Candida Höfer has created a new series of works in Liechtenstein. It forms the starting point and the centrepiece of the first exhibition conceived jointly by Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Hilti Art Foundation. Höfer shot the photographs, numbering twenty, in the autumn and winter of 2021 specifically for the show. The series reflects the artist’s ongoing exploration of scenes of cultural life and architecture.

Candida Höfer: Liechtenstein will be the first exhibition to span all four skylight galleries of the Kunstmuseum and the three exhibition rooms of the Hilti Art Foundation. In conjunction with more than sixty selected works from classical modernism to the present, the result is a mutually enriching dialogue between Höfer and the collections of both institutions.

The Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht is presenting the first retrospective ever by the illustrious photographer Werner Mantz (1901, Cologne-1983, Maastricht); 40 years after his death.

Mantz is regarded worldwide as one of the most important architectural photographers of the Neues Bauen movement. With the exhibition "The Perfect Eye," the Bonnefantenmuseum demonstrates why Mantz's work (also) belongs to the canon of Dutch photography and presents his complete oeuvre for the first time. Through his visual language, his use of natural lighting, and his craftsmanship, he occupies a unique position in the history of photography; Mantz had the perfect eye.

With 100 positions by contemporary artists from the international Roosen-Trinks Collection, the association KUNST für ANGELN e.V. presents their second exhibition at Wittkielhof. Located in the midst of greenery in Angeln, in the northernmost region of Schleswig-Holstein, the manor house, the converted barn and its beautiful park offer the perfect art location for the exhibition CITY – COUNTRY – CONNECTIVITY. Artists reflect on the ideas and desires that we associate with the spaces "city" and "country" and open up new perspectives.

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The "hyper" in the title of the exhibition "HYPERsculptures" includes a variety of meaning. In addition to the extraordinary size of the artworks, "hyper" also refers to the latest, innovative multimedia technologies that the exhibiting artists use for their large light sculptures. The dissolution of the distance between viewer and the work of art is the common, luminous bond of all "HYPERsculptures". In Unna, visitors can experience how light works, directs perception and completely redefines spaces. Each work in the exhibition will occupy a space of 20 x 6 meters and will provide visitors with unforgettable and lasting experiences.

In November 2022, the German-Canadian co-production CHOM5KY vs CHOMSKY: A playful conversation on Al will celebrate its world premiere in Berlin. Created by Sandra Rodriguez it's not so much an exhibition project, but rather an engaging virtual reality experience shared by visitors, inviting them to explore the promises and possibilities as well as the obstacles, pitfalls and risks of AI, and to critically question the automation of intelligent human behaviour. Through various forms of games, CHOM5KY vs CHOMSKY demonstrates the limits and possibilities of machine learning while highlighting the human capacity for creativity, research and collaboration.

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From November 11 to 13, 2022, the 8th edition of Luxembourg Art Week will be dedicated to the social and technological challenges of our time. Luxembourg's international contemporary art fair will take place in a specially constructed temporary building on Glacis-Square - in the heart of the city, which has been a Unesco World Heritage since 1994.

Luxembourg Art Week 2022 brings together 80 galleries, artist collectives and institutions in three sections. It thus covers 14 countries and 5 continents, 85% are foreign exhibitors. At the same time, the fair remains locally rooted, which is evident in the participation of numerous regional galleries and artist collectives.

With the German painter Ruth Baumgarte (1923 - 2013), the ALBERTINA presents an outstanding female artist of the 20th century. The focus of the show African Vision in the Pfeilerhalle is Baumgarte's comprehensive body of work, which is based on the artist's journeys to African countries such as Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan and Zimbabwe.

From the 1950s until her old age, the artist travelled to Africa more than forty times, where she observed the people attentively and empathised with them. She was interested in the foreign cultures of a continent that was still undiscovered by European artists at the time.

The exhibition will show various engagements with waste as the repressed remains of our civilization. The artists whose works are exhibited here share the desire to visualize the global and ecological consequences of our consumption.

The The twenty-five artistic perspectives presented, including those of Julien Creuzet, Agnes Denes, and Hira Nabi, address those impacts of our production of goods and waste that are normally hidden from view. While some works turn on the waste generated in other countries or focus on the pollution of the environment, Romy Rüegger, Eric Hattan are among those to present new works that are of direct relevance to the Basel context. The exhibition’s starting point is the present, as exemplified by installations, videos, sculptures, photographs, and performances, while a selection of historical works proves that pollution and the environmental devastation caused by the extraction of raw materials was a concern of artists even in the 1960s. The artist Jean Tinguely also produced works that critique consumer society. It was these that prompted Museum Tinguely to embark on a show that would tackle what is left behind, i.e. waste, from today’s geopolitical perspective.

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In autumn, the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation celebrates its 20th anniversary. The universal talent Alfred Ehrhardt is presented in the full breadth of his work – from painting and photography to film. The anniversary exhibition is curated by the foundation team Dr. Christiane Stahl, Stefanie Odenthal, Dr. Marie Christine Jádi and Rosa Russo. Under the motto »four women, four views«, very personal highlights from Alfred Ehrhardt's extensive oeuvre and the Foundation's rich archive fund will be shown. These include favourite pieces and favourite stories, works that have never been shown before, previously lost works, as well as archival materials.

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Around 30 international contemporary artworks of the "Art'Us Collectors' Collective" are shown in the exhibition. Uncertainty characterises the mood in which our society currently finds itself. The assembled works trace the rough, unformed, porous, unfinished, but also the reduced. They are expressions of a necessary transition, which consists of recognising and accepting social responsibility. In the Kühlhaus Berlin, an industrial monument, the exhibition fuses with the provisional , unfinished aesthetic of its environment and addresses the effects of capitalism and consumerism.

The 2023 VR ART PRIZE by DKB in cooperation with CAA Berlin themed “Virtual Utopias” is dedicated to artists using virtual reality and large-scale installations to create visions for social change. All artists living in Germany working with the medium of virtual reality (VR) and using this technology in their artistic practice are eligible to apply. While rapid digitization is creating new virtual realms for experiencing art, virtual worlds are becoming part of our present through increasing use of VR and the dawning of the metaverse, the digital extension of our physical reality.

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The 27th edition of the contemporary art exhibition ROHKUNSTBAU will be held for the first time at Castle Altdöbern. In the building, which is not normally open for visitors, the works of international artists such as Cindy Sherman can be seen until October 30, 2022. This year's exhibition title "Zukunft - Ins Offene" not only describes a common feature of the paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations on display. It also refers to the numerous metamorphoses that this southern Brandenburg place has experienced over the past centuries.

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Is this an exhibition or a staging? URBAN NATURE is both—an experiential space and a role-playing game. The new and most complex exhibition project produced by the author and director team of Rimini Protokoll centers on the theme of urban society. How do we imagine the future in the city? What form could living together in solidarity take in the future?

A world of different urban spaces comes together in the exhibition spaces of Kunsthalle Mannheim and have the effect of a walk-in labyrinth. This interactive installation opens up new perspectives, encourages visitors to break out of their own realities, and facilitates unexpected experiences. In video walks visitors engage actively with the work.

The Bonnefanten Museum presents Melati Suryodarmo as the eleventh winner of the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art (BACA) with her first big solo exhibition in Europe and the Netherlands. Suryodarmo is a versatile artist, but is particularly known for her compelling performances. In her work, she interprets strong political and social insights in a poetic and physical visual idiom.

The exhibition title I am a Ghost in My Own House comes from Suryodarmo’s performance of the same name, which lasts for twelve hours. In this performance, she grinds charcoal on a stone mortar, exhausting herself. In addition to performances, the works in the exhibition include video installations, photographs and drawings.

Greek artist Loukia Alavanou presents her 360-degree VR film Oedipus In Search Of Colonus at the Greek Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. In Alavanou's film, the plot of Sophocles' last, nearly 2500-year-old drama Oedipus in Colonus is translated into the present by the artist. Using amateur actors from a Roma community living in a shantytown just outside modern-day Athens, Alavanou's VR film retells the plot of the ancient drama.

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KUNSTKRAFTWERK initiated and is now presenting TÜBKE MONUMENTAL, offering an utterly new way of looking at one of the most important works of twentieth-century figurative painting, Werner Tübke’s Frühbürgerliche Revolution in Deutschland. Using the latest digitization technologies, the monumental Peasants' War panorama will be preserved for coming generations and will once again be visible to a wide public.

The immersive multimedia installation THE GREAT CIRCLE by new media artist Franz Fischnaller is a homage to Tübke's monumental painting. Selected scenes glide across the walls of the KUNSTKRAFTWERK in a brilliant resolution.

TÜBKE TOUCH – a cloud-based ArtCentrica application makes it possible to zoom in on the work and an immediate and intensive engagement with the work.

In the north of Mallorca near Alcúdia, nestled in a nature reserve directly on the sea, lies the Museo Sa Bassa Blanca. Recognised as a cultural heritage site of the Balearic Islands in 2016, the property is the home of the Yannick and Ben Jakober Foundation, founded in 1993, and the life's work of the artist and collector couple. It holds impressive surprises and discoveries in store for visitors. As a synthesis of the arts, it combines art, architecture and nature from different epochs and regions of the world.

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From the 19th century to the present, the reciprocal network of relationships between art and literature on Lake Constance is being examined for the first time across countries and genres. The exhibition shows how numerous artists and writers realized joint projects and supported each other. These new synergies are inserted into the exhibition in the context of the inspiring networks. The Zeppelin Museum is presenting around 200 exhibits and, in addition to works by Otto Dix and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, is also showing little-known exhibits by artists who are mainly known for their literary work, such as the silhouettes by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff or the Lake Constance watercolours by Hermann Hesse.

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