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Category Archives: Contemporary

Frozen Lakes

Frozen Lakes January 20 – March 24, 2013 (then extended through March 31, 2013) Artists Space, New York Statement: «In his essay accompanying the 1977 exhibition Pictures at Artists Space, and in a subsequent text published by October in 1979, the art historian Douglas Crimp introduced the work of a generation of artists, and their […]

Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud

Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud MoMA PS1, New York January 20 – April 1, 2013 Statement: «Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden in 2007 as a design and research studio, Metahaven has come to define a new methodology in graphic design. The studio’s speculative practice privileges the vocabulary of graphic design as […]

Graphic Advocacy:
International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012

Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012 first held on January 15 – March 2, 2013 Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, Massachusetts (now traveling: see the schedule) Statement: «As a medium for social change, posters record our struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from […]

Most Valuable Publishers at Rookie Festival

MVP – MOST VALUABLE PUBLISHERS December 6-8, 2012 / Rookie Festival, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznań PL December 29, 2012 – January 13, 2013 / Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań PL Cura­tor: Honza Zamojski Arti­sts: «The sports ana­logy of the ROOKIE FESTIVAL is exten­ded thro­ugh to the MVP exhi­bi­tion, apply­ing the title to the Most Valuable Publishers […]

The Carpetalogue / MM (Paris)

The Carpetalogue / MM (Paris) Libby Sellers Gallery, London October 10 – December 15, 2012 Statement: «Gallery Libby Sellers presents a series of elaborately detailed and intricately woven carpet designs by the French art and design duo M/M (Paris). Commissioned in celebration of both their twentieth anniversary and the publication of a definitive monograph of […]

Small Stories Bigger Picture (Visual Storytelling)

Small Stories Bigger Picture MOTI Museum of the Image, Breda, NL September 13 – December 16, 2012 Curators: Sven Ehmann (Gestalten) and Dennis Elbers (MOTI) Statement: «Who doesn’t want to fly like a bird? And who doesn’t want to witness that? Human Bird wings, a portrait of the fictitious character Jarno Smeets and his attempts […]

Wide White Space
The Book

Wide White Space (The Way Beyond Art) was an exhibition held in 2011 at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco – aimed at investigating ‘graphic design’s evolving relationship with the practice of exhibition making as it intersects with the visual arts and the work of both artists and curators’ –, a series of lectures, […]

Shots and Quotes from the Conference
Graphic Design, Exhibiting, Curating

Some shots and quotes from the conference Graphic Design, Exhibiting, Curating that we organized on June 26. A publication including the talks and extracts from the discussion will follow in Autumn-Winter 2012. «People who disagree with the exhibition of graphic design give the argument, among others, that graphic design is about context, and the exhibition […]

Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2011

Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2011 (awarded in January 2012) first held at Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich, July 5-8, 2012 and later traveling to other venues (see schedule) Statement: «The competition ‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’ on an annual basis. It thereby recognizes excellence in the field of book design and production, as well drawing attention to […]

Zak Kyes Working With…
Chicago

Zak Kyes Working With… from Graham Foundation on Vimeo. Zak Kyes Working With… Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, June 14 – September 23, 2012 See the older post about Zak Kyes Working With… in Leipzig and in London.