“The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied. — a project developed by Udo Kittelmann with Thomas Demand, Alexander Kluge and Anna Viebrock — fills the spaces of Ca’ Corner della Regina, Fondazione Prada’s venue in Venice, with artworks, movies and theater sceneries whose cross-pollination and mutual inspiration attest an… Read More
“Extinct in the Wild, conceived and curated by American artist Michael Wang (1981), brings together flora and fauna that are no longer found in nature, but persist exclusively under human care, within an artificial habitat. Labelled with the officially designated term ‘extinct in the wild’, these species have… Read More
“Slight Agitation 2/4: Pamela Rosenkranz, the second iteration of a four-part project of newly commissioned, site-specific works hosted in sequence within the Cisterna, one of the pre-existing buildings at Fondazione Prada’s Milan venue. The title of the project was inspired by the poetic expression ‘une légère agitation’, employed… Read More
“The Osservatorio, a new exhibition space dedicated to photography and visual languages, is located in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. The Osservatorio’s inaugural exhibition “Give Me Yesterday” was curated by Francesco Zanot. The show includes works by 14 Italian and international artists (Melanie Bonajo, Kenta Cobayashi, Tomé Duarte, Irene Fenara, Lebohang Kganye,… Read More
Uneasy Dancer is a comprehensive survey of work by Betye Saar (Los Angeles, 1926). It is the first exhibition of the American artist in Italy, and brings together over 80 works including installations, assemblages, collages and sculptures produced between 1966 and 2016. “Uneasy Dancer” is an expression Betye Saar has used… Read More
“Five Car Stud is considered one of the American artist’s most significant works. Despite the controversy and attention that it earned from critics right from its debut, the piece remained hidden from view in the storage of a Japanese collector for almost forty years. The artwork was only… Read More
“L’image volée,” includes more than 90 works produced by over 60 artists from 1820 through the present day. Demand’s idea for the exhibition is to explore the way we all rely on pre-existing models, and how artists have always referred to existing imagery to make their own. Questioning… Read More
“To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, developed by the artist for Fondazione Prada’s spaces, brings together reflections on seminal issues such as time, beginnings and endings, collapse and renewal. Observing humanity’s concern with the conclusion of mankind, Macuga poses a fundamental question: how important is… Read More
“The Western art tradition has mainly conceived of paintings as frontal (“recto”) artifacts. The back (“verso”) carries significantly less cultural meaning, destined to remain beyond the public’s view, and only visible to the artists themselves or staff at museums and galleries. In this exhibition, artists over the course… Read More
“Fondazione Prada was created in 1993 as an outpost to analyze present times through the staging of contemporary art exhibitions as well as architecture, cinema and philosophy projects. The diversity of the new spaces has become the incentive to develop an experimental, stimulating program in which different languages… Read More
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