Sabine HornigThrough the WindowPhotography | Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany | November 27, 2011 - February 26, 2012Sabine Hornig, born in 1964, is one of the most internationally celebrated German artists of her generation. Her photographic and sculptural work, created at the crossroads between photography, sculpture and site-specific installation, is both artistically independent and artistically unconventional at once and makes a vital contribution to our understanding of photography as a contemporary art form. ExhibitionPlywood: Material, Process, FormDesign | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United-States | February 2, 2011 - February 27, 2012“Plywood,” explained Popular Science in 1948, “is a layercake of lumber and glue.” In the history of design, plywood is also an important modern material that has given 20th-century designers of everyday objects, furniture, and even architecture greater flexibility in shaping modern forms at an industrial scale. Eva Besnyö1910 to 2003Photography | Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany | October 28, 2011 - February 27, 2012In 1932 Besnyö left Berlin because she felt threatened by National Socialism. She succeeded in further developing her career in Amsterdam, where she survived German occupation and became a much sought-after photo journalist after the war. The modern aesthetics of the 1920s have always remained the yardstick of Eva Besnyö’s photography. This exhibition with 120 vintage prints will be the first retrospective of work by the Dutch Grande Dame of photography in Germany. Eva BesnyöPhotographer 1910-2003Photography | Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany | October 28, 2011 - February 27, 2012In 1930, when Eva Besnyö arrived in Berlin at the age of only twenty, a certificate of successful apprenticeship from a recognised Budapest photographic studio in her bag, she had made two momentous decisions already: to turn photography into her profession and to put fascist Hungary behind her for ever. Saul LeiterNew York ReflectionsPhotography | Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands | October 24, 2011 - March 4, 2012Pioneer of color photography in the Netherlands for the first time. The Jewish Historical Museum is presenting a retrospective exhibition of the work of the American photographer and painter Saul Leiter (born in 1923). Following a long period of obscurity, Leiter’s work has recently been rediscovered in the United States and Europe. This is the first exhibition of his work in the Netherlands. Collective ExhibitionBlack and White | Designing OppositesMixed-media | Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland | November 9, 2011 - March 4, 2012Black and white polarize and are seen as radical and particularly expressive. The two colors are shaped by contrasts such as light and darkness or life and death. Common to both is a claim to absoluteness but also the expression of demarcation or distance, as well as protest. The ways in which they are used relate to specific cultural circles and are illustrated in various social phenomena. Guy BourdinExhibitionPhotography | Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, United-Kingdom | February 2, 2012 - March 10, 2012Michael Hoppen Contemporary is delighted to announce an exhibition of work by the legendary fashion photographer Guy Bourdin. Guy Bourdin, born in Paris in 1928, was one of the most radical and influential fashion photographers of the twentieth century. Lyonel FeiningerPhotographs, 1928–1939Photography | Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United-States | October 25, 2011 - March 11, 2012Painter, printmaker, and draftsman Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) was one of the first masters appointed to teach at the Bauhaus, the innovative school for art, design, and architecture established by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, in 1919. Like many other figures at the Bauhaus, Feininger turned to photography as a tool for visual exploration. Beginning in 1928 and for the next decade, he used the camera to explore transparency, reflection, night imagery, and the effects of light and shadow. Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle, Ewan GibbsExhibitionPhotography | Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United-Kingdom | February 23, 2012 - March 24, 2012Timothy Taylor Gallery is proud to present an exhibition that brings together the work of Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle and Ewan Gibbs. All three artists create deeply personal, yet iconic images of America. From the F.C. Gundlach CollectionVanityPhotography | Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria | October 21, 2011 - April 1, 2012Fashion is a manifestation of ideals of beauty and social change, an expressive play between belonging and distinction, communication and trend. Its only constant factor is permanent change. In the sphere of beautiful appearances fashion/photography works in a both anticipatory and historicizing way: it reflects the change it creates. As part of the Kunsthalle Wien’s special photography program, the exhibition Vanity, which presents about two hundred selected works from the F.C. Gundlach Collection (Hamburg). Vivian MaierPhotographsPhotography | Jackson Fine-Art, Atlanta, United-States | January 27, 2012 - April 7, 2012Vivian Maier (1926-2009) was born in New York to a French mother, who moved Maier to France as a child. In the 1950s, she began working as a professional nanny for families in Chicago. It was during this time that Maier became a voracious street photographer of Chicago, New York, and while travelling abroad. Remarkably, during her lifetime, she kept her photographs private and showed them to no one. Christopher AndersonSonPhotography | Galerie Magnum, Paris, France | February 14, 2012 - April 14, 2012This exhibition presents this very personal work of Christopher Anderson accross a selection of about fifteen prints that records his intimate life with his wife and son. With this series Christopher Anderson comes back to color photography after Capitolio, a wonderful black and white corpus about the upheavals of contemporary Caracas,Venezuela Christopher is also well known for his work on politics, war and other news.
Born in 1970 in Canada he is a Magnum Photographer since 2010. ExhibitionBrancusi - SerraSculpture | Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain | October 8, 2011 - April 15, 2012The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Brancusi-Serra, the most ambitious exhibition to date dedicated to Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the precursor of modern sculpture, and Richard Serra (1938), one of the leading exponents of contemporary sculpture. Organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in collaboration with Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, the exhibition examines the relationship between these two pioneers, focusing on the development of modern sculpture, spanning over a century. Anton CorbijnInwards and OnwardsPhotography | Fotografiska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden | January 14, 2012 - April 15, 2012Renowned photographer Anton Corbijn has consistently created inventive and unexpected expressions in portraiture while maintaining a feeling of intimacy, hence the title of his most recent exhibition, Inwards and Onwards. Since 2002 he has been working independently, portraying fine artists and other creative freethinking individuals. NirvanaTaking Punk to the MassesPhotography | Experience Music Project Museum, Seattle, United-States | April 16, 2011 - April 22, 2012Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses traces band's rise with rarities including candid snapshots, never displayed artwork, smashed guitars, signed lyrics and more. The world’s most extensive exhibition of memorabilia celebrating the music and history of Seattle grunge luminaries, Nirvana. Curated by EMP’s Jacob McMurray, and featuring rare and unseen pieces from the band, their crews and families Timothy Greenfield-SandersThe Black ListPhotography | National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., United-States | October 28, 2011 - April 22, 2012Historically, “blacklist” denotes a group of people marginalized and denied work or social approval. In an effort to redefine the term, these portraits of 50 African Americans reclaim the term “blacklist” to be affirming, influential and powerful. Picasso to WarholFourteen Modern MastersMixed-media | High Museum of Art, Atlanta, United-States | October 15, 2011 - April 29, 2012On view exclusively in Atlanta, the High Museum of Art will continue its collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), with the major exhibition “Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters.” This exhibition will present approximately 100 works of art created by 14 of the most iconic artists from the 20th century: Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. From MoMAPicasso to Warhol: Twelve Modern MastersPainting | High Museum of Art, Atlanta, United-States | October 15, 2011 - April 29, 2012Exclusively in Atlanta, this exhibition will present approximately 100 works of art created by 12 of the most iconic artists from the 20th century: Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi, Mondrian, Léger, Duchamp, De Chirico, Miró, Calder, Pollock, Johns and Warhol. "Picasso to Warhol" will be one of the largest concentrations of modern art masterpieces to ever be exhibited in the southeastern United States. Cy TwomblyPhotographs 1951-2010Photography | Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium | February 1, 2012 - April 29, 2012The exhibition Cy Twombly. Photographs 1951-2010 presents more than 100 dry prints, generated from Polaroid photographs, which were selected in close cooperation with the artist himself prior to his death on July 5th, 2011. Cy Twombly’s photographs have been a rather recent discovery. MagnumMagnum Contact SheetsPhotography | International Center of Photography, New York, United-States | January 20, 2012 - May 6, 2012Magnum Contact Sheets reveals how Magnum photographers have captured and edited their best shots from the 1930s to the present. The contact sheet, a direct print of a roll or sequence of negatives, is the photographer's first look at what he or she has captured on film, and provides a uniquely intimate glimpse into their working process. |