Galerie Templon presented ‘Living Inside’, a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. Featuring a group of new works, both intimate and delicate, the exhibition explored the notion of home and the fragmentation of our daily reality.
Front Design is known for creating playful, avant-garde objects. Shifting between research-driven and experimental projects, the eponymous Swedish design studio embraces tactile and surprising elements to lend their designs a sense of magic.
A contemporary bench by Beauty Ngxongo, with a backrest woven in the traditional Zulu style, brings an age-old South African craft into the 21st century.
Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté invents a poetic, geopolitical and cosmogonic language through compositions made of fragments of coloured textiles.
Pera Museum presents Etel Adnan: Impossible Homecoming, an exhibition bringing together sixty years of work by the eponymous artist and poet.
AFIKARIS Gallery presents Human@Condition, Cameroonian artist Jean David Nkot’s first extensive solo exhibition in France. The exhibition highlights an all-new series of Nkot’s signature hyper-realistic portraits over mapped backgrounds.
The Jewish Museum of Belgium presents ‘Ellis Island’, a group show exploring themes of exile and migration, and reflecting on spaces of dispersion, confinement, and wandering.
Photographer Jean-Francois Jaussaud’s book, “Louise Bourgeois: An Intimate Portrait”, explores the artist’s life and work over eleven years.
French designer Samy Rio creates objects that bridge traditional crafts and modern industrial processes through playful and functional material combinations.
Ernst Gamperl creates large-scale wooden vessels, expertly crafting the material to reveal and express natural details and textures. In this careful and considered process, knots, bulges, splits, indentations, and scars are elevated, shown to be integral parts of the material’s history and lifespan.
Brian Rochefort’s sculptural ceramics are fraught with unexpected surface tension, resulting in cups, vessels and wall pieces that reveal vibrant colours, fissures, density and textures that at times seem to ooze off the surface.
Stefano Boeri believes in building high-density skyscrapers for trees inhabited by humans, which are aimed at improving quality of life by inviting nature into the city. If he had his way, our planet would be populated by entire sustainable, self-sufficient and smart forest cities.