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AO ON SITE: 60th Venice Biennale “Foreigners Everywhere” ↠

April 30th, 2024

Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin at Venice Biennale 2024

Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin at Venice Biennale 2024

The 60th International Art Exhibition, known as the Venice Biennale, is set to run from April 20 to November 24, 2024. This year’s theme, “Stranieri Ovunque” or “Foreigners Everywhere,” is curated by Adriano Pedrosa, marking a significant milestone as the first South American curator of the Biennale Arte. The event is hosted at Venice’s historic Giardini and Arsenale venues, which have been central to the Biennale since its earliest editions. The theme explores the concepts of intersectionality, displacement, and the reevaluation of geographical margins in the art world. 
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London- Yoko Ono at Tate Modern ↠

March 28th, 2024

Yoko Ono at Tate Modern4

Yoko Ono at Tate Modern

“Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind” exhibition at Tate Modern, is on until September 1st and is an expansive journey through Yoko Ono’s artistic legacy, blending music, installations, photography, and interactive performance art. This landmark showcase, the UK’s most extensive collection of Ono’s work, spans her groundbreaking contributions from the early 1950s to today, highlighting her role as a pioneer in avant-garde art circles worldwide.

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Skarstedt London: Jeff Koons ↠

March 12th, 2024

Koons at Skarstedt

Koons at Skarstedt

From 1st March to 25th May 2024, Skarstedt’s London Gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring the work of American artist Jeff Koons. The show includes five mural-sized paintings crafted between 2001 and 2013 drawn from Koons’ series: Easyfun-Ethereal, Antiquity, and Popeye.
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REFERENCE LIBRARY

Matt Saunders

b. 1975
Lives and works in:

Berlin, Germany

Represented by:

Harris Lieberman Gallery

Education includes:

Yale CFA, New Haven, CT
Harvard BA, Cambridge, MA

Saunders, who was born in Tacoma, Washington but now lives and works in Berlin, creates art in a variety of media. His recent exhibitions featured a gallery filled with oil on ink paintings of actors of yesterday alongside a room that contained Double Matti, hand made animated films projected on the gallery’s wall. A third room of the exhibition returns to canvas, featuring his Egomania series of paintings of varying depth.

In 1997, he was awarded both the Louis Sudler Prize and the Thomas H. Hoopes Prize. He was recipient of the Robert Schoelkopf Fellowship in 2001. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, as well as Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum and New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.