LA Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, USA
New York’s Printed Matter present the second annual LA Art Book Fair. This free event is open to everyone and features artists’ books, catalogues, monographs, periodicals and zines from over 250 international publishers, presses, bookshops and artists. As well as plenty to browse and read, there’ll be publication launches, talks and screenings, and live coverage from the fair courtesy of LA’s KCHUNG Radio.
31 Jan – 2 Feb, laartbookfair.net
Far and High, FLAX (France Los Angeles Exchange), Los Angeles, USA
The inaugural group exhibition at this new space dedicated to exhibitions, performances, film programmes and talks, brings together the work of London-based Turner Prize winning French artist Laure Prouvost with David Douard, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Alicja Kwade, Tamara Henderson, David Gilbert, Vincent Ganivet. Sculpture, installation, film, photography and print are all featured in what FLAX, a non-profit charity, describes as ‘a teaser’ for a residency programme that aims to provide a platform for French-related emerging artists, curators and critics.
31 January – 30 April, www.fahrenheit.flaxfoundation.org
Robert Overby: Works 1969–1987, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Switzerland
The first institutional survey exhibition in Europe of this American artist’s works, who died in 1993. Overby’s work is characterised by a constant experimentation with materials and processes and includes early pieces of an architectural nature – casts of doors, windows and facades in rubber, latex and concrete. Other works sit somewhere between painting, sculpture and installation and reveal a conceptual concern with the passing of time, and an idea of art as a way to investigate the human condition.
31 January – 27 April, www.centre.ch
Black Milk – Holocaust in Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
Thirteen international artists from Bolivia, Denmark, Israel, Poland, South Africa and the USA present works that focus on the Holocaust in very different ways. From a concentration camp in Lego, a gold brooch inscribed with ‘Jude’ and a big pile of bleeding logs, the works range from confrontational to poetic and raise the question of how the horrors of the Holocaust can or should be dealt with in art today. Exhibiting artists include Jonathan Horowitz, Miroslaw Balka and Yvette Brackman.
Until 27 April, www.samtidskunst.dk
Susan Philipsz: Part File Score, Berlin, Germany
The Berlin-based Glasgow artist, whose sound work is often specific to a place, has created a new piece for the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, in Berlin. This new sound installation relates both to the building’s former function as a railway station and to its structure, which consists of 12 archways. Referencing the idea of departures and arrivals, Philipsz connects the building to the life of German composer Hanns Eisler (1898–1962), who lived in Berlin but was deported in 1948 due to his communist political sympathies.
Philipsz has also produced 12 digital prints (pictured) to accompany the installation.
1 February – 4 May, www.smb.museum
