Resentment Unresolved Canonising Koen van den Broek
reviews 01.02.10 Christophe Van Eecke
Gent, Antwerpen
SMAK, KMSKA
22/01/10 - 16/05/10
Has Koen van den Broek's retrospective come too soon? His recent works on paper suggest he might be on the verge of a breakthrough...
Comments (0) | Read more..MATERIAL WORLDS Michel François Develops Plans d’évasion
reviews 04.01.10 Christophe Van Eecke
Gent
S.M.A.K.
10/10/09 - 10/01/10
In a world run by economics and commerce the work of Michel François asks some hard and penetrating but mostly beautiful questions.
Comments (0) | Read more..Berlin
Former Stasi Headquarters
20/06/09 - 20/07/09
It is there another story hiding behind ‘history’? Might it be that ‘history’ consists of nothing more than an intricate accumulation of narratives, fragments, and footnotes?
Read more..Frankfurt am Main
Portikus
28/11/09 - 17/01/10
Rachel Harrison is one of today’s most important sculptors. With a characteristic mixture of pop art and minimalism, she has brought sculpture back to the object, from which the art discourse and the popularity of installations had made it farther and farther removed. It is not that Harrison’s art is simple to define or its concept clear, but it is unmistakably ‘things’.
Read more..Relentless Snapshots: Walker Evans Reconsidered
01/12/09 Jeremiah Day
Amsterdam
SMBA
21/11/09 - 03/01/10
David and Googliath
reviews 25.11.09 Erik van Tuijn
Amsterdam
Society of the Query conference
13/11/09 - 14/11/09
At the Society of the Query conference PHD researchers, cultural historians/analysts, new media specialists and artists all shared in the goal of critically assessing Google’s position as an information monopolist and the effect this has on us – Google users.
Comments (0) | Read more..Almere
De Paviljoens
21/11/09 - 10/04/10
In the work of Germaine Kruip, space is a playing field. In association with her exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Almere, here is a conversation about the theatre that is in all of us – and in nature.
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reviews 24.09.09 Tessa Verheul
New York
Whitney Museum for American Art
25/06/09 - 11/10/09
The exhibition Dan Graham: Beyond at the Whitney Museum of American Art offers an overview of the impressive oeuvre of New York based artist Dan Graham. Graham is the third artist – after Gordon Matta-Clark and Lawrence Weiner – to be honoured with such a retrospective as part of a collaboration between the Whitney Museum in New York and the MOCA in Los Angeles.
South Korean pavilion: Haegue Yang
10/08/09 Binna Choi
A national pavilion at the world’s oldest art biennale can be a logical place for an artist whose ‘career’ has been vigorously progressing – an artist like Haegue Yang, born and raised in South Korea and now active in Europe for about a decade.
10/08/09 Christel Vesters
Language, with all its complexities and various manifestations, is the research domain of the Serbian-born artist Katarina Zdjelar, inhabitant of the Serbian pavilion at the current Venice Biennale.




