European Month of Photography Berlin
LOOP – Raum für Aktuelle Kunst

Charlotte Bastian, Edward Burtynsky, Betty Böhm, Rosalind Lowry, Thomas Wrede

The exhibition Strained Terrain sheds light on artistic explorations of nature and its profound human-caused changes. On view are works by artists who depict and reflect upon the effects of the Anthropocene on the landscape and climate in different ways. Thomas Wrede has been photographing melting glaciers since 2018. The fleece coverings intended to stop the melting symbolize the superficial and helpless interventions of humans. Land artist Rosalind Lowry reacts to a place and time with site-specific interventions. In fascinating images, Edward Burtynsky documents the grave marks that industry makes on the earth worldwide. Taking a transdisciplinary approach to photography, film/video, and installation, Betty Böhm’s work interweaves documentary and research-based elements with levels of subjectivity and poetic association. Charlotte Bastian assembles new landscapes from photographs of different places and times in collages and spatial images that can be experienced in three dimensions.

Midlands Art Centre
Birmingham, UK

Waste Age: What can design do? is a group exhibition focused on a new generation of designers who are 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Current
Stowe, Vermont

This exhibition explores the intersection of environment, climate change, culture, and communities through the work of visual artists and storytellers.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Kunstmuseum Wolfberg
Wolfberg, Germany

No other substance has shaped societies in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as much as petroleum. Airplanes, tanks, and spacecraft, motorways, shopping malls and suburban settlements, nylon stockings, mountains of plastic, and vinyl – key materials and technologies, lifestyles and visions of our time owe their existence to the energy density and transformability of oil. Now, however, the dusk of the “petrol age” is looming, whereby neither can its end be precisely dated, nor its consequences adequately assessed. The exhibition Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age therefore takes a speculative, poetic look back at the presence of the modern age of petroleum, which has lasted for roughly one hundred years. From the distance of a hypothetical future, we ask what was typical of our time, what was great and beautiful, what was ugly and terrible, and how all this is reflected in art and culture.

Art Museum Graubünden
Chur, Switzerland

With the exhibition "LandLiebe. Art and Agriculture" the Art Museum Graubünden takes up a subject that is of great significance for Switzerland as well as for Graubünden, and which has always been a predominant motif in visual art. Art long favoured an idealising notion of the peasantry by often and up until the 20th century presenting farming life in the cycle of nature. Grazing sheep in the sun or ascending farmhands are motifs, which we know from artists such as Giovanni Giacometti, Andrea Garbald or Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In contemporary art, however, the rural idylls of old give way to a closer examination of subjects such as soil erosion or over management. Because the consideration of soil as being the origin of agriculture allows conclusions on far-reaching issues such as climate justice, or food sovereignty, the exhibition focuses on the ambivalent relationship between man and farmland. Although visual art works on farming can be found across all styles and epochs, the exhibition does not offer a historical reappraisal, but faces this charged topic calmly and associatively. Between myth and history, yearning and reality, the exhibition creates new and astonishing views on a seemingly familiar terrain.

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.

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Halifax, Nova Scotia

The worlds of art and architecture intersect in Making Space. Featuring a multidisciplinary mix of practices, this permanent collection exhibition looks to the broader attributes of the built environment as a thematic point of departure. The selection of photographs, sculptures, and works on paper navigates the physical and philosophical constructs of the spaces and structures within which we live and work to reveal a wide range of present-day concerns.

In reflecting upon architecture and its ability to generate and communicate meaning, the artists in Making Space not only document our ever-evolving surroundings but also pose important questions that underlie contemporary life and culture.

Ruth C. Horton Gallery, Moss Arts Center
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA

Expansive in theme and panoramic in scope, this exhibition presents works of art that are visually engaging, impactful, and even beautiful, while conveying the difficult reality that the consequences of human activity have imperiled the Earth. Featuring large-scale photographic works by three nationally and internationally recognized artists, a stunning film installation of one of the largest arctic glacier calving incidents to date, and an arresting soundscape of birds that no longer exist, the exhibition articulates in striking, aesthetic terms the damage inflicted on our ecosystems by human activity.

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Museum London
London, ON

RESOLUTION brings together works by 28 artists to demonstrate ways in which the camera has been used to record and explore traces of the past, challenge realities of the present, and impact how the future is envisioned.

Museum London’s art collection includes several hundred photographs. This exhibition features more than 60 images, ranging from photo-collages of the 1920s and 1930s, to moving social documents of the 1930s and 1950s, to trailblazing digital and hand-made works produced over the last decade. Throughout generations of collecting, two main themes have remained evident: the importance of the human figure, and the environments—both natural and social—in which people live.

Nouveau Musée Bienne
Bienne, Switzerland

The Hello, Robot exhibition . The design between human and machine sheds new light on the recent boom in robotics. It encompasses more than 200 objects from design and art - robots used in the home space, in the care and industry sectors, video games, multimedia installations as well as examples from cinema and of literature. Showing the multiplicity of forms robotics takes today, the exhibition also opens the debate on the ethical, social and political questions raised by the growing use of these technological innovations.

Hello, Robot addresses the theme in four chapters: "Science and fiction", "Programmed for work", "Friend and helper" and "A total fusion". It is as much with the fantasy of the creation of artificial creatures as with robots in popular culture. Regarding the world of work, in which robots are particularly present, visitors will meet both classic industrial robots and artistic installations that question the limits between work that can be automated and the tasks - especially creative - of humans. Likewise, in everyday life, the use of robots is becoming more and more intimate - between digital friends and cybersex. The implantation of sensors as well as the evolution towards smart cities also suggests a future merger with machines.

