Mauricio Limón: Museo Jumex

Mauricio Limón in Museo Jumex Mexico

The Museo Jumex presents Football & Art. A Shared Emotion, on view from 28 March to 26 July 2026, bringing together international artists who examine football as a global cultural and aesthetic phenomenon.

The exhibition explores the sport beyond its competitive dimension, positioning it as a system of images, rituals, and collective experiences that shape identities across regions and social contexts. Through a wide range of media—including installation, video, painting, and archival material—the show addresses themes such as mass emotion, spectacle, memory, and the politics embedded in the game.

Among the participating artists is Mauricio Limón de León, whose work investigates the body as a site of inscription and control. His contribution reflects on the football field as a choreographed space, where gestures, uniforms, and collective movement reveal underlying social and symbolic structures. In this context, his practice aligns with the exhibition’s broader inquiry into how individual identity is negotiated within systems of mass participation.

Football & Art. A Shared Emotion is on view at Museo Jumex, located at Blvd. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 303, Col. Granada, 11520 Mexico City, Mexico.

Rachel Libeskind: Hilliard Art Museum

Rachel Libeskind at Hilliard Art Museum:  From March 7 – July 3, 2026

“If There Be Nothing New, But That Which Is” Rachel Libeskind

explores how we process mundane, everyday moments in an age of visual overload. Her work focuses on the quiet, overlooked experiences—like household chores or self-grooming—that we often perform on autopilot without conscious attention.

Through 

large-scale collage and printmaking, Libeskind deconstructs recognizable moments and reconstructs them into new visual frameworks, creating “new recollections” that bring visibility to these overlooked rhythms of daily life.

Key influences include:

  • Jacques Lacan’s theories on visual culture and unnoticed stretches of time
  • 20th-century artists such as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Barbara Kruger, and the Guerrilla Girls

The exhibition examines the limits of legibility and visibility within mundane moments, appropriating both contemporary and historical imagery to disrupt familiar narratives.

University of Louisiana

Hilliard Art Museum

710 East St. Mary Boulevard

Lafayette, LA 70503

Lauriston Avery: Show&Tells

Lauriston Avery is one of ten artists in Relics, curated by Show&Tell’s

Show&Tell’s first curated exhibition of speakers from our lecture series, on view at Platform Project Space.
Opens January 30 with an opening reception on Thursday February 5. Until Feb. 28th.
Relics is curated by Show&Tell’s artists Alyssa Fanning, Emma Fanning, Michael Lee and Patrick Neal.
Platform Project Space 20 Jay Street #319 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Open Fridays and Saturdays 12-6 pm.

Künstlerhaus Bethanien: Rachel Libeskind.

On October 23, Rachel Libeskind’s exhibition IT’S JUST A MATTER OF ATTITUDE, the fourth chapter of the series Becoming B, opens at Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

The exhibition unfolds in the tension between origin and reinvention—themes that also accompany the house’s institutional transformation. Libeskind examines how identity, history, and gender are constructed through visual, linguistic, and cultural codes. In her new works, she combines photographs from 1980s American hairdressing catalogs with propaganda slogans from the early 20th century, thus revealing the subtle mechanisms of social norming. Supplemented by large-scale collages, text, and sound works, the artist creates a multifaceted web of image, sound, and meaning that brings questions of representation, visibility, and transformation to the forefront.

Künstlerhaus Bethanien 

Kottbusser Straße 10 
D –
10999 Berlin

Jason Duval Screening at Black Rock Arts, Buffalo

Jason Duval will present his film A Few Minutes with the Chinatown Basketball Club as part of the program Public Joy! And Other Feelings! at Black Rock Arts in Buffalo.

The hour-long screening brings together a selection of experimental films that approach the idea of the urban portrait from multiple perspectives. The program is organized in the context of the exhibition I Love My City, featuring photographs by Rachele Schneekloth and curated by Dorota Kołodziejczyk and the Black Rock Arts team.

Originally shown in a different version at Governors Island in New York, the Buffalo iteration expands the program with two rarely screened works by Andrew Ferullo, adding a local dimension to the selection. All films are drawn from the archive of The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, situating the program within a broader history of experimental cinema.

Date: Dec. 7th 2025

Location: Black Rock Arts, Buffalo

Admission: Free screening

Philara Collection: Paul Hance

Philara Collection presents “Melting Sands” with works with Paul Hance.

18 October 2025 – 25 January 2026

To mark the 150th anniversary of the former Lennarz Glassworks—whose converted factory has housed the Philara Collection since 2016—the exhibition Melting Sands explores glass as one of the most paradoxical and transformative materials in contemporary art. Bringing together international artists such as Gabriele Beveridge, Narges Mohammadi, Jeremy Shaw, Slavs and Tatars and Paul Hance, the show reflects on how structure and chaos, light and opacity, fragility and permanence coexist within this medium.

Glass, long seen as a metaphor for transparency and utopia, is revisited here as a substance of instability and metamorphosis—an amorphous solid in constant potential for change. The works on view question what can be learned from glass today: its reflective, connective, and collective properties, and its role in a world that blurs boundaries between material and immaterial.

Within this dialogue, Paul Hance presents works that investigate the fluid, cyclical nature of perception and life. His Rasaseries employs Bohemian glass and silver leaf to create reflective surfaces that capture transient, fragmented images—moments of self-perception in motion. In Investigating the Mystery of the Moon, a Parisian cast-iron tree grate frames a pink-gold disc of hand-blown glass, linking urban memory, material alchemy, and the enduring mystery of transformation .

Driftless by Felipe Castelblanco in Oldenburg

Driftless by Felipe Castelblanco Pulverturm, Oldenburg

Sept 6– Dec. 14 , 2025

We are pleased to announce that Felipe Castelblanco’s video installation Driftless is currently on view at Haus der Medienkunst, Oldenburg, presented in the atmospheric setting of the Pulverturm.

On view from Sept 6 to December 14, 2025, Driftless is a three-channel video work that explores the ocean as a radical and unbounded public space. Developed over seven years of performative journeys across bodies of water in Colombia, North America, Europe, and beyond, the work reflects on movement, migration, and the porous nature of political and physical boundaries.

Emerging from Castelblanco’s experience on Colombia’s Pacific coast—where he once purchased a piece of land that was later claimed by the ocean—Driftless transforms personal history into poetic reflection. The piece engages with water as space, nationhood as confinement, and seafaring as both resistance and aesthetic practice.

Set within the circular architecture of the Pulverturm, the immersive installation invites viewers to enter a meditative drift—between continents, concepts, and currents.

More information:

👉 hausmedienkunst.de/ausstellungen/aktuell/driftless-im-pulverturm

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Asef/Burckhardt Review at TZK

Asef/Burckhardt exhibition at MOS, reviewed at TZK

Sabeth Buchmann’s insightful review “Matter and Message”, published by Texte zur Kunst, examines how artists Mario Asef and Kirstin Burckhardt critically and poetically revisit the legacy of Anna and Lawrence Halprin. Through archival research, performance, and sculptural installations, both artists reimagine the Halprins’ utopian ideals of collective creativity, ecology, and diversity—while exposing their transformation under neoliberalism.

📖 Read the full text on Texte zur Kunst: https://www.textezurkunst.de/en/articles/buchmann-matter-message/

Tree of Life

Tree Of Life

„Tree of Life“ ist ein Aquarell der kanadischen Künstlerin Nika Fontaine aus dem Jahr 2017. Nikas Werk ist eine Erkundung des Spirituellen, das in der Kunst ausgedrückt werden kann. Dazu greift sie auf verschiedene Denktraditionen zurück, die sich mit der spirituellen Welt beschäftigen, darunter Religionen, vor allem die jüdisch-christliche, die ihr schon als Kind von ihrem Onkel, einem Franziskanermönch, nähergebracht wurde.

Der Baum des Lebens ist ein universelles Symbol, das in vielen Kulturen und Traditionen weltweit vorkommt.

  • Kabbala (jüdische Mystik): Symbolisiert die göttliche Schöpfung, spirituelle Entwicklung und die Verbindung zwischen Gott und Welt durch die zehn Sephirot.
  • Nordische Mythologie (Yggdrasil): Verbindet die neun Welten, steht für kosmische Ordnung, Leben, Tod und Erneuerung.
  • Keltische Traditionen: Repräsentiert Harmonie, Stärke und die Verbindung von Himmel, Erde und Unterwelt.
  • Christentum: Symbol für Unsterblichkeit (Eden) und Erlösung (Offenbarung), oft mit dem Kreuz verbunden.
  • Mesopotamische Kulturen: Steht für Fruchtbarkeit, göttliche Ordnung und Leben, oft mit Gottheiten wie Inanna verknüpft.
  • Indische/Buddhistische Traditionen: Symbolisiert Erleuchtung (Bodhi-Baum) oder die vergängliche Welt (Ashvattha).
  • Afrikanische Kulturen: Verkörpert Leben, Schutz und Ahnenverbindung, z. B. durch den Baobab.
  • Schamanische/Indigene Traditionen: Dient als Axis Mundi, verbindet Unterwelt, Erde und Himmel, z. B. der Ceiba-Baum bei den Maya.
Taddeo Gandi. 1340. Fresko des Lebensbaums, inspiriert von Bonaventura‘s Der Baum des Lebens (Lignum vitae), im Refektorium des Klosters Santa Croce in Florenz.

Zusammenfassend kann man sagen, dass der Baum des Lebens normalerweise die Verbindung zwischen Himmel, Erde und Unterwelt sowie den Kreislauf von Leben darstellt. In vielen Kulturen steht er für Harmonie, Kraft und Einheit der Schöpfung und des Kosmos.

Die Aquarell spielt eine wichtige Rolle in Nikas Kunst. Sie malt schnell, weil sie einen Kleber benutzt, um den Glitzer auf der Leinwand zu fixieren. Um sich vor dem Malen richtig zu konzentrieren, meditiert sie und skizziert die Motive, die sie malen will.

Aquarelle sind für die Entwicklung ihrer Malerei unverzichtbar, deshalb schätzt sie sie auch so sehr.

Nika Fontaine

Paul Hance & Tadan

Paul Hance in duo show at Wolf Jordan convened By Tadan

With ‚Ria’, Wolff Jordan presents two artistic perspectives that examine — and interactively expand — states within the space-time continuum. Tadan brought together almost all of the participants at some point and convened the exhibition. Only the artists, Tallal Shammout and Paul Hance, had never met before. The show itself — featuring around 15 individual works — becomes a field of research in its own right. Art as a successful experiment: the exhibited works — framed collages and light sculptures by Paul Hance, and images by Tallal Shammout — form an almost uncanny symbiosis. Yet the artistic practice of the two could not be more divergent.

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