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The club likes… Kaja Clara Joo

The club likes… Kaja Clara Joo

Clubexpress likes... Kaja Clara JooSelected works from 2017–2020"Social (mass-)phenomena and automated images and codes that are imprinted in us are components of my work practice. It is not the offset everyday beautiful, but threateningly invasive moments that...

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Mnemosyne Atlas – Warburg

Mnemosyne Atlas – Warburg

Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a german art historian and cultural theorist, founder of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek in Hamburg which was later moved to the Warburg Institute in London.At the heart of his research was the legacy of...

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Iannis Xenakis — Polytopes

Iannis Xenakis — Polytopes

Iannis Xenakis (1922-2011), was a Greek/French composer, architect and engineer and a pioneer in the use of mathematical models in music and applied stochastic processes. Xenakis has been an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. He...

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Series: Female Artists

Series: Female Artists

Sonia Boyce (born 1962)In the female artists series this week we take a look at two earlier pieces by Sonia Boyce, a British Afro-Caribbean artist.She will be representing the UK at the Venice Biennale in 2022 and the first black woman to do so.Sonia Dawn Boyce’s work...

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Every week a female portrait

Every week a female portrait

Every week a female portraitWe continue with our series, part five: Self Portrait, 1939 by Pan Yuliang.Pan Yuliang 潘玉良 (born on June 14, 1895) was a Chinese painter, renowned as the first woman in China to paint in the Western style. Born in Yangzhou, worked in...

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Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader

"Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (19 April 1942 – disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual and performance artist, and photographer. His work was in many instances presented as photographs and film of his performances. He made performative installations,...

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Every week a female portrait

Every week a female portrait

Every week a female portraitThe fourth of our series: Malay Girl, 1938 by Irma Stein.Irma Stern (born on October 2, 1894) was a major South African artist and has achieved national and international recognition in her lifetime with her paintings and...

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Ways of Seeing – John Berger

Ways of Seeing – John Berger

Visual representations are never neutral "The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images.""Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil painting tradition...

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group "Die Brücke" ("The Bridge"), a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. 01 - Bathers...

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Every week a female portrait

Every week a female portrait

Every week a female PortraitThe second of our series: ‘Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features’ (1981) by Adrian Piper."Adrian Piper (born 1948) is an American conceptual artist and philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one...

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Oldest surviving photograph

Oldest surviving photograph

View from the Window at Le Gras by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765 – 1833) is the oldest surviving photograph (circa 1826). The "window view is considered the oldest photograph that is known to have been formed in the camera in the world." (widewalls.ch) The exposure...

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