Flash Art uses cookies strictly necessary for the proper functioning of the website, for its legitimate interest to enhance your online experience and to enable or facilitate communication by electronic means. To learn more about cookies please see Terms & conditions

Flash Art
Flash Art
Shop
  • Home
    • CURRENT ISSUE
  • Features
    • Conversations
    • Reviews
    • Report
    • On View
    • FLASH FEED
    • Audacious Advice
    • Dance Office
    • Listening In
    • The Uncanny Valley
    • Flashback
    • (In)Visible Hands
    • PARADIGME
  • STUDIOS
    • Dune
    • Flash Art Mono
  • Archive
    • DIGITAL EDITION
    • Shop
    • Subscription
    • INSTITUTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION
    • Contact
→
Flash Art

330 April-May 2020, On View

16 May 2020, 1:00 pm CET

Annie Fletcher / Director of IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

May 16, 2020

ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world to select the best current and upcoming international exhibitions.

“… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace”
Kunsthalle Wien
Through October 4, 2020

Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Hito Steyerl and Miloš Trakilović, Mission Accomplished: Belanciege, 2019. Film still. Courtesy of the artists; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; and Esther Schipper, Berlin. © of VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

We were all excited to see what WHW would do after taking over as the directors of Kunsthalle Wien, and true to form they are intellectually robust and sincere creative collaborators, experts in touching a nerve, exploring our immediate context and making a group exhibition feel truly resonant. WHW form ideas and communities though exhibitions like nobody else! Can’t wait to see what the next five years will bring.

Bharti Kher “A CONSUMMATE JOY”
IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Through May 17, 2020

Bharti Kher, Sisters, 2019. Clay, cement, wax, copper. 57 × 11 × 11 in. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York / London / Los Angeles / Hong Kong / Zurich / St. Moritz.

Bharti Kher is an extraordinary artist. There is such a sculptural and aesthetic intelligence to her work. It makes the immediate shutdown of her just-opened show at IMMA due to covid-19 even more distressing — this work needs to be physically enjoyed! Kher’s found objects resonate with different geographic and social surroundings. Materials feel intimate and recognizable, and yet they are transformed into something physically arresting and beautiful.

Gabriel Kuri “spending static to save gas”
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Through March 28, 2020

Gabriel Kuri, spending static to save gas, 2020. Installation. Photography by Louis Haugh. Courtesy of the artist and the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.

The Douglas Hyde Galley (DHG) in Dublin is such a physically arresting, cavernous, and brutal cube; it is always a challenge for artists. This exhibition really does transform the space. The large-scale installation is made up of a makeshift dropped ceiling littered with random detritus: coins, cigarette butts, and moths. A strange clash between scale and objects that are random yet familiar. It’s rare to see an artist handle such a mammoth space with such delicate precision and dexterity.

Share this article
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Mail
Find more stories

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: The Song of the Land is Calling

1 February 2023, 9:00 am CET

The day-to-day reality in occupied Palestine is largely inaccessible to an international audience. It is challenging to form a deep,…

Read More

In Pursuit of the Masquerade. A Conversation with My Barbarian

26 January 2023, 9:00 am CET

“We were born Generation X, officially, which is embarrassing to admit but true,” says interdisciplinary artist and member of My…

Read More

Extinction and Extraction: Archival Politics in the Work of Jumana Manna

19 January 2023, 9:00 am CET

Every year when I teach my art history class deconstructing the Western tradition of modernism I start with Romanticism, anchoring…

Read More

Anne Imhof “YOUTH” Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam

16 January 2023, 9:00 am CET

My generation confronts the anxiety of death in a new and peremptory way. I was reflecting on this as I…

Read More

  • Next

    Emily Mae Smith: A Broom of One’s Own

  • Previous

    Lygia Clark “Painting as an Experimental Field, 1948–1958” Guggenheim Museum / Bilbao

© 2023 Flash Art

  • Terms & conditions
  • Contact
  • Work with Us