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Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history

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In place of plastic, the Ghanaian artist enfolded the building in a material evocative of global labour and trade—jute sacks made in Southeast Asia and imported to Ghana for the transportation of cocoa beans to European markets. The Kunsthalle recently relived the moment with another monumental intervention, this time by Ibrahim Mahama.

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New venue for video, sound and other durational art forms coming to Manhattan

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A new venue for durational art, Canyon , will open its doors on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2026. The 40,000 sq.

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Katharina Grosse: ‘Imagination doesn’t have a scale’

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The Stuttgart exhibition shows the multidimensionality of the work that’s not yet sculptural, really, but that has all these different perspectives of materiality, of visceral impact on your ability to digest visual forms. It is almost a happy coincidence that I have the possibility to show the whole range in a single moment this year.

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From a football feast to deceitful dolphins: three art exhibitions not to miss at the Manchester International Festival

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Photo: CRISIS Gallery The Whitworth gallery has pulled off a coup with the first international solo show dedicated to Santiago Yahuarcani, the Indigenous activist and leader of the Aimeni (White Heron) clan of the Uitoto people in northern Peru (4 July-4 January 2026).