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On the occasion of the Berlin Gallery Weekend, Kicken Berlin is dedicating the exhibition 50 Years | 50 Photographs to mark the gallery's 50th anniversary. Selected by Wilhelm Schürmann - collector, photographer and, in 1974, the gallery’s founding partner together with Rudolf Kicken (†2014) - the exhibition presents works from 50 years of gallery history in Aachen, Cologne and Berlin. To this day, the almost 250 exhibitions, numerous publications and…

Aperture announces the second volume to the critically acclaimed self-portrait series Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness. In Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Vol. II, artist Zanele Muholi (born in Umlazi, Durban, South Africa) explores and expands upon notions of Blackness, and the myriad possibilities of self. Since the publication of the first volume, in 2018, Muholi has continued to create self-portraiture in various places around the world. Drawing on different…

At the Galerie Cinéma Anne-Dominique Toussaint, an exhibition on the occasion of the release of the book Les Années Déclic by Raymond Depardon and Gérard Lefort at Éditions du Seuil. From Brigitte Bardot on the set of Vie privée, to Jean-Luc Godard and Jean Seberg during the premiere of Breathless, the artist transposes his photographic gaze on the  late 60's and 70's of cinema. Around thirty  prints showing many iconic…

Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle It is common knowledge that quality and quantity do not go well together. An increase in containers inexorably leads to a weakening of the contents. This Law of Nature, because it is a Law of Nature, also applies to all generative systems and procedures. The damage resulting from an exponential growth, which is often anarchic, ultimately proves to be catastrophic, when it is not fatal. The…

In 2024, Ostend celebrates the 75th anniversary of the passing of the unique painter James Ensor, a Belgian artist from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was an eternal outsider: a school dropout, a mama's boy, a rebel, a world improver, a big ego, a misunderstood prophet, an advocate for the environment and animals. His oeuvre consists of a diverse and intriguing assortment of paintings, drawings, and prints…

The exhibition “Seeing Animals” by Elliot Ross at the Musée de la Photographie Charleroi will be closing on May 26. An Devro writes : Face to face with the animal portraits of the American photographer Elliot Ross, you experience the tension between us and creatures of other species. When you enter the refectory of the former Carmelite convent that is now the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, you are…

Bonhams Skinner proposes he iconic image of Nastassja Kinski, German actress and model at the height of her career, with a Burmese python draped across her body captured by Richard Avedon for Vogue in 1981. It is a highlight of the sale running until May 15. Avedon was commissioned by Vogue to photograph Kinski after the release of Roman Polanski’s movie Tess for which she won a Golden Globe award. Estimated to achieve between US$60,000 – 80,000, the image which evokes the biblical imagery…

Nikkei, Financial Times and Peter Fetterman Gallery present an exhibition tour by photographer Michael Kenna. Titled ‘Japan / A Love story’, the exhibition features 100 hand-crafted prints, highlights of works made in Japan spanning almost four decades. The exhibition visits Tokyo, Los Angeles and London from April through October. Michael Kenna has been photographing landscapes around the world for over fifty years. The in-depth explorations and imagery of Japan, which…

Photographer Rania Matar is the curator of the exhibition Louder Than Hearts: Women Photographers from the Arab World and Iran shown at the Middle East Institute in Washington. This is how it is presented:  Louder Than Hearts features the work of ten women artists from the Arab World and Iran who capture the resilience, strength, beauty, and creativity of women in the region, often in the face of great adversity.…

The Gallerie d'Italia in Turin, presents Cristina Mittermeier : A Greater Wisdom. It is the first retrospective in Europe dedicated to reporter, activist and marine biologist Cristina Mittermeier, running until 1 September 2024. This retrospective, realized in collaboration with The National Geographic, features over 90 photographs by Mittermeier, many displayed for the first time in Europe. These images capture the relationship between human cultures and biodiversity, reflecting Mittermeier's dedication to…

The Berlin gallery is unveiling for the first time in the German capital the work of British visual artist Hannah Hughes. Her works, halfway between photography and sculpture, harbor the coexistence of states, surfaces and perspectives. Something deeply soothing emerges from Hannah Hughes’ collages. Could it be these nuances of the same range of color which come and get undone with each other, these different textures which overlap or these…

James Hyman Gallery presents Nature Nurture. Early Photographs and the Natural World (1849-1914). The exhibition explores our relationship with the natural world, and addresses the ways in which the natural world bears traces of human engagement past and present from the rural world of the peasants tending the land, crops and sheep and cattle, to the urban woods and parks such as the Bois de Boulogne and the Jardin de…

HOUSE Berlin presents the exhibition Séance. Derived from the old french word “seoir” (to sit) for a session or gathering, a “séance” implies the existence and presence of the many. Séance comprises a selection of artworks dealing differently with themes of metaphysical, transcendence, the subconscious, and death, forming a frame of reference around works by artist Jeff Cowen (*New York, 1966). In the realm of contemporary photography, Jeff Cowen’s work…

This is the most unusual portfolio received this week. It is by Paige Vincent, a photographer specializing in tornadoes and extreme weather. She added these few sentences “My goal when chasing is to capture something unique. I truly enjoy combining the art of chasing and photography because those are the two things I’m the most passionate about.” says Paige “My favorite part about the chase is that every storm is…

Photo London will open next week. Michael Diemar published in the latest issue of his magazine, THE CLASSIC, the following article written by Mary Pelletier. “Keep looking – you just started!” This was a directive that I would hear more than once during the day I spent looking at photographs with dealer and collector Robert Hershkowitz. The occasion? I had travelled down to West Sussex to see the selection of…