The 7 Best Exhibitions in the EU
From Nathalie Du Pasquier in Rome to Susan Philipsz in Berlin, these are the best shows in the Schengen
With most European countries still in lockdown, the view from our own windows can be the closest we get to interacting with the outside world these days. Yet, while many museums and galleries remain closed, a wealth of digital programming – complemented by some creative installation solutions – mean we can still continue to enjoy that window onto another world, which art has always provided. Here is a round-up of some of Europe’s best shows.
‘CC: World’
Featured in Wu Tsang’s Renewal of the Collective
Two new films by the artist and her cohorts, on view at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, speak to joint struggles and why collaboration is key
In the second volume of his
Prison Notebooks (1926), Italian communist Antonio Gramsci suggests that critical consciousness stems from the understanding that one’s identity is shaped by historical processes ‘which [have] deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.’ The notion of an infinitely mutable mosaic of identities that we carry with ourselves (class, gender and race) is at the heart of ‘Visionary Company’, the exhibition by filmmaker and performance artist Wu Tsang and her multidisciplinary collective Moved by Motion, currently at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris.