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Conversations. Masterworks from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Sep
10
to Apr 1

Conversations. Masterworks from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection

McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinberg, Ontario

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection holds more than 7000 works, ranging from Group of Seven masterpieces to humble items of furniture once in the possession of our founders, Robert and Signe McMichael; from famous artists’ materials and equipment to iconic archival photos and works on paper; from Franklin Carmichael’s well-used engraving tools to Frederick Varley’s woollen hat. A third of the collection is Indigenous, including historic cultural belongings and cutting-edge contemporary artworks. The McMichael’s mandate covers all the art of Canada, from coast to coast to coast, from early days to the present, and we aspire to reflect its full diversity.

This selection of works from our permanent collection aims to convey something of its current breadth, taking particular pleasure in placing apparently disparate works in creative conversation with one another. Featuring works by Kenojuak Ashevak, Rebecca Belmore, Edward Burtynsky, Franklin Carmichael, Emily Carr, Kim Dorland, Sorel Etrog, Paterson Ewen, Lawren Harris, Prudence Heward, Gershon Iskowitz, A.Y. Jackson, Cornelius Krieghoff, Jean Paul Lemieux, Arthur Lismer, An Te Liu, Zachari Logan, Helen McNicoll, David Ruben Piqtoukun, David Milne, Michael Snow, Tom Thomson and others.

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Human/Nature
Feb
9
to May 18

Human/Nature

Fotografiska New York

Our impact on nature has far-reaching consequences, as we know from our changing climate. Human / Nature will explore our faceted relationship with the natural world, including moments of harmony and recovery, as well as our tendency towards destruction.

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The World in My Hand
Apr
13
to Oct 31

The World in My Hand

Alexander Tutsek Foundation
Munich, Germany

Since its invention in 2007, the smartphone has quickly revolutionized our communication and media use worldwide and has become an indispensable part of our lives. Almost two decades after this disruptive technological innovation, the Alexander Tutsek Foundation's new exhibition entitled The World in My Hand asks about the traces of the smartphone in contemporary art. Around 50 works by 35 artists can be seen in the BlackBox and primarily include sculptures with glass and contemporary photography. Some of the artists on display are world-famous, such as Erwin Eisch, Karin Sander, Cornelia Parker, Edward Burtynsky, Ai Weiwei and Julian Opie. Others are still recent discoveries.

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SEISMIC: Art Meets Science
Oct
28
to Jan 20

SEISMIC: Art Meets Science

GIANT Gallery
Bournemouth

In collaboration with SEISMA Magazine, GIANT presents SEISMIC: ART MEETS SCIENCE, a group exhibition which draws on a broad scope of scientific themes to explore the numerous links between science and the arts. Curated by Paul Carey-Kent.

In SEISMIC: ART MEETS SCIENCE, ten artists present works inspired by or connected to specific scientific ideas, in an intriguing and dynamic exhibition that comprises painting, photography, film, sculpture and installation. The exhibition presents a diverse collection of mediums, styles and aesthetics – bringing to light fresh angles from which to approach the work, and raising surprising, often fascinating questions.

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SAND: Resource, Life, Longing
Sep
24
to Feb 11

SAND: Resource, Life, Longing

Museum Sinclair-Haus
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany

The exhibition Sand - Resource, Life, Longing is dedicated to this indispensable raw material, a material that is all too often banalized, and shows its diversity and its emotional and material significance for our society. It shows the sedimentary rock in its different structures, properties and dimensions. The exhibition zooms in from the large, poetic expanses of the sandy landscapes to the microscopically small components, making facets visible that are not visible to the human eye at first glance.

Full exhibition details here: kunst-und-natur.de/museum-sinclair-haus/ausstellungen/sand

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Shaping Landscapes: 150 Years of Photography in Utah
Sep
16
to Mar 3

Shaping Landscapes: 150 Years of Photography in Utah

Modern & Contemporary Galleries
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Salt Lake City, Utah

The history of photography in the United States is deeply tied to the American West. From 19th century survey expeditions to 21st century environmental movements, Western landscapes are activated as some of the most prominent subjects in American photographic history. This exhibition traces 150 years of Utah landscape photography from the UMFA's expansive collection. The artworks offer insight into how generations of photographers have used this technology to construct an image of Utah. They also confront humanity's impact on this land since the 1870s – the railroads, highways, mines, and other forms of infrastructure that puncture the "natural" landscape and shape our perception of this place.

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Terra Libera
Sep
8
to Jan 28

Terra Libera

Rijksmuseum Twenthe
Enschede, Netherlands

The exhibition 'Terra Libera' (the free land) uses old and contemporary works of art to show how (Western) people have appropriated and cultivated the land in recent centuries. Making the land useful and productive for the benefit of the people themselves plays a leading role, even today. But how did that come about and what worldview underlies this?

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Civilization: The Way We Live Now
Jun
2
to Sep 17

Civilization: The Way We Live Now

Saatchi Gallery
London, UK

This landmark exhibition tracks the visual threads of humanity’s ever-changing, extraordinarily complex life across the globe, through the eyes of 150 of the world’s most accomplished photographers. Featuring many previously unseen images, Civilization acknowledges the diverse material and spiritual cultures that make up global societies today, spanning Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Americas. Exploring a wide range of subjects, from our great united achievements to our collective failings, Civilization: The Way We Live Now highlights the complexity and contradictions of contemporary civilization.

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Uniform
Apr
15
to Sep 10

Uniform

Museum Helmond
Helmond, The Netherlands

This exhibition shows a variety of works from the collection of Museum Helmond, supplemented with a few loans in which work clothing is central. The photo above is by Bas Losekoot, 'Sequence', whose work can be seen in the exhibition.

The exhibition is made possible in part by Driessen Groep and Lavans.

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The Synagogue at Babyn Yar: Turning the Nightmares of Evil into a Shared Dream of Good
Mar
15
to Jan 21

The Synagogue at Babyn Yar: Turning the Nightmares of Evil into a Shared Dream of Good

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Koffler Centre of the Arts
Toronto, ON

The Koffler Gallery, in partnership with Swiss Architect Manuel Herz and Canadian historian and curator Robert Jan van Pelt, announce the world-premiere exhibition of The Synagogue at Babyn Yar: Turning the Nightmares of Evil into a shared Dream of Good. This international exhibition is brought together with assistance from Canadian architect Douglas Birkenshaw and through architectural photography by celebrated Dutch photographer Iwan Baan. The exhibition features large-scale photographic murals directed by Ukrainian-Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky taken by Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk. 

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MELTDOWN
Feb
17
to Mar 5

MELTDOWN

An Exhibition by Project Pressure
Kühlhaus Berlin

Since 2008, the climate change charity Project Pressure has been commissioning world-renowned artists to conduct expeditions to document changes to the world’s vanishing glaciers.

Featuring images from all seven continents, the exhibited works range in scale from the planetary level to the microscopic biological impact, with artistic interpretations giving an unique insight into the world’s cryosphere, its fragile ecosystem, and our changing global climate.

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[GREYSCALE]
Feb
16
to Mar 11

[GREYSCALE]

Flowers Gallery
Hong Kong

Bringing together seven artists across a diverse range of media who have embraced the concept of monotone aesthetics and [Greyscale] techniques in their work. Photography by Boomoon taken on Naksan beach in Sochcho evokes elements of abstract painting and negative space in the composition from the white winter seascape, while the brutalist sculpture of Lau Hiu Tung juxtaposing it explores materiality. 

Exhibiting artists include: Boomoon, Edward Burtynsky, Bernard Cohen, Lau Hiu Tung, Wu Jiaru, Rod Taylor and Michael Wolf.

