Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Comprehensive survey of this Brooklyn-based, Kenyan artist, which brings together more than 50 works from the mid-1990s to the present. Large-scale collages feature alongside video works, sketchbook drawings, a site-specific wall piece, and installations. Mutu’s works combine found materials and magazine cutouts with sculpture and painted imagery, in order to comment on global issues of gender, race, war, colonialism and much more.
Until 9 March, 2014, www.brooklynmuseum.org
Shared Singularities, Le 116, Montreuil, France
Montreuil, a French city near Paris, opens its first ever contemporary art centre in a former manor house with a contemporary extension. Le 116 ‘is not interested in reflecting a singular, directing vision, but rather in uniting actors from different horizons’ – which means it won’t be taking a singular, curator-led approach but will instead engage with multiple voices and ideas. Its opening exhibition captures this approach by presenting a group show which, it says, draws upon ‘a catalogue of collective desire’.
16 October–11 January 2014, www.le116.net
Towada Oirase Art Festival 2013: SURVIVE, Towada, Japan
In celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Towada Art Center, Towada city is staging the first Towada Oirase Art Festival in the city area (mainly around the Towada Art Center itself), Oirase, and Lake Towada. Held under the theme of “time,” this art festival focuses on three main pillars: exhibitions, the publication of the festival’s anthology, and seminars. Marcus Coates features among a cast of mainly Japanese artists in small festival that hopes to ‘propose the new possibility of our time and art to Japan and the rest of the world’.
Until 24 November, artstowadaoirase.jp/en
Brasiliana. Installations from 1960 to the Present, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
To mark the occasion of Brazil being guest of honour at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, this exhibition presents eight large-scale installation works. The exhibition features work by Brazilian artists Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida, Lygia Clark, Tunga, and Cildo Meireles as well as younger artists such as Ernesto Neto, Maria Nepomuceno, Henrique Oliviera, and Dias & Riedweg.
Until 5 January 2014, www.schirn.de
