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Artist: Sonja Gangl Venue: Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz Exhibition Title:  I borrowed optimism from the past Date: February 1 – June 14, 2020 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz Press Release: The artistic work of Sonja Gangl bears witness to an intensive investigation of our mediatized and politicized everyday reality. The artist makes our world her motif and, along the way, never fails to notice its many facets. The Austrian artist is known especially for her outstanding naturalist drawings and long-term probing of this medium. With her solo exhibition “I borrowed optimism from the past” at the Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien in Graz, Gangl is now opening a new chapter in her artistic oeuvre and devoting herself to abstraction with a comprehensive new production. Situated at the center of the exhibition “I

Artists: Ariel Schlesinger, Douglas Gordon, Latifa Echakhch, Mircea Cantor, Miroslaw Balka, Sarah Ortmeyer Venue: Dvir, Tel Aviv/Brussels (online) Exhibition Title:  ‘Corona’, Paul Celan, 1948 Date: March 20 – March 27, 2020 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Dvir, Tel Aviv/Brussels Press Release: « Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends. From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk: then time returns to the shell.   In the mirror it’s Sunday, in dream there is room for sleeping, our mouths speak the truth.   My eye moves down to the sex of my loved one: we look at each other, we exchange dark words, we love each other like poppy and recollection, we sleep like wine in the conches, like the sea in the moon’s blood ray.   We stand by the window embracing, and people look up from the street: it is time they knew! It is time the

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Artist: Laura Langer Venue: Portikus, Frankfurt am Main Exhibition Title: Liberty Date: February 15 – April 12, 2020 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of the artist and  Weiss Falk, Basel. Photos by Diana Pfammatter. Press Release: Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commence from that point on. ―Georges Bataille, Guilty   Portikus is pleased to announce Liberty , Laura Langer’s first institutional solo exhibition. The exhibition presents a new series of seven paintings , which are site-specific to Portikus. Liberty talks about limitations, their impact and the desire beyond. A conversation between Laura Langer, Christina Lehnert and Person Three CL (Christina Lehnert): This exhibition consists of two separate