Maison Hamel-Bruneau
Quebec City, QC

The Anthropocene refers to the current era, which is defined by the impact of human activities on ecosystem events on the planet. It makes us anticipate a near future where looms the catastrophic scenario of a despised nature, yet so magnificent. It is from this tension between beauty and fear that this exhibition gives to see and to conceive, through the works of artists, the aesthetics of the Anthropocene. Participating artists: Eveline Boulva, Martin Bureau, Edward Burtynsky, Guillaume D. Cyr, Dominique Gaucher, Nady Larchet.

Whitechapel Gallery
London, UK

Selected by British Artist Gary Hume, important works by renowned artists including Etel Adnan, Darren Almond, Edward Burtynsky, Keith Coventry, Willie Doherty, Nan Goldin, Noemie Goudal, Howard Hodgkin, David Hockney, Alex Katz, Simon Keenleyside, Ron Nagle, Yves Oppenheim, Victor Pasmore, Tal R, Eduardo Paolozzi, Kathleen Ryan, Thomas Ruff, Prem Sahib, Haim Steinbach and Alison Wilding, are on public view for the first time from the Hiscox Collection. The series forms part of the Gallery’s ongoing commitment to showing rarely seen public and private collections.

MacLaren Art Centre
Barrie, Ontario

Curator: Emily McKibbon

The Uncanny Outdoors presents contemporary Canadian artworks from the MacLaren’s Permanent Collection that render the natural world strange. The uncanny nature of each work emphasizes the ways in which our understanding of the landscape is conditioned by how we enjoy, settle and extract value from it.

The landscape tradition in Canadian art has helped create a national self-image of Canadians as strong, resourceful stewards of the land. However, our relationship to this land is complicated, tied to colonial expansion and the exploitation of natural resources. The artists in this exhibition portray a landscape that is both familiar and unsettling: repressed ideas about the natural world come to light, revealing uncomfortable truths about our tenuous relationship to the land that sustains us.

The artists represented in this exhibition include Lois Andison, IAIN BAXTER&, Blue Republic, Edward Burtynsky, Jane Buyers, Robert Hengeveld, Laura Millard, Takao Tanabe, Tony Urquhart and Tim Zuck. The exhibition continues in the Molson Community Gallery.

Abbaye de Jumièges
Jumièges, France

Echoing the site of Jumièges Abbey near the Seine river, the exhibition, Flowing Waters Never Return to the Source: Photographers Gazing at the River in China * centres upon the Chinese river, a seminal theme in contemporary photography in China, as seen through the eyes of thirteen contemporary artists.

A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

Arup Phase 2
London, UK

The Arup Collection has its origins in the earliest years of the firm. This exhibition shows a selection of works in different media as well as furniture from Arup’s first offices. Ove Arup had a keen interest in the arts. In 1948, he became a member of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and retained an enthusiasm for collecting throughout his life which was shared by the firm’s founding partners. The Collection includes works by artists who pushed the boundaries of their medium in the post-war period, as can be seen in the prints and drawings of R B Kitaj and John Piper whom Arup worked with on Coventry Cathedral.

From the mid-1980s to the late 1990s the firm acquired works by upcoming artists, including Simon Wells and Chad McCail. In the same period, more established artists like Jacqueline Morreau, Deanna Petherbridge, Victor Newsome and Kenneth Martin contributed important additions to the Collection.

Ben Johnson’s 'Structural Trees, Stansted' (1990) and Jim Dine’s 'Lloyds Building' (1986) both relate to Arup projects. Architectural photography by Henk Snoek, Harry Sowden, Bernard Vincent and Richard Bryant also captured some of the most renowned buildings of Arup’s history: the Sydney Opera House, Centre Pompidou and the Menil Collection.

As a trust-owned firm, the Collection is an important part of the shared heritage of Arup’s members worldwide and provides a precious link to Arup’s cultural history.

A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

Nicholas Metivier Gallery
Toronto, ON

Nicholas Metivier Gallery has a long-standing reputation for representing and working with some of the most original and respected photographers internationally. On Paper | Part II brings together several photographers whose various approaches range from embracing classical techniques to reinventing the medium with unusual or highly technical applications. We are honoured to be able to work with this remarkable group of photographers that demonstrate the highest caliber in terms of quality and creativity in their respective practices.

Fotografiska, Stockholm

Fotografiska’s latest exhibition presented outdoors.

50 world-renowned photographers display 50 photographs in Stockholm's inner city.

Find your art walk using the map. The map shows where the 50 works of art are placed together with the address and information about the photographer in question. A walk around the entire exhibition is about 15 kilometers long.

When you can't come to us, we come to you.

From April 27, everyone who walks in Stockholm can experience the works of 50 of the world's leading photographers in the exhibition Open Air Exhibition, an exhibition in collaboration with Clear Channel.

In 50 locations, in bus shelters on large picture boards, around Stockholm's inner city, you can see photographers such as Anton Corbijn , Vee Speers , Mandy Barker , Lennart Nilsson, Albert Watson and Edward Burtynsky. The exhibition gives an art break in an affected and nervous life and runs until 10 May.

Through our first outdoor exhibition, we hope to contribute in this way, in our crisis-affected everyday life.

A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

Honoring the Future

Honoring Trees invites us to reflect on the splendor of trees, the challenges of climate change and human stresses pose to trees, and our opportunity to respond with creativity and courage.

Curators: Lloyd E. Herman and Fran Dubrowski