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Small carved figures, knotted fringes and historic hats represent Outi Pieski’s Sámi heritage as do her luminous painted landscapes and they work powerfully in her show at Tate St Ives to highlight systemic injustices to land and people

Shows in London, Southampton and St Ives are introducing a wider audience to the work of artists from the far north

This spring, Tate St Ives will present the UK’s first large-scale exhibition of work by Outi Pieski (Ciske-Jovsset Biret Hánsa Outi)

The International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia awarded Lebanese Ali Cherri with the Silver Lion for Promising Young Participant.

2021 top news in art: Late Samsung chairmans art trove excites museums, NFT ignites debate

2021 Top news in art: Late Samsung chairmans art trove excites museums, NFT ignites debate

Highlights from the Gwangju Biennale Curated by Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala, this year’s edition explores transnational kinships and inherited healing practices to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Gwangju May Uprising One of Asia’s most prominent art exhibitions, the Gwangju Biennale – originally slated for 2020, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic – opened its 13th edition exploring the limits of individual cognition and the transcendent possibilities o...

Gwangju Biennale explores wide spectrum of art touching the communal mind Posted : 2021-04-08 11:30 Updated : 2021-04-08 12:21 The 13th Gwangju Biennale exhibition shows Outi Pieskis "Beavvit II/ Rising Together II," left, and Min Joung-kis landscape painting, "Byeokgye Nine Banded Stream," Buk-gu, Gwangju, April 1. Yonhap By Lee Gyu-lee The coronavirus pandemic has changed so much of peoples lives and the ways things are done. The Gwangju Biennale is no exception....

ArtReview Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala, artistic directors of the 13th Gwangju Biennale, 2021. Photo: choi.ok.soo. ‘‘We are convinced that access to spirit-worlds can help us to move beyond linear and hierarchical genealogies of knowledge that has been shaped by and through extractive forces and colonial modernity.’’ After two postponements, the 13th Gwangju Biennale, titled Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning is set to open this April. ArtReview Asia caught up with its artistic directors...

The Noospheric Society (2021). Courtesy the artist. Angelo Plessas was doing plank pose in the narrow space between the foot of his bed and the hotel wall. Several of his quilted sculptures were spread out beneath him to soften the hard floor. Hotel staff dropped off warm meals several times a day. “It is sort of like a residency,” the Greek artist told me over a WhatsApp call on day seven of his 14-day quarantine in an 18-square-meter room in Seoul. (The artist had been uploading the foota...