Full exhibition details here: www.flowersgallery.com/exhibitions/559-greyscale

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Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art
Feb
5
to Aug 27

Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Ridgefield, CT

All art forms, even music and literature, are partially dependent on the material world. The visual arts, however, are more linked with materialism, as the field is primarily defined by objects, which are made of physical matter. Even digital media is contingent on matter, whether it is the silicon that makes a microprocessor, or the lithium that comprises the battery in a cell phone. For thousands of years humans have speculated on what the world is made of. “Prima materia” was a concept first put forth by Aristotle to describe the primitive, formless base for all matter. Later, Plato in his treatise Timaeus, wrote “The body of the world is composed of four elementary constituents, earth, air, fire, and water, the whole available amount of which is used up in its composition.” The alchemists of both medieval Europe and those of the Islamic Middle East and North Africa were the first who began to doubt the primacy of the ancient four elements and their speculation led to the transition from alchemy to chemistry that began in the Renaissance. The names given to the eras in human history–stone, bronze, iron, and now silicon, are indicative of how our understanding of matter has transformed culture.

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Nous, Les Fleuves / We, The Rivers
Oct
21
to Aug 27

Nous, Les Fleuves / We, The Rivers

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Floor 1, Room 11
Musée des Confluences

We, the rivers, shape the landscapes and fertilize the land. Essential sources of life, we are the cradles of great civilizations and most of humanity depends on our waters.

The exhibition invites you to follow the course of an imaginary river. Along the water, you discover the mystery of the sources, the colors of the confluences, the strength of the waves and finally the ecological and geopolitical issues of estuaries and deltas.

At the heart of an immersive scenography, canoes, aquatic animals, mythological characters, works of art and documentary films immerse you in the kingdom of river waters.

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Hybrid Spaces
Sep
17
to Aug 27

Hybrid Spaces

Borusan Contemporary
Istanbul, Türkiye

Featuring a selection from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, the Hybrid Spaces exhibition looks closer to the museum space that is considered “nonexistent” from the perspective of architecture and has a multilayered character due to its  continuous transformation. Borusan  Contemporary  opened  its  doors  to  visitors  in 2011 with the concept of “art in the office”, and it continues to offer sensuous  and exceptional visual experiences to its audience at the “Haunted Mansion”* with numerous exhibitions as well as its collection focused on the realm of new media. The problematique of the “new spaces for art” came to the fore again during the pandemic and opens a debate on the functions and concepts associated with art institutions and their digital accessibility. The exhibition aims to intensify the dialogue between contemporary art and architecture while focusing on the multiple positions of architecture in relation to contemporary art.

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Civilizaton: The Way We Live Now
Sep
17
to Jan 8

Civilizaton: The Way We Live Now

Musei San Domenico
Forlì, Italy

Civilization: The Way We Live Now is a major exhibition, featuring the work of 100 of the world’s finest photographers. It addresses and illuminates major aspects of our increasingly global 21st century civilization. It stresses the fact that contemporary civilization is an extremely complex collective enterprise. Never before in human history have so many people been so interconnected, and so dependent on one another. In science and art, at work and play, we increasingly live the collective life. The Olympic Games, the giant Airbus, CERN, MRI, the Trident Submarine, Wikipedia, the Academy Awards, the International Space Station, Viagra, the laptop computer and the smartphone… However we feel about any of them, none of these complex phenomena would have been possible without superlatively coordinated efforts involving highly educated, highly trained, highly motivated, highly connected people.

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New Photographs
Jul
14
to Aug 13

New Photographs

Nicholas Metivier Gallery
Toronto, ON

Nicholas Metivier Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new photographs by gallery artists Juliette Agnel, Ljubodrag Andric, Edward Burtynsky, and Ned Pratt. The exhibition will open on July 14th and will close August 13th.

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Return to Nature
Jul
8
to Sep 18

Return to Nature

Monash Gallery of Art
Wheelers Hill, Australia

Landscape as a subject has persisted through art history, but perspectives on it have shifted through time. Seeing through the lenses of over 40 photographers, from colonialists of the 1870s to contemporary artists working today, Return to nature considers the Australian landscape in its many forms. From nature as something to conquer, to something to protect, this exhibition encompasses a range of approaches to landscape, including an enduring sentiment held by First Nations people that there is no separation between humans and the natural world, rather there is interconnection and interdependence.

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Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art
Jun
18
to Jan 1

Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art

The works presented in Perspectives showcase different ways that photographers see, depict, or manipulate the concept of space. All of the works are recent gifts to the George Eastman Museum collection, which the museum actively expands through donations and purchases. The exhibition is presented in the museum's Project Gallery, with select photographs on view in the Potter Peristyle.

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Industrial Revolutions
Jun
14
to Mar 5

Industrial Revolutions

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Cité Sciences et Industrie
Paris, France

Between perspective and prospective, the exhibition questions the process of industrialization over the long term, up to its most recent digital developments.

The visitor discovers the metamorphoses of the faces of industry, through a succession of sensitive and emotional, sound and visual experiences, through the prism of our relationship to technical objects, to work, to discourse.

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Climate Crisis: Niagara Artists' Perspectives
Jun
4
to Jun 24

Climate Crisis: Niagara Artists' Perspectives

  • 354 Saint Paul Street St. Catharines, ON, L2R 3N2 Canada (map)
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This exhibit is organized as a fundraiser and all artwork are available for sale. Proceeds from the sale of artwork will be split: 25% to Land Care Niagara (a non-profit environmental organization), 15% to Niagara Artists Centre to support the maintenance of the Dennis Tourbin Members Gallery, and 60% to be retained by the artist.

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The Image of the Environment
Apr
29
to May 18

The Image of the Environment

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By Oakville Galleries
at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre
Oakville, ON

In this special off-site exhibition, Oakville Galleries is delighted to showcase artworks from its permanent collection at the Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre. Reflecting on the QEPCCC’s site as a public, community-focused space, The Image of the Environment brings Oakville Galleries to the QEPCCC and features works that speak to the development of communities in urban and suburban spaces alike. Artists in this exhibition are interested in places of gathering, mobility and migration, as well as the impact of urban development on the natural world.

With works by: Kim Adams, Stephen Andrews, Shuvinai Ashoona, Edward Burtynsky, Eric Glavin, Angela Grauerholz, Geoffrey James, Paul Kipps, Medrie Macphee, Ed Pien, Leslie Sampson, Monica Tap, Jeannie Thib, Jeff Thomas

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Re-Connections: In Kinship With Nature
Apr
22
to May 31

Re-Connections: In Kinship With Nature

A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

This exhibit explores themes of environmental activism through artistic expression. It features artwork from 32 different artists, addressing various concerns the world faces due to climate change, and inspiring visitors to take action and reverse the trend.

This exhibit is organized by ecoartspace and endorsed by UNDP Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Program and UNEP.

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Hold Fast
Apr
2
to Apr 30

Hold Fast

Coppa Gallery and Jill Dyall Community Gallery
Station Gallery
Whitby, ON

This group exhibition celebrates the vitality and resilience of the Ukrainian cultural character in Canada. Here are eight artists who have travelled different routes, yet share the same root. This root is Ukraine. Their ancestors built a free national spirit. A war not seen in over eighty years is once again attempting to extinguish that life-force. With their all-out assault, Russians are deliberately killing civilians and targeting or plundering Ukraine’s rich cultural heritage.

It is time to re-evaluate and survey the contributions of Canadian artists of Ukrainian descent. This experience has been formed and shaped by successive waves of immigration to Canada. Here is the acquisition of that experience. Drawing on more than one cultural repertoire, all eight artist in this exhibition engage in a cross-cultural dialogue filled with delicacy, grace and astonishing beauty. This exhibition is many things: it is a site of dialogue, a prompt to remember or perhaps to cry. Most of all this is a prayer for Ukraine’s swift triumph and recovery in peace.

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20 Works
Feb
26
to Jun 5

20 Works

Museum London
London, ON

When I announced that I would be retiring in March 2022, the Board of Directors asked if I would curate an exhibition of works that came into the permanent collection during my tenure. And although the Museum has both art and artefact collections, I chose to limit my choices to the art collection given my background as a painter and curator.

