In the year of the Soccer World Cup in South Africa, the Daimler Art Collection aims to continue its long years of addressing and intensively promoting South Africa’s cultural development with an international contemporary art exhibition in Berlin. The presentation is arranged in dialogue form, juxtaposing current performative, conceptual and abstract tendencies in contemporary South African art with selected works from the Daimler Art Collection.

Do a Plastic Bag is a small and personal way to address the abundance of discarded bags. Do a Plastic Bag offers a way for people to take part in saving some plastic from ending up in a hole somewhere and slowly becoming part of the ecosphere.

Austrian Günter is a painter, performance artist, graphic artist and writer. He was the co-founder in 1964 of Wiener Aktionismus (Viennese Actionism) together with Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. His aggressively presented actionism intentionally disregarded conventions and taboos.

Am Horizont der Sinne / Am Horizont der Dinge
Exhibition by Günter Brus and Arnulf Rainer at Sabine Knust Galerie.

June 11th to 25th June 2010

White’s high-contrast black and white paintings which quietly exist as silent moments of everyday life bring together the still-life genre of 17th Dutch painting with the rigorous methodology of 1970s’ Conceptual Art, recalling, for instance, On Kawara’s systematic approach to documenting time. A must see.

Karel Funk's work depict the head of a subject wearing a Gore-Tex jacket. Preciously brought onto a canvas, these 11 acrylic paintings could be photographs, but are not. They are more reminding the viewer of the Renaissance portraiture with a 21st century perspective.

Paul De Vree, born in 1909 in Antwerpen, is an artist, author and curator who worked in the disciplines of literature, photography and visual arts with the use of graphics and edition, mixed media, object, performance, photo and sculpture. Excertps of his work from 1971 to 1973 can be seen at the MUHKA in Belgium.

www.muhka.be

The exhibition “Less and More. The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams.” will be running from May 22 to September 5, 2010, at the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt am Main.

In October 1987 Xavier Hufkens started his first gallery in an ancient warehouse at the realm of Brussels. During the first five years of its existence, the gallery focused on then emerging, international artists like Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Antony Gormley, Jessica Stockholder and some others. Today the gallery represents a number of established artists from Belgium and abroad like Jan Vercruysse, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Richard Artschwager.

Showing Jan Vercruysse from June to July 2010