The beginning of his artistic career is characterized by the development and practice
of urban interventions, using and experiencing the city in support of action, reflection and inspiration for his work.
He participated in Fugue Urbaine, a festival of
urban interventions in Montreal, and also in the group exhibition «Like tears in the rain,» curated by Ana Luiza Teixeira de Freitas, at Palácio das Artes, in Porto, Portugal.
Emphasizing that the city is not just a theme park for the wealthy, Megawords works with artists in producing publications; non-profit, renegade, pop - up storefronts; and
other urban interventions as a counterpoint to shop - til - you drop capitalist urbanism.
In the interview, the amusing couple tells us their work stimulate the public to see
urban intervention as a debating tool and to reflect about the city.
Erik L. Peterson's public works take the form of large
scale urban interventions that stretch and strain utopian ideas of design and function until ordinary objects slip toward the extraordinary.
In the course of two decades, Antonio Bokel has presented his work in Brazil and abroad, either in galleries or
through urban interventions, connecting street art to contemporary art.
In early 2010 when he returned to Brazil, drawing from the strong influence of his experience in England, started a new production, where all his research so far conducted
on urban intervention became a reference to an aesthetic and conceptual work in the studio.
Massimi liano Gioni, 41, artistic director of the New Museum, as well as the director of the Trussardi Foundation, calls it «one of the most
powerful urban interventions in the history of land art.»
Courtesy the artist Lin Yilin is a versatile and internationally significant artist whose work has been marked strongly by his
provocative urban interventions — an approach with deep resonance given the increasing attention to the politics of space and insurgent actions in the climate of the Occupy movement.
2006 SCAPE 06, Biennial of Art in Public Space, Christchurch, NZ Urban Funke, encuentro in ternacional de cultura urbana, Barcelona, ES Big City Lab, curated show at Art Forum Berlin with Upstream Gallery, Berlin, DE Liste 06, Art Fair Basel with Upstream Gallery, CH Urban explorations, public space - art festival, Dordrecht, NL That was then, this is now, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL Influenza etc. / Variations in
Urban Intervention Art, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Connected - Disconnected, Proyector 2011 Video Art Festival Madrid, ES
Corporate Urban Interventions, Stowarzyszenie OFFicyna Szczecin, PL / Smolny University St.Petersburg, RU / Arteles Tampere / Estonian Academy of Arts Tallinn, EE Figure it out - performance in video art, Arad Art Museum, RO / Goethe Institute Kiev, UA / City Art Gallery Kharkiv, RU The Cu Chi Tunnels, Waterside Project Space London, UK
Other big hitters are the Americans Theaster Gates,
whose urban interventions include turning empty buildings into artist communes that double as living exhibitions, and Sharon Lockhart, whose photographs and films capture the everyday lives of labourers around the world.
In collaboration with Teatro del Lido di Ostia, Urban Area Project invited four artists to participate in
various urban interventions and workshops in schools in Rome in 2015.
Dennis Adams is a visual artist that
produces urban interventions, museum installations, performance videos, and art objects that address historical and sociopolitical undercurrents in photography, cinema, public space and architecture.
(2009)(on view in Bushwick) are bricolages of found materials, enamel, oil paint, readymade objects such as stools and rulers, and images which memorialize the artist's own
collaborative urban interventions.
One can only imagine that
urban interventions such as this can make a city that much more bike - friendlier, while adding some more harmonious notes to the urban cacophony too.
Over the years, Serra has become a beacon of inspiration for those creatives who examine the vast field
of urban interventions and installations.
Since then he's continued to broaden his practice, which now includes music, installation, and a kind of amalgam of community activism and real estate development that has been called large -
scale urban intervention.
Pop - up gardens, urban farms, guerrilla bike lanes, examples of crowdsourced city planning, and
other urban interventions will be the focus of the official U.S. Pavilion at the world's most prestigious architecture event.
Twenty years later, Obrist is releasing Do It: The Compendium (public library)-- a wide - ranging medley of artist instructions spanning performance art, sculpture,
urban intervention, philosophical reflection, and even recipes from, contributors like Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Ai Weiwei, Douglas Coupland, David Lynch, and Sol LeWitt.
His artistic practice encompasses sculpture, performance, installation and
urban interventions, and is linked to his strong social commitment.
Gates, whose practice includes performance, installation, and
urban interventions, created 12 Ballads for Huguenot House as part of his ongoing efforts to rejuvenate — both socially and architecturally — his South Chicago neighborhood LOCATION: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Many of Caycedo's projects are enacted and exist solely in public space as a form of
urban intervention.
One of the hippest and most internationally relevant art galleries in the city, it provides a platform for emerging, mid-career, established and master artists, ranging in historical scope from the origins of American Pop Art to the most current evolutions of digital media, conceptual installations and
urban interventions.
Theaster Gates» practice includes sculpture, installation, performance and
urban interventions that aim to bridge the gap between art and life.
Jesper Aabille (from Denmark) works in a variety of artistic strategies:
urban interventions, sculptures, drawings,...
In his performances, installations, and
urban interventions, Gates transforms spaces, institutions, traditions, and perceptions.
No museum could encompass (indeed, both shows barely referenced) the artist's great series of
urban interventions: Erosion, 1997, for example, which flash flooded the streets of Johannesburg with that all - too - scarce commodity, water, briefly stopping traffic in its tracks; or Green river, begun in 1998, the watery dye job that has brought a brilliantly ironic «greening» to beleaguered rivers from Los Angeles to Stockholm to Tokyo.
Her current artistic practice involves individual and collective projects in performance, sculpture,
urban intervention, graphic production and video.
Carola Bravo is a Miami based artist well known for her immersive video - installations, site - specific installations,
urban interventions, and intimate studio artworks that address space, changing territories and their geometry.
Whether the resulting work takes the form of a large - scale installation, software,
an urban intervention, or drawing, Chin makes the conceptual accessible.
In the same year, he did
an urban intervention in Bangkok; the artist painted an 80 meters - tall wall during 3 days in a suburb, and later produced graffiti in the Bed Supper Club.
The exhibition opens tomorrow Saturday 5th april and will be presenting new works, installations in addition to
urban interventions in several cities, one of which will be part of the project Art is Real.
Milena Bonilla Transitory Map,
urban intervention.
Certainly, Serra has become a beacon of inspiration for those artists who explore the vast field of
urban interventions and installations.
i Collective is a collaborative platform of artists, curators and scientists working in the intersection of art,
urban interventions and socially - engaged projects.
Gates, whose practice includes performance, installation, and
urban interventions, created 12 Ballads for Huguenot House as part of his ongoing efforts to rejuvenate — both socially and architecturally — his South Chicago neighborhood, a campaign that began in 2006 when he refurbished an abandoned building on South Dorchester Avenue as his studio and home.
We've recently seen some of
the urban interventions commissioned through a Performance Architecture contest, and a new one has come up a few days ago.