Power Station of Art announces the opening of the 13th Shanghai Biennale
The flow and flush of waters sustain our own bodies, but also connect them to other bodies, to other worlds beyond our human selves. Astrida Neimanis
SHANGHAI
.- The Power Station of Art announced the opening of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water. For the first time, the biennale will unfold as an in crescendo project.
Challenging the usual art biennale format, it is the first stage of an eight-month extended program that will allow the artists, thinkers and curators contributing to the Biennale to develop their work in close collaboration with the City of Shanghai, its people, networks of activism, organizations, and institutions. Bodies of Water will culminate with the opening of PHASE 03: AN EXHIBITION on April 10, 2021.
New book features striking portraits by Oliver Jordan
Oliver Jordan, Pablo Picasso, oil on canvas, 2012, 75 × 65 cm. Collection Knuth Feist.
NEW YORK
.- What significance does portrait painting have today? What does it say? What presence does it have? What appreciation does it experience and what sense does it now make? This publications endeavours to explore these questions.The inclined viewer and reader will have the opportunity to familiarise him or herself with the artist Oliver Jordan and his models, both via the painterly process,the accompanying texts, and via his dialogue with Ralf-P. Seippel. The painter, the people portrayed and the viewer encounter each other in a conversation that spans different times and historical periods. In a time of inflated, narcissistically sugar-coated selfpresentations, portrait painting is proving its outstanding position once again.
GEM to become KM21: New name underlines link with Kunstmuseum Den Haag
The introduction of the new name will be accompanied by the launch of a new logo and website (www.km21.nl).
THE HAGUE
.- From 2021 GEM museum of contemporary art in The Hague will be known as KM21. KM refers to Kunstmuseum Den Haag, and 21 to the art of the twenty-first century. The new name will make the museum more clearly recognisable as a partner to Kunstmuseum Den Haag (and its collection), which also encompasses Fotomuseum Den Haag.
Since it opened in 2002 GEM museum of contemporary art has been part of the same organisation and under the same management, but few make the link between the two museums, and even less so since the mother museum changed its name from Gemeentemuseum Den Haag to Kunstmuseum Den Haag in October 2019, explains director Benno Tempel. Thats a shame, because the link between an institute for contemporary art and an international art museum and its collection is the on