2 days 40 min ago
Berlin’s project spaces are a mixed bag: indefinable in their variety, not standardized by any taste requirements, purposefully and proudly democratic. From weekly events to monthly exhibitions, from discourse only to painting and sound, from a single artist’s fantasy project to a team of 17 curators and interns, and from a zero budget to tens of thousands euro, the spaces are as different as can be.
5 days 40 min ago
What’s on the arts world in March? The Tate Modern in London, Para-Site in Hong-Kong, Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris, ACCA in Sidney, Institut Français in Madrid, Art Dubai Fair, the MoMA in NYC, Istanbul Modern or Mercer Union in Toronto. No matter the continent you live in, we’ve found something worth seeing and doing this month. If you rather stay at home, we also have a tip on what you should be reading while you enjoy your cup of tea.
1 week 2 days ago
ToledoContemporánea is a photographic project proposed by Ivorypress that makes part of the exhibition’s programme celebrating the fourth centennial of El Greco in the town of Toledo. As its curator -Elena Ochoa Foster- expresses, the exhibition reveals, through the experiences and impressions of twelve artists, the nooks and crannies of the city of the three cultures. The result is a multiple and varied contemporary interpretation of Toledo, informed to a great extent by the aesthetic sensibilities of El Greco.
1 week 5 days ago
Last February photographer Paul Graham (U.K, 1.956) gave a lecture at Fundación Telefónica (Madrid). He just wanted to give some ideas about photography, art and life, but in the end he also left us some beautiful lessons on those topics.
2 weeks 1 day ago
How do artists and galleries work together when they’re planning an exhibition? We interviewed Los Carpinteros and Ivorypress Space coordinator, Mun-Jung Chang to learn about the working process behind Bazar, our current exhibition opened until May.
3 weeks 2 days ago
From its beginning, TurnOnArt has served as a window opened between Ivorypress and the new minds around the world. However, there have been some artistic minds missing: the ones Ivorypress works with daily. Our story is also worth knowing, and this is probably the best week of the year to start doing so.
2 months 1 week ago
Romanian contemporary painter Alexandru Radvan has attracted the opprobrium of the Romanian Orthodox Church and piqued the interest of contemporary art lovers in several European countries. In this interview he talks to TurnOnArt about the differences between shocking and thought-provoking art and his nihilistic conception of contemporary art’s transformative power: 'what can still count as shocking nowadays?'
2 days 40 min ago
Berlin’s project spaces are a mixed bag: indefinable in their variety, not standardized by any taste requirements, purposefully and proudly democratic. From weekly events to monthly exhibitions, from discourse only to painting and sound, from a single artist’s fantasy project to a team of 17 curators and interns, and from a zero budget to tens of...
5 days 40 min ago
What’s on the arts world in March? The Tate Modern in London, Para-Site in Hong-Kong, Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris, ACCA in Sidney, Institut Français in Madrid, Art Dubai Fair, the MoMA in NYC, Istanbul Modern or Mercer Union in Toronto. No matter the continent you live in, we’ve found something worth seeing and doing this month....
1 week 2 days ago
ToledoContemporánea is a photographic project proposed by Ivorypress that makes part of the exhibition’s programme celebrating the fourth centennial of El Greco in the town of Toledo. As its curator -Elena Ochoa Foster- expresses, the exhibition reveals, through the experiences and impressions of twelve artists, the nooks and crannies of the city...
1 week 5 days ago
Last February photographer Paul Graham (U.K, 1.956) gave a lecture at Fundación Telefónica (Madrid). He just wanted to give some ideas about photography, art and life, but in the end he also left us some beautiful lessons on those topics.
2 weeks 1 day ago
How do artists and galleries work together when they’re planning an exhibition? We interviewed Los Carpinteros and Ivorypress Space coordinator, Mun-Jung Chang to learn about the working process behind Bazar, our current exhibition opened until May.
3 weeks 2 days ago
From its beginning, TurnOnArt has served as a window opened between Ivorypress and the new minds around the world. However, there have been some artistic minds missing: the ones Ivorypress works with daily. Our story is also worth knowing, and this is probably the best week of the year to start doing so.
2 months 3 days ago
Built upon a former railway station, the new 'Casa Mediterráneo' in Alicante (Spain) offers a new, low-budget way of refurbishment that is still beautiful and widely acceptable. A way that breaks with nostalgia and the kind of traditional and embalming conservationism that is responsible for so many unpleasant and out-dated restorations...
2 months 1 week ago
Ross Douglas is founder and director of the Joburg Art Fair (JAF), the annual contemporary art fair held in Johannesburg, which celebrated its 6th edition at the end of September 2013. With the last production hosting thirty-three Galleries and twenty-one non-commercial projects, around one hundred international buyers and ten thousand visitors,...
2 months 1 week ago
Romanian contemporary painter Alexandru Radvan has attracted the opprobrium of the Romanian Orthodox Church and piqued the interest of contemporary art lovers in several European countries. In this interview he talks to TurnOnArt about the differences between shocking and thought-provoking art and his nihilistic conception of contemporary art’s...
2 months 2 weeks ago
With an extensive background in numerous prestigious curatorial projects, including the ‘Opening’ section for ARCOmadrid, Manuel Segade reveals his feelings on his role as a curator ‘as an intermediary agent between society and the various factions of the art world’. During these challenging times in the art profession, he reminds us: ‘As they...
2 months 2 weeks ago
Proclaimed by some as the WikiLeaks of the art world, ArtLeaks is a collective platform initiated by an international group of artists, curators, art historians and intellectuals in response to the 'abuse of their professional integrity and the open infraction of their labour rights'. Daria Ghiu opens a dialogue about their mission with...
2 months 3 weeks ago
In the Performing Arts context, the first principle of the Promenade is to take the public away from their comfortable seats. But when following the audience being dragged along those journeys, one question persists: does the Promenade raise or erase the fourth wall of contemporary theatre?
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