
What is Cai Guo-Qiang known for? Cai Guo-Qiang has been making art since 1985. However, the installation piece that he is perhaps most well known for, or at least helped to propel him to global fame, was his brief but impressive exploding rainbow of fireworks over the East River in 2002. This piece, which was …

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Anthony McCall & 10 of his best solid light works

Installations, Light Installations / 5 minutes of reading
Who is Anthony McCall Anthony McCall is a pioneering artist in ‘solid light’ installations. His works have been exhibited worldwide and always mesmerizing with the use of natural elements, light, fire and space to create art. McCall was born in England in 1946. He studied graphic design and photography at Ravensbourne College of Art …

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Anish Kapoor’s Leviathan at Grand Palais – His most impressive work yet?

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading
One of the most powerful artworks of all time The Leviathan at Grand Palais is just another massive artwork of Anish Kapoor that has captivated the world. Described by art enthusiasts as one of the most powerful artworks of all time, the sculpture is a culmination of the mental and physical dimensions. Like other works …

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These are Anselm Kiefer’s teetering towers

Architecture, Paintings, Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading
Anselm Kiefer’s abandoned 200-acre studio, Barjac, France German artist Anselm Kiefer has long maintained a studio at Barjac in southern France, where he assembled his large sculptures and painted some of his dark, disturbing canvases. Now he has abandoned the site, with the wish that it be allowed to “revert to nature.” People exploring the …

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Tokujin Yoshioka’s Rainbow Church – The liberation of light

Installations, Light Installations / 3 minutes of reading
Rainbow Church Rainbow church is aptly named and refers to an eight-meter-high installation that creates a rainbow as light is refracted within its space. The installation is a wall of crystal prism that throws off rainbows to anyone within the installation space. The 500 crystal prisms that make up the installation allow light passing through …

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Lee Bul’s shiny, giant metal Zeppelin – Willing To Be Vulnerable

Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading
Lee Bul’s installation that saw the transformation of the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery took place in 2018 between May and August. Occupying the entire art space, this exhibition was the artist’s first-ever solo show in London. In it, more than 118 other pieces created from the late 1980s to now were also showcased. However, …

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Giacometti / Bacon at Fondation Beyeler – The exhibition of the year?

Paintings, Sculptures / 1 minute of reading
Alberto Giacometti & Francis Bacon exhibition at Fondation Beyeler The Fondation Beyeler sheds light on the exciting relationship between Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon. Both artists have created impressive works, which are now among the most expensive artworks. How did they inspire each other? The age difference between the older Giacometti and Bacon is eight …

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The new, intimate Giacometti museum in Paris – A first look

Paintings, Sculptures / 1 minute of reading
About Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti has a new exhibition space in Paris. Hosted in an Art Nouveau villa, this museum shows a reconstruction of his legendary studio, including furniture and walls on which he left numerous sketches. The new space is located in the former artists’ district of Montparnasse, just a few blocks …

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Tomás Saraceno’s In Orbit – A seemingly impossible installation

Installations / 3 minutes of reading
A massive installation by Tomás Saraceno titled In Orbit has to be one of the artist’s most notable and successful installations. At a height of more than 20 meters, Saraceno suspended a mesh construction within which audiences could move weightlessly on the net. The net construction, accessible on three levels, was designed to resemble …

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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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Lucio Fontana’s concetto spaziale – Mesmerizing neon installations

Installations, Light Installations / 9 minutes of reading
About Lucio Fontana The Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana dedicated his entire artistic career to exploring the concepts of space, light, and void as well as the cosmos through the use of an assortment of materials such as plaster, stones, ceramics, paint, and cement. In 1946, he founded the Altamira academy in Argentina and, along with …

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What are Kimsooja’s rainbow rooms all about?

Installations, Light Installations / 7 minutes of reading
About Kimsooja Kimsooja is a Korean-born artist that has won recognition around the world. Despite living in New York, her work is exhibited across Europe, Asia and America. Her work includes performances, photographs, installations and videos. Kimsooja’s work involves several subjects like relationships with others, nomadism and the role of women in dealing with challenges …

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Karina Smigla-Bobinski’s ADA creates these unpredictable paintings

Installations, Paintings / 2 minutes of reading
What is Karina Smigla-Bobinski’s ADA? ADA, a kinetic sculpture by Karina Smigla-Bobinski, stands out for being interactive and unpredictable; Imagine a giant ball that is filled with helium gas and its surface covered with charcoal spikes. The helium causes the ball to be suspended in the air and the charcoal sticks provide grips and a …

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Olafur Eliasson’s Weather Project – Everything you should know

Environmental Art, Installations / 4 minutes of reading
About the Weather Project Olafur Eliasson has created a gigantic installation which in 2003 took overall space in Tate Modern, London. The artwork, a sun rising out of a mist, was bound to keep any visitor in awe. In this project named The Weather Project, the Scandinavian artist recreated the sun and the sky to …

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Do Ho Suh – Almost home? An entire apartment recreated in museum

Architecture, Installations, Textile art / 3 minutes of reading
Why did Do Ho Suh create this work? South Korean artist Do Ho Suh created an installation based on his New York home. It serves to highlight the permeable margins that are said to disconnect private and public in addition to the normalized concepts of global identity, space and place, diasporic movement, memory, and displacement. …

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