Rather than simply choosing my favourites (of which there would be far more than twenty) from the more than 1,700 pieces acquired in the past 23 years, I chose works that I hoped would illustrate the diversity of our collecting practice.

Our acquisitions are guided by a collections policy that outlines the rationales required when considering works for accession. Although we generally focus on our local and regional community of artists, we also look to build a national collection that gives context to the art produced in our community. As well, although our collecting is predominantly contemporary, we are also always searching to fill gaps in our historical collections.

And while we try to be as objective as possible as we build our collections, personal predilections can also play a role in our decision-making. I believe this exhibition is an expression of both approaches.

-Brian Meehan

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The MAST Collection. A Visual Alphabet of Industry, Work and Technology
Feb
10
to May 22

The MAST Collection. A Visual Alphabet of Industry, Work and Technology

Fondazione MAST
Bologna, Italy

In the early 2000s the MAST Foundation created its space dedicated to industrial and work photography with the acquisition of images from auction houses, individuals, art galleries, photographers and artists. The assets of the Foundation, which already contained a fund that collected films, negatives on glass and on film, photographs, albums, catalogs that had been produced in the Coesia group's factories since the early twentieth century, has thus been enriched and has gone beyond the parameters of promotional and documentary material of the companies of the industrial group. Currently the collection has more than 6000 images and videos of famous artists and masters of the lens, as well as a vast selection of photo albums with thousands of images, which, as was usually the case in the industrial area, they are produced by unknown authors or by the company's own technicians who worked as a hobby, but no less representative of the world of work. Today the MAST Collection has established itself as a reference center, unique in the world, for the photography of industry and work. In addition to works from the 19th and early 20th centuries, the collection embraces contemporary photography with a process of value selection and an accurate methodological approach.

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Hello, Robot. Design Between Human and Machine
Dec
17
to Mar 20

Hello, Robot. Design Between Human and Machine

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Hyundai Motorstudio Busan
Busan, Korea

In Collaboration with Vitra Design Museum

Hyundai Motorstudio Busan is a brand new space to show how great design responds to the needs of humanity under the concept of “Design to live by”. Our second exhibition since the grand opening last April is a new exhibition titled “Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine.” in collaboration with Vitra Design Museum.

This exhibition will give us a new experience with various robot technologies that change our lives by looking at the relationship between machines and humans, and the role of design.

Through the exhibition, we hope it will be an opportunity to realize how close robot technology is in our lives and to think about the future of people and robots to co-exist.

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Edward Burtynsky: Water & Anthropocene
Nov
20
to Feb 27

Edward Burtynsky: Water & Anthropocene

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CHAUMONT-PHOTO-SUR-LOIRE
Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire,
Centre D'Arts et de Nature

This fourth edition of Chaumont-Photo-sur-Loire brings together five artists or duo of artists linked by their emotion in front of the landscape, always standing in front of it, according to the beautiful formula of François Cheng, "open eye and beating heart", that this landscape either admired without reservation for its splendor or viewed in all the complexity of a beauty scarred by human action.

Showing Burtynsky’s images in Chaumont, a hotspot for interdisciplinary dialogue, is part of the spirit of the project, driven by the desire to bring the ecological question to the attention of as many people as possible.

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Waste Age: What can design do?
Oct
23
to Feb 21

Waste Age: What can design do?

Design Museum
London, UK

We all know waste is a big problem. So how are we going to fix it?

A new generation of designers is rethinking our relationship to everyday things. From fashion to food, electronics to construction, even packaging - finding the lost value in our trash and imagining a future of clean materials and a circular economy could point the way out of the Waste Age.

Explore major new exhibits that capture the devastating impact of waste including a large-scale art installation by Ibrahim Mahama made from e-waste in Ghana.

The exhibition showcases some of the visionary designers who are reinventing our relationship with waste, including Formafantasma, Stella McCartney, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Lacaton & Vassal, Fernando Laposse, Bethany Williams, Phoebe English and Natsai Audrey Chieza.

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