Loop Barcelona, the format for artists cinema returns

 The Mirror People by Clément Safra, Kokanas Gallery. Photo by Carlos Collado. Loop Fair 2023

Carne de mi carne Entrañas by María Alcaide. Photo by Xavi Torrent. Loop Festival 2021

 

 

Loop Festival 2023. Photo by Víctor Parreño

After over two decades of Loop Barcelona, the format rendering tribute to the moving image has consolidated and crystalised. Split into three pillars—Festival, Fair and Symposium—the programme attracts video art specialists, art world professionals at large and a curious, broader public every November. The Festival, sprinkled throughout the city, will feature artists such as Laure Prouvost, Metahaven and Thomias Radin. The Fair, housed in the rooms of the Almanac hotel, will host more than 40 exhibiting galleries. In parallel, the Symposium curated by Filipa Ramos will dig deeper into the world of commissioning, exhibiting and collecting Artists’ Cinema.

Depicting Identity — Rineke Dijkstra Embraces Human Complexity

Rineke Dijkstra, Odessa, Ukraine, August 6, 1993, © courtesy of the artist, Galerie Max Hetzler, Marian Goodman Gallery and Galerie Jan Mot

Rineke Dijkstra, Tiergarten, Berlin, June 27, 1999, © courtesy of the artist, Galerie Max Hetzler, Marian Goodman Gallery and Galerie Jan Mot

Rineke Dijkstra, Sasha and Marianna, Kingisepp, Russia, November 2, 2014,
© courtesy of the artist, Galerie Max Hetzler, Marian Goodman Gallery and Galerie Jan Mot

Photographer and video artist Rineke Dijkstra (b. 1959) focuses on depicting identity in her portraits. Rineke Dijkstra. Still — Moving. Portraits 1992 – 2024, her solo show at the Berlinische Galerie will give an overview of her work, concentrating on the theme of ‘transition’. By isolating people from their everyday contexts and searching for glimmers of individuality she encourages the viewer to look closely at people, pared down to essentials, focusing on their posture and gaze.

Ana Lupas’ Work as Covert Resistance, Against All Odds

Ana Lupas in her studio in Cluj, 2023 © Photo: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

Ana Lupas, Humid Installation, 1970. Outdoor installa4on with canvas, stakes, clothes linen, 15 trenches, surface area ca. 300 sqm. Photo: Carlo Favero. Courtesy Mircea Pinte Collection, Cluj, Romania © Ana Lupas

Ana Lupas, Coats to Borrow (detail), 1989. Handmade coats, various techniques, and coat rack in painted iron, variable dimensions. Collection of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Photo: Carlo Favero. © Ana Lupas

Eyes in Ana Lupas’s studio in Cluj, 2023 Photo: Carlo Favero. Courtesy the artist and P420, Bologna. © Ana Lupas

Ana Lupas. Eye, 1974–1991. Porcelain, each: Ø 71. Collection of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz © Ana Lupas

 

Ana Lupas has been an outstanding figure in Eastern European art since the 1960s. Despite state repression until 1989 her work has been shown in various group exhibitions in Europe and America for the past 50 years—against all odds she has created an independent oeuvre. In 2024, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam are dedicating what will be the most comprehensive solo show so far to Ana Lupas, Intimate Space — Open Gaze, featuring hitherto unseen works from the 1960s to the present.

Drawings in Dialogue — sauerbruch hutton meets the archives

Left: Paul Goesch, Untitled (Hütte in Landschaft), No date, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Paul-Goesch-Archiv. 

Right: sauerbruch hutton, L House, London, 1992, Watercolour, © sauerbruch hutton.

Draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities is opening at the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg. Containing some 60 architectural models and around 100 drawings by the Berlin-based architectural team sauerbruch hutton, the double exhibition shows work produced over the space of three decades, setting it in dialogue with historical visions from the Akademie’s Architectural Archives. This revised concept for the retrospective draw love build, expands it to include a key component: a view of the archive itself.

