Political Art Archives

Richard Bell’s Embassy comes to Tate Modern

19 May 2023 • Mark Westall

Tate Modern to host Richard Bell’s travelling artwork Embassy. This installation, held jointly in the collections of Tate and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Unit London launches Platform, a digital space that engages with urgent socio-political issues

25 October 2020 • Irene Machetti

Unit London just launched Platform, an online exhibitions programme highlighting urgent socio-political issues. Participating artists create new works engaging with a political, cultural or social issue that they feel close to. In alignment with the core social principle of the programme, 10% of sales proceeds from each exhibition will benefit a charity nominated by the artist and/or curator.

ART NEWS

Joan Cornelà hopeless dystopias at PUBLIC gallery

1 April 2019 • Irene Machetti

I’M GOOD THANKS is a solo exhibition by the renowned Catalan artist Joan Cornel which invites us to peer into his dystopic vision of contemporary life.

HATUFIM: Alain Baczynsky’s empathic identities at ALMA ZEVI

29 March 2019 • Irene Machetti

ALMA ZEVI gallery in Venice presents Alain Baczynsky new exhibition HATUFIM a project Baczynsky has been working on for six years.

Interview with Our Open Call Instagram Finalist neo10y | StrangeLove

28 March 2017 • Ben Austin

We interview controversial artist neo10y on his concept film The Kid That Killed Trump | StrangeLove Festival 2017

INTERVIEWS

Politics & Nature: unnatural and natural states of the world at 56th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

13 May 2015 • Lee Sharrock

Arