10 exhibitions for 2018

London, Milan, New York and beyond. The best exhibitions of art, design, graphics, fashion and photography in this selection by Domus.

London Design Museum

What role has graphics played in politics over the last 10 years? The London Design Museum examines actions and reactions translated into highly powerful images. Moments that have shaped the world beginning from 2008, the year of the global economic crisis. They clearly demonstrate how graphic design has played an influential role. From Brexit to the Arab Spring, it is astounding to see how certain figures have already become part of our collective consciousness.

Title:
Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-2018
Opening dates:
28 March – 12 August 2018
Museum:
London Design Museum
Address:
224-238 Kensington High Street, London

Among the 4 excellent projects produced by Pirelli HangarBicocca for 2018, the one-person show dedicated to Leonor Antunes is not to be missed. Artisan techniques and traditional materials (rope, wood, brass, leather, rubber and cork), for powerful works with an evident link to architecture. In particular, for the new works present and for the site-specific installation, the Portuguese artist makes reference to Franca Helg, Bruno Munari, Franco Albini and Milanese Modernism traditions.

Title:
Leonor Antunes
Curator:
Roberta Tenconi
Opening dates:
14 September – January 2018
Museum:
Pirelli HangarBicocca
Address:
via Chiese 2, Milan

MoMA is dedicating an important retrospective to the Congolese sculptor Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948 - 2015), who used unusual materials such as paper or commercial packaging to create that which he described as “extreme maquettes”. For the first time ever, visitors will be able to see the first works, which concentrated on sculptures of individual architectural works, as well as the more recent pieces which represent sprawling metropoles on a large scale, and the final futurist and visionary urban landscapes. The exhibition design will be produced in collaboration with the artist Carsten Höller

Title:
Bodys Isek Kingelez
Curator:
Sarah Suzuki
Opening dates:
26 May – 21 October 2018
Museum:
MoMA
Address:
11 West 53 Street, New York

Obsession: 50 nudes by Gustave Klimt (1862 - 1918), Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918), and Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973). The masterpieces, all part of the Scofield Thayer Collection (belonging to the Met) are being shown together for the first time. They express the atmosphere of a very particular era, and the passions of Thayer (1889 - 1982). A patient of Sigmund Freud in Vienna, in the space of only two years he had collected over 600 works by artists who were still unknown at the time in his country of Austria.

 Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele, Standing Nude with Orange Drapery, 1914. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Title:
Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection
Opening dates:
3 July – 7 October 2018
Museum:
The Met Breuer
Address:
945 Madison Avenue, New York

Contemporary culture examined through clubs and discotheques, free and stimulating spaces where graphics, interior architecture, design, fashion, art and much more is experimented. From the 1960s to today, with an excellent selection of period documentation (films, photographs, installations, posters), this exhibition brings together the Italian discotheques made by the Radicals, the legendary Studio 54 in New York, the studies by OMA for the Ministry of Sound in London, and the design for the New York Palladium by Arata Isozaki.

Title:
Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – today
Opening dates:
17 March – 9 September 2018
Museum:
Vitra Design Museum
Address:
Charles-Eames-Strasse 2, Weil am Rhein

The first important one-person show dedicated to Danh Vo in the United States. The Danish artist who was born in Vietnam has always focused on themes such as colonialism, capitalism, memory, religion and a sense of belonging. Mixing his personal history with universal events with a sensitivity and a strength which has made him, in his forties, one of the most interesting artists of the moment. The exhibition shows works from the last 15 years, and a large number of works produced specially for the occasion.

Titolo:
Danh Vo: Take My Breath Away
Curatore:
Katherine Brinson,
Date di apertura:
9 febbraio – 9 maggio 2018
Museo:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Indirizzo:
1071 5th Ave, New York

Around one hundred works examine the power and intensity of human existence portrayed on canvas. Bodies which are abandoned, suffering, bored or simply immersed in daily activities Surrounding the predominant figures of Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) and Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), a selection of some of the most famous British artists from the last century. A wide-ranging reflection on the famous words spoken by Freud: “I want the paint to work as flesh does”.

Title:
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life
Opening dates:
28 February – 27 August 2018
Museum:
Tate Britain
Address:
Millbank, London

A new retrospective dedicated to Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) which not only brings together works from the Dolores Olmedo Museum in the City of Mexico, and from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, (the two most important collections dedicated to the Mexican artist), but also benefits from the collaboration of the Casa Azul archive and many other institutions. The curator Diego Sileo speaks of a brand-new approach which will allow the exhibition to go “beyond the legend”. At the same time, the Mudec is preparing a series of very interesting conferences and events which examine the artist in further detail, and the Mexican Cultural Festival will be directly involved.

Title:
Frida Kahlo. Oltre il mito
Curator:
Diego Sileo
Opening dates:
1 February – 3 June 2018
Museum:
MUDEC
Address:
via Tortona 56, Milano

150 works from all around the world, including paintings, photographs, collages, assemblages, experimental films, objects and works on paper in an attempt to define the figure of Man Ray, (1890 - 1976), an enigmatic artist who made his mark at the time and who continues to influence the modern world. This exhibition seeks to examine “the universal Man Ray”, too often reduced to a few famous and stereotypical elements, which do not take into consideration the manifold and complex production of the artist.

Title:
Man Ray
Curator:
Lisa Ortner-Kreil
Opening dates:
14 February – 24 June 2018
Museum:
Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien
Address:
Freyung 8, Vienna

In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of the moon landing made by Apollo 11 in 1969, an important exhibition examines the various human ambitions dedicated to Earth’s satellite, considered an object of desire, an artistic symbol, and the object of scientific research. Through literature, film, architecture, design and art, as well as natural history and historical artefacts, the Louisiana presents the moon in all its aspects, which range from David Bowie to Disney cartoons.

The Moon
“The Moon” at Louisiana Museum. Fritz Lang
Title:
The Moon
Opening dates:
13 September 2018 – 20 January 2019
Museum:
Luisiana Museum of Modern Art
Address:
Gl. Strandvej 13, Humlebæk

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