DESIGN ARCHIVE MEETS MUSIC CLASSICS AT BAUHAUS MUSIC

Bauhaus Music 2024 Visuals © L2M3

Since 2021, the Bauhaus-Archiv has explored the link between Bauhaus and music through the ‘Bauhaus Music’ project. This year’s festival, themed ‘Freedom,’ will feature five concerts over three days. A highlight is the debut of excerpts from Marc Blitzstein’s lost 1929 opera Parabola and Circula, discovered during research into Bauhaus’ musical history. The festival will also showcase works by composers like Schönberg, Bartók, and Berg, with performances by artists including Claudia Barainsky, Kolja Blacher, and the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin.

LONDON’S NON-FAIR ART FAIR

©.Minor Attractions 2024

The young satellite fair Minor Attractions, running parallel to Frieze London, returns this Autumn together with some of the most exciting contemporary art galleries and non-profit art spaces from North America to Central and Eastern Europe. Following the footsteps of the original Armory Show or Loop Barcelona and non-traditional fairs such as Basel Social Club or Spring/Break, the second edition will take over the rooms and common areas of The Mandrake and offer a robust performance and evening program.

How to Just Do It

Archivalien im Department of Nike Archives (DNA), Beaverton, Oregon, 2024
© Nike, Inc., Foto: Alastair Philip Wiper

The Vitra Design Museum explores the five-decade ascent from a grassroots start-up to a global phenomenon of international sportsbrand Nike. The focus is on the company’s design history: from the beginnings in the 1960s and the design of its famous »swoosh« logo, to iconic products such as Air Max and Flyknit, and current research devoted to future materials and sustainability. »Form follows Motion« will emphasise the importance of sports for design innovation and social change, while also shedding light on the almost mythical devotion to sneakers and sportswear in popular culture and social media. 

HENRI MATISSE EN ROUTE

Henri Matisse, Intérieur à la fougère noire, 1948. Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Sammlung Beyeler © Succession Henri Matisse / 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich. Foto: Robert Bayer

Henri Matisse, Nu bleu I, 1952. Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Sammlung Beyeler © Succession Henri Matisse / 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich. Foto: Robert Bayer

Luxury, peace and pleasure (luxe, calme et volupté) −the poetic leitmotifs of Charles Baudelaire’s poem «Invitation to the Voyage», dating 1857− capture the very essence of Henri Matisse’s artistic output. This Autumn, the Fondation Beyeler departs from these guiding principles to invite visitors on a journey spanning the full range of the modern artist’s career. The much-awaited retrospective features 70 iconic and rarely-seen works including sculptures, paintings, drawings, and cutouts from major museums and private collections. 

A DRAMATIC TRAFFIC ACCIDENT

Photo: Ege Dandin

Göksu Kunak’s new performance / installation at Sophiensæle is based on the Susurluk scandal, a notorious car crash in Turkey in the 1990s that led to the discovery of criminal links between state institutions, the drug mafia and deep state relations. Kunak reflects on the policy of concealing and erasing and uses the accident as a metaphor for a corrupted patriarchal, political system. “Innocence” is an attempt of a genealogy of corruption and the effects of western imperialism on the country and the Middle East. 

WANNA SEE WANNSEE?

© Clemens Poloczek

Much visited, sung about, admired and filmed: The Wannsee lido is a Berlin icon and its architecture is a listed building. What most Berliners don’t realise, however, is that most of the complex is now empty. While up to 12,000 bathers enjoy the sandy beach on summery days, a unique architectural monument — and a large spatial resource with great potential — is falling apart just metres behind it. The exhibition Wanna See Wannsee? will show how architecture and history can be combined with sustainable reuse: to save and restore the monument and, in doing so, carry the torch of the social idea of the lido and its founder Herman Clajus.  

