CURRENT EXHIBITS [796]

The National Drawing Invitational continues the Arkansas Arts Center's commitment to collect and exhibit drawings of all periods. The Arkansas Arts Center began its collection of drawings in 1971 when AAC Director and Chief Curator Townsend Wolfe purchased Willem de Kooning and Andrew Wyeth works on paper. Today the drawing collection includes over 5,000 sheets. In 1986, Wolfe created the first Na...   [more]

Opening: April 20th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The Arkansas Arts Center will commemorate the centennial of Winthrop Rockefeller's birth with the exhibition "The Rockefeller Influence." This exhibition will include works that have come into the permanent collection as a result of the Rockefeller family. It will also tell the story of the major role Winthrop Rockefeller, his wife Jeannette and members of the Rockefeller family had in the creation an...   [more]

Opening: May 25th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

In September 2011 ARKEN received a very generous donation from The Merla Art Foundation, London, founded by Dennis and Jytte Merla Dresing, consisting of a total of eight works by the world-famous British artist Damien Hirst (b. 1965). This means that ARKEN’s collection has been enriched with a fine representation of one of the absolutely central artists of recent times. Damien Hirst’s works ra...   [more]

Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction surveys the recent tendency for artists and filmmakers to apply the forms and concerns of science fiction to narratives situated in the African continent. It considers the complex undercurrents for this occurrence in art today, and posits other and possible realities existing simultaneously, via careful re-orientations of tense; elevating the need for vigilan...   [more]

Opening: May 5th, 2012   11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Presenting an exciting exhibition of work by Telfer Stokes, a major East Anglian artist whose muscular sculptures hewn from industrial off-cuts evoke a verbose bravado and yet hint at a softer dimension through the artist's choice of colour, and witty use of an oft-forgotten medium: titles. Each sculpture can be viewed as an appreciation of texture, form and structure, but beholding the greater wo...   [more]

Curator Yuka Nakamura says that KI (氣in Chinese) - a concept derived from ancient times in Japan - accrues when we breathe. Breathing involves inhaling and exhaling; the two acts are inseparable and the intervals between them generate different kinds of rhythms. It is the rhythm of life that we feel ourselves and creates the impression that we convey to others.  BREATHING, featuring mixed media wo...   [more]

Opening: May 11th, 2012   3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Characterized by a tension between the visible and invisible, and the juxtaposition of emptiness and abundance, the work of American painter Judith Trepp explores the uncanny interaction of line, surface and space. Art Forum Ute Barth is delighted to present a solo exhibition of the artist's recent works that continue her enquiry into the relationship between expression and subjective experience, as we...   [more]

Opening: May 25th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The first major exhibition to explore the influence of the Symbolist movement on Australian art at the turn of the 19th century. Rather than representing the real world, Symbolist artists sought to suggest altered realities as conjured by the mind. To evoke ideas, dreams and sensations, they envisaged poetic landscapes, femme fatales, and figures drawn from spiritual and mythological terrains...   [more]

Opening: May 11th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This exhibition of works by Jacky Redgate from the Gallery’s collection surveys the artist’s creative trajectory from the 1980s until now. Suspended in tense moments of imprecision, Redgate’s body of work asks the viewer to question what things are and what they can be. In her hands, photographs appear as objects, objects look like sculptures, and sculptures are rendered invisible. Reflecting on the tradition...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

DAMAGED – thalidomide victims in medical documents makes specific reference to the tragedy surrounding the pharmaceutical drug thalidomide. The monumental works made using traditional techniques of oil painting are based on medical photographs and documents. The images, mostly from the 1960s and ’70s, have been assembled from archives, medical books, period journals and, in some cases, directly...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Art Plural Gallery is pleased to announce the inaugural solo exhibition of British artist Ian Davenport in Singapore. The exhibition titled Ian Davenport: Between the Lines runs from 11th May through 7th July, 2012 and features new paintings which the artist has specifically created for this exhibition. In conjunction with the exhibition will be the publication of Ian Davenport: Between the Lines, a fu...   [more]

Opening: June 1st, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Podium I         30 Jahre Zürcher Kultur aus der Sicht des Kulturförderers und KünstlersFreitag, 29. Juni  18.30  Uhrmit Paul Sieber und Jean-Pierre HobyModeration und Kurzrefarat: Jean-Pierre Hoby    Podium II:Thema: Die Kunst und das Spiel mit den IllusionenFreitag, 06. Juli, 18.30 Uhr mit Elisabeth Eberle, Regula Michell und Paul Sieber Moderation und Kurzreferat: Iso Camartin    [more]

Opening: June 15th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Memory is a paradoxical thing, central to the formation of the self, yet fugitive and difficult to pin down. Memories become attenuated with the passage of time, yet can come rushing back in an instant under certain conditions. From the simple act of marking time to the recording of complex events, The Residue of Memory examines the diverse ways that events can leave their mark, and how objects and...   [more]

Opening: June 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Employing a hybrid methodology located somewhere between research project, retail display, and promotional campaign, Simon Denny's diverse artistic practice reflects on the production, distribution, and consumption of media in an age of accelerated technological obsolescence and relentless cultural overproduction. Through a variety of media, including photographs, sculpture, video, and printed ep...   [more]

Opening: May 18th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Gaze upwards at Choi Jeong Hwa's signature inflatable flowers as they burst into bloom inside the Gallery's atrium. Described as the 'bad boy of Korean art', Choi's eye-popping work turns an overabundance of petals into a joyful jumble of flowers that spill illuminated from the atrium's ceiling. Choi's installations are one of three temporary commissioned works which celebrate the opening of the de...   [more]