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Lydia Ourahmane
Lydia Ourahmane (born 1992, Saïda, Algeria) is an artist based in Barcelona, London and Algiers. Ourahmane has had recent solo exhibitions at MACBA, Barcelona, SculptureCentre, New York; rhizome, Algiers; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; S.M.A.K Ghent; Portikus, Frankfurt; De Appel, Amsterdam; Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and Chisenhale Gallery, London. Her work was included in the 60th Venice Biennale, 15th Gwangju Biennale, 15th Istanbul Biennial (2017), 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021), New Museum Triennial and Manifesta 12, Palermo (2018). Career Ourahmane work has been exhibited internationally since she graduated from Goldsmiths University London in 2014. Ourahmane's research-driven practice spans spirituality, contemporary geopolitics, migration, and the complex histories of colonialism. She incorporates video, sound, performance, sculpture, and installation on an often large or monumental scale that has consequences beyond the walls of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saïda, Algeria
Saïda ( ar, سعيدة, Latn, ar, saʿīda, ) is a commune and the capital city of Saïda Province, Algeria. Location Saïda is located in north-western Algeria, on the southern slopes of the Tell Atlas mountain range at the northern fringe of the High Plateaus. The city lies on the right bank of the Wadi Saïda, protected by wooded mountains on the opposite shore that rise steeply from the valley floor to an elevation of some 4,000 feet (1,200 metres). file:حي داودي موسى.JPG, Saïda, Algeria File:حي قصديري بمحاذاة واد ملوث.jpg, Saïda, Algeria file:زاوية مولاي الطيب بسعيدة.JPG, Saïda, Algeria History The city's site has been of military importance ever since the Romans built a fort there. Saïda was a stronghold of Abd al-Qadir, the Algerian national leader, who burned the town as French forces approached it in 1844. Modern Saïda was founded as a French military outpost in 1854 and once housed a regiment of the Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst
The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (commonly abbreviated as S.M.A.K., translated as ''City Museum for Contemporary Art'') is a relatively new museum located in Ghent, Belgium, and is renowned both for its permanent collection (Art & Language, Karel Appel, Francis Bacon, Panamarenko, Andy Warhol, etc.) and for its provocative exhibitions. History The new museum opened to the public on 7 May 1999. The collection concentrates on international developments in art after 1945, and was based upon works collected by the Contemporary Art Museum Association (created on 8 November 1957 at the instigation of ) and the Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst (set up in 1975 as the first Belgian museum devoted to contemporary art, housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, with Jan Hoet appointed as director). After Jan Hoet retired from the museum on December 1, 2003, Peter Doroshenko was in charge. After a trial period of one year, he was dismissed. The dismissal of Doroshenko caused much commotion. Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Saïda
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Algerian Women Artists
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Living People
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1992 Births
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21st-century Algerian Artists
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ARTnews
''ARTnews'' is an American visual-arts magazine, based in New York City. It covers art from ancient to contemporary times. ARTnews is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. It has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countries. It includes news dispatches from correspondents, investigative reports, reviews of exhibitions, and profiles of artists and collectors. History and operations The magazine was founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as ''Hydes Weekly Art News'' and was originally published eleven times a year. From vol. 3, no. 52 (November 5, 1904) to vol. 21, no. 18 (February 10, 1923), the magazine was published as ''American Art News''. From February 1923 to the present, the magazine has been published as ''The Art News'' then ''ARTnews''. The magazine's art critics and correspondents include Arthur Danto, Linda Yablonsky, Barbara Pollock, Margarett Loke, Hilarie Sheets, Yale School of Art dean Robert Storr, Doug McClemont and Museum of Modern Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Letter
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Daniel Blumberg
Daniel Blumberg is an English artist, musician, songwriter and composer from London who works between drawing, improvisation, song form and film. Music career From 2005 to 2009, Blumberg was a founding member and lead singer for the band Cajun Dance Party. From 2009-2013, Blumberg was frontman and guitarist for the indie rock band Yuck. 'Unreal' by Hebronix, produced by Neil Michael Hagerty, was released by ATP Recordings in 2013. This was followed by a split single with Neil Michael Hagerty, released under the name Heb-Hex Since 2013, Blumberg has worked mostly around Cafe Oto utilising Oto Project Space and working regularly with Seymour Wright, Billy Steiger, Tom Wheatley, Ute Kanngiesser, Ross Lambert and Elvin Brandhi. His shows are sometimes completely improvised or incorporate improvisation within his songs. He most frequently plays Steinberger guitar, piano, harmonica and sings. Blumberg collaborates with many different musicians live changing from show to show. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KW Institute For Contemporary Art
The KW Institute for Contemporary Art (also known as Kunst-Werke) is a contemporary art institution located in Auguststraße 69 in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. Klaus Biesenbach was the founding director of KW; the current director is Krist Gruijthuijsen. KW collaborates with other national and international contemporary art venues, such as MoMA PS1 in New York City, New York, the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf/Berlin, Mophradat in Belgium, and the Ernst Schering Foundation, Schering Stiftung in Berlin. History The Institute was founded July 1, 1991, less than two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in a derelict Berlin factory that once produced margarine. Its founders were Klaus Biesenbach, thena 25-year old medical student, the Swiss actress Alexandra Binswanger, Clemens Homburger, an architecture student, Philipp von Doering, a student of communications design, and Alfonso Rutigliano, an architecture student. The Institute's building, which it still occupies, is lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiels
Wiels is a contemporary art centre situated in Forest, in the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ... in a former brewery. The centre opened in 2007. It has three exhibition platforms with a total exhibition space of , an auditorium, studio workshops for artists-in-residence, and a café/foyer and bookshop in the former brewing hall. Wiels has no collection, instead putting on temporary exhibitions by national and international artists. Wiels hosts nine artist-in-residency studios, for which it receives hundreds of applications every year. For its tenth anniversary in 2017, Wiels organized a group exhibition called The Absent Museum, a reference to the incorrect assumption that Wiels is an art museum. Building history In 1931, the Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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