OUT IN THE OPEN

Basel Social Club 2024 © Installation view Julia Scher, Photo: Gina Folly

Following the great success of the Basel Social Club 2023 at a former mayonnaise factory, this upcoming edition will take place outdoors, on 50 hectares of farmland fields. The week-long event, core of which are landscape, agriculture, and farm animals, will offer a rather slow art experience — in seeming stark contrast with Art Basel. Fellas’ venturing out there will be met with an open-air exhibition proposed by galleries, farm-to-table gastronomy, and an impressive performance program. The latter, curated by the Performance Agency, will count with Margaret Raspé, Jean Tinguely, Paulo Nazareth, Juliette Blightman and many more.

What’s your favourite colour?

© Vitra

© Vitra

‘The colours used in the VitraHaus Loft are personal favourites, I like these colours and never tire of them, which makes them timeless for me. I think this attitude is important for anyone creating their own home.’ Working closely with the team at Vitra, the top floor of the VitraHaus has been transformed by Sabine Marcelis into an intelligently organised yet highly imaginative showcase of how colour and design can be combined with compelling results.

From South Asia to South Baden

In Bangladesh, floods are becoming more frequent as a result of climate change, forcing countless numbers of people to look for a new home. Against this backdrop, architect Marina Tabassum and her team have developed the Khudi Bari, or small house: a low-cost structure that can be erected, dismantled, transported and reassembled elsewhere by the residents themselves. A Khudi Bari was constructed on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein as an example of a certain architectural mindset and a concrete response to problems exacerbated by the climate crisis.

FONDATION BEYELER TURNS INTO A LIVING ORGANISM

Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2024. Philippe Parreno, Membrane (Membran), 2023, Kybernetische Struktur mit sensomotorischen Fähigkeiten und generativer Sprachverarbeitung, Courtesy der Künstler, © Philippe Parreno; Fujiko Nakaya, Untitled, 2024, Potable water, 600 Meefog nozzles, High pressure pump motor system, Courtesy die Künstlerin, Foto: Mark Niedermann

Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, 2024. Thomas Schütte, Hase, 2013, Bronze, patiniert; Fujiko Nakaya, Untitled, 2024, Potable water, 600 Meefog nozzles, High pressure pump motor system, Courtesy die Künstlerin © 2024, ProLitteris, Zürich. Foto: Mark Niedermann

A ghostly creature roams the fields around the Fondation Beyeler. Outlined against the horizon, a cybernetic tower rises from a dense, hovering fog. They announce the first exhibition to ever transform the museum into an experimental site for contemporary art. Unfolding inside: a sound installation by Cildo Meireles, Adrian Villar Rojas’ fridges and washing machines inhabited by parasites, Rirkrit Tiravanija’s slow-cooking kitchen, Carsten Höller’s Dream Bed. Throughout the summer, the show will evolve into a multifaceted organism nurtured by almost thirty artists, poets, architects, designers, musicians, composers, philosophers and scientists. 

FROM STAR TREK TO BLADE RUNNER

Still image from the film set of Star Trek, 1968
© CBS Photo Archive

Verner Panton, Fantasy Landscape at the exhibition Visiona 2, Cologne, Germany, 1970 © Verner Panton Design AG, Basel

Georges Méliès, still image from the film Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902
© Public Domain

Joe Colombo, Living Center, 1970/71 © Ignazia Favata/Studio Joe Colombo Photo: Rosenthal Einrichtung

Numerous science fiction films – from Star Trek to 2001: A Space Odyssey to Blade Runner – are populated by classic designs that have shaped our image of the future. In reverse, many designers of objects destined for some type of imagined future seek inspiration in the genre of science fiction. The fascinating dialogue between science fiction and design is the subject of the new exhibition “Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse“ at the Vitra Schaudepot. Staged in a futuristic design by artist Andrés Reisinger, over 100 objects from the museum’s collection ranging from examples of early twentieth century design, literature and film to the so-called Space Age of the 1960s and ’70s, as well as contemporary design and digital objects will be on display.