Born in 1983 in Moscow. As his mother was a painter and his father was a dress designer, in his childhood Oleg Dou used to gather with the artists and to spend a lot of time reading is father’s fashion magazines. At the age of 13, his parents offered him his first computer set up with a...

24.02.2011[ read full story ]

The result of a fruitful collaboration of more than eight years between the gallery and the artist, the Almine Rech Gallery present Fthe first exhibition by Hedi Slimane in Brussels.
Fragments Americana follows Young American, a project presented in 2007 at the FOAM Phot...

23.02.2011[ read full story ]

Conceived by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the exhibition PhotoSculpture in Zurich’s Kunsthaus will run from February 25 to May 15, 2011. Imagined by MOMA curator Roxana Marcoci, the exhibition, featuring more than 300 current and historical pictures gathered fro...

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In an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum until August 21st, 2011, renown artist Lorna Simpson reexamines her questions about identity through history and Afro-American photographs. A dialogue with herself and with the spectator.

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Under the title “Haute Culture: General Idea” the Modern Art Museum of Paris (Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris/ARC) presents the first world retrospective of the Canadian collective General Idea that shook up and irradiated the art world from 1969 to ...

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Photographer Alexandra Kremer-Khomassouridze is showing a black and white exhibition about music backstage. Born in Bakou, she grew up in a family of musicians (a cellist, three pianists, two violinists and two harpists) “I lived near music, not in music”, she says. “I listen...

08.03.2011[ read full story ]

Nestan Nijaradze, editor of the Georgian magazine Photo, is presenting for the first time in Moscow an exhibition of six young photographers from her country. Two years after the war that divised the two countries, the exhibition is a local event. But war is not wh...

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Karlheinz Weinberger was an unknown Swiss photographer. Rebel Youth, his first posthumous publication dedicated to his work, gives homage to a Helvetian generation in search of their identity.

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The Moderna Museet of Stockholm is organizing a retrospective of the work of French photographer Jeanloup Sieff (1933-2000). We are proposing two texts, an english version from La Lettre by Anna Tellgren, curator and commissioner of the exhibition. The other version, in french, by jour...

22.02.2011[ read full story ]

In about 10 years, Nicola Erni has built up a unique collection on the 1960s, a vibrant era where European aristocracy mingled with painters, actors, photographers, musicians, writers, royalty and politician in places that have become mythical: Rome, Paris, London, St. Mo...

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