Simon Starling: Loft Lift (stacked), Stockholm, Sweden
Initially created for the H+ redevelopment project, a new urban residential area in the harbour of Helsingborg, Sweden, Turner Prize-winning artist Simon Starling has stacked three found dovecotes – small, fragile houses made of recycled material – on top of each other, in front of the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design. Looking at ideas around urban displacement and redevelopment, the work is part of a countrywide initiative which sees artists, designers, antiquarians and architects working with urban planners and engineers to find new approaches to public spaces and buildings.
Until 1 January 2014, www.statenskonstrad.se
Tacita Dean: The Studio of Giorgio Morandi, Bologna, Italy
This fascinating project at the Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna places two Tacita Dean films commissioned by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in 2009, in the spaces that house the Bologna museum’s permanent collection. Shot in what used to be Giorgio Morandi’s studio, Still Life and Day for Night recount the processes involved in Morandi’s paintings through his prepatory drawings and the arrangement of objects – boxes, pots, containers of different shapes, artificial flowers, tins, pans, bottles – in his studio.
Until 9 February 2014, www.mambo-bologna.org
Gego: Line as Object, Hamburg, Germany
Born in Hamburg in 1912, Gertrud Goldschmidt, known as Gego, immigrated to Caracas, Venezuala in 1939 after finishing her architectural studies in Stuttgart. This exhibition, a collaboration with the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds – where it will be on show from 24 July 2014 – charts Gego’s five-decade exploration of how a line can operate as an object, creating planes, volumes and expansive nets to reflect on perception.
Until 2 March 2014, www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
Secret Codes (Codigos Secretos), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Marking the 40th anniversary of Galeria Luisa Strina, Secret Codes brings together works from the 1960s to the present day which, either in the work itself or in a broader way, have been influenced by forms of communication including signs, code or languages. The exhibition features the work of more than 30 artists, including Cildo Meireles, Ugo Rondinone, On Kawara and Cerith Wyn Evans.
17 December – 22 February 2014, www.galerialuisastrina.com.br
