April 2023's Global Exhibition Highlights: Ai Weiwei, Gwangju Biennale, Simone Leigh, and Isaac Julien Premieres
On April 7, Ai Weiwei's exhibition 'Making Sense' will launch at the Design Museum in London, highlighting five unique installations, including 'Untitled (Lego Incident)' from 2014. The 14th Gwangju Biennale, titled 'soft and weak like water', will take place from April 7 until July 9, featuring 79 artists and more than 40 new commissions. From April 6, ICA Boston will showcase Simone Leigh's works from the Venice Biennale as part of a multi-year tour. Isaac Julien's retrospective at Tate Britain will open on April 26, covering 40 years of his career. Additionally, 'Indigo Waves and Other Stories' will be unveiled at Berlin's Gropius Bau on April 6, while Evandro Teixeira's 'Chile 1973' will be available in São Paulo until July 31. Kao Chung-Li's exhibition in Taipei will be on display until June 25, and Pacita Abad's retrospective will commence in Minneapolis on April 15. Lastly, Mori Art Museum's 'WORLD CLASSROOM' is set to open on April 19, and Runo Lagomarsino's exhibition will run through April 15 in Florence.
Key facts
- Ai Weiwei's 'Making Sense' at Design Museum London features five major site-specific works, including 'Untitled (Lego Incident)' (2014).
- The 14th Gwangju Biennale 'soft and weak like water' includes over 40 new commissions by 79 artists across five venues.
- Simone Leigh's US debut of her Venice Biennale works at ICA Boston begins a tour to Hirshhorn Museum, LACMA, and California African American Museum.
- Isaac Julien's first UK survey at Tate Britain premieres his film 'Once Again… (Statues Never Die)' (2022) in Europe.
- 'Indigo Waves and Other Stories' at Gropius Berlin adapts a previous Zeitz MOCAA exhibition to explore Indian Ocean regions.
- Evandro Teixeira's 'Chile 1973' at IMS Paulista includes photographs of Pablo Neruda's widow and political detentions during Pinochet's coup.
- Kao Chung-Li's solo exhibition at Taipei Fine Arts surveys four decades of work, from mixed-media paintings to kinetic installations.
- Pacita Abad's first retrospective at Walker Art Center showcases her trapunto quilted canvases and global artistic techniques.
Entities
Artists
- Ai Weiwei
- Simone Leigh
- Isaac Julien
- Evandro Teixeira
- Kao Chung-Li
- Pacita Abad
- Runo Lagomarsino
- Bruce Lee
- Pierre Berton
- Lao Tzu
- Paul Gilroy
- Sabrina Mahfouz
- Oriol Fontdevila
- Natasha Ginwala
- Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
- Michelangelo Corsaro
- Malala Andrialavidrazana
- Cinga Samson
- Ayesha Hameed
- Sohrab Hura
- Colin Roach
- William Douglass
- Albert C. Barnes
- Alain Locke
- Sonia Boyce
- Aoyama Satoru
- Shilpa Gupta
- Jakarta Wasted Artists
- Lee Ufan
- Tsai Charwei
- Joseph Kosuth
- Miyagi Futoshi
- Yasumasa Morimura
- Dinh Q. Lê
- Gu Minja
- Tatsuo Miyajima
- Aki Sasamoto
- Aiko Miyanaga
- Peter Fischli
- David Weiss
- Manon de Boer
- Aziz Hazara
- Klara Lidén
- Christian Jankowski
- Karl Marx
- Chris Marker
- Ian Sanjay Patel
- Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
- Bruce Nauman
- Paulo Neruda
- Matilde Urrutia
- General Pinochet
Institutions
- Design Museum
- Gwangju Biennale
- Gropius Bau
- Tate Britain
- ICA Boston
- Hirshhorn Museum
- LACMA
- California African American Museum
- IMS Paulista
- Mori Art Museum
- Taipei Fine Arts
- Walker Art Center
- Base / Progetti per l’arte
- Sankofa Film and Video Collective
- Zeitz MOCAA
- Hauser & Wirth Menorca
- Jornal do Brasil
- Estádio Nacional
Locations
- London
- United Kingdom
- Gwangju
- South Korea
- Berlin
- Germany
- Boston
- United States
- Washington DC
- Minneapolis
- São Paulo
- Brazil
- Tokyo
- Japan
- Taipei
- Taiwan
- Florence
- Italy
- Venice
- Chile
- Santiago
- Bangladesh
- Kenya
- Dominican Republic
- Indonesia
- Korea
- Madagascar
- Indian Ocean
- Mediterranean
- Menorca
- Spain
- Harlem
- Arsenale
- US pavilion
- Beijing
- China
- Song dynasty
- Stone Age
- Han Dynasty
- UK
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- Philippines
- Sweden
- UK Government