Danish young artist collective A Kassen often work with performative installations and sculptures. They were invited to participate at the Laboratorio 987 project within the MUSAC museum in León. Their pieces relate very closely to the building which houses them.
Gakona at the Palais de Tokyo lies at the intersection of fact and rumor, reality and phantasm, science and imagination. It is made up of four solo exhibitions: Micol Assaël, Ceal Floyer, Laurent Grasso and Roman Signer.
Spanish enfant terrible artist Santiago Sierra is notorious for creating morally violent situations with paid “actors” thus making a crude critique of the capitalist operational model.
Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich often teases our perception through playful and humorous installations. Mad Up, Carousel was a piece conceived for the 2008 Liverpool Art Biennial.
Stop-motion video of Polish artist Pawel Althamer’s “Path” intervention at the Münster Skupture Projekte. Turn your head 90º!!
Brazilian world-class sculptor Ernesto Neto talks us through his installation entitled MOTHER BODY EMOTIONAL DENSITIES, FOR ALIVE TEMPLE TIME BABY SON, which was on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Adriana Varejao is a young but notorious Brazilian artist who revisits the history and identity of her country through an array of media. The traditional blue tiles (azulejos) are ever present in her work, rooting it to the Baroque past.
Wolfgang Laib is a German artist who works with essential natural materials such as rice, milk, wax or polen. This video shows his exhibition at the Fondazione Merz in Torino, Italy.
Cildo Meireles is one of Brazil’s most respected and international artists. He is known as a conceptual installation artist.
Japanese contemporary installation artist Mariko Mori often works with quasi-esoteric motifs. At the 2005 Venice Biennale her “Wave UFO” installation invited visitors to take part in a psychodelic trip.