Gender and art

Hito Steyerl is among the most adroit observers of our thoroughly globalized, digitized condition. Her practice describes with uncommon precision the fluidity and mutability of images—how they are produced, interpreted, translated, packaged, transported, and consumed by a multitude of users.

in a political critique with a cutting comical tone, artist saint hoax has created a series of short animated gifs, which transform international political leaders into elaborately dressed-up drag queens.

In her most recent collection of paintings, Dokkebis and Other Tales, Leeah Joo conjures myths by way of textiles. Joo, who was born in Seoul, South Korea, immigrated to the U.S. at age 10. She received her MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art, and her work has been featured nationally. Next year, Joo’s work will be featured in February at Artspace in New London, CT, and in a solo show in the fall atAndrew Bae Gallery.

Renowned Indian artist Rekha Rodwittiya’s latest exhibition at the Sakshi Gallery in Mumbai, aptly reflects her long-time muse – feminist articulation – in a compendium titled ‘Matters of the Heart’.

Sarah Sze spent the months leading up to the Venice Biennale collecting what some might consider trash. Each day the artist, who is representing the United States at the biennale, would take the objects she found around Venice (napkins, paint cans, espresso cups, water bottles) and carefully place them among one of the five installations she created for the annual art festival. Titled Triple Point, the exhibition is a series of interconnected installations that spill across the rooms of the U.S. Pavilion.

Kinshasa finally welcomes its first contemporary art biennale.
Under the theme “avancer“ (forward), the first edition of the biennial “Yango” will raise the question of the expressive features offered by the Congo, a true source of inspiration and a well of ideas and concepts for creators worldwide.
The exhibition, which is curated by Sithabile Mlotshwa, will presents about 20 renowed artists from all over the world.

http://yangobiennale.org

New Orleans-based contemporary performance artist Heather Hansen's work is the perfect union of dance and drawing. Her whole body moves in light and fluid dance-like motions and, just with little pieces of charcoal, she draws stunning one-of-a-kind symmetrical patterns and abstract forms on large sheets of paper.

Hansen’s work can be seen in a group exhibition called The Value Of Line at The Ochi Gallery in Katchum, Idaho, USA, till 31st March, 2014.

Punk band Pussy Riot has made it to a shortlist of 20 Asian artists in an inaugural competition launched by the Saatchi Gallery and art foundation Parallel Contemporary Art. Of the 20 artists shortlisted for the Prudential Eye Awards for Contemporary Asian Art, three are Russian. 

Wangechi Mutu’s staggering collages transform the female body, making extensions that are sometimes human, animal, machine, and monster. Cut from magazines, found materials, and painted imagery, Mutu’s collaged creatures absorb the weight of a diverse sampling of both empowering and derogatory sources.

Mutu also collaborated with musician Santigold in her first-ever animated video, The End of Eating Everything, an Afro-futuristic film collage.

“A Fantastic Journey” will be at The Brooklyn Museum through March 9, 2014.

"Tate Modern will present the world’s first major museum exhibition of Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair (b. 1916). Comprising over 120 works, many of which have never been seen before and are being exhibited for the first time, this exhibition will bring together paintings, sculptures and other objects made by the artist over six decades, reflecting her interests in science, mathematics and Islamic art and poetry."

Saloua Raouda Choucair Tate Modern: Exhibition, 17 April – 20 October 2013

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/saloua-raouda-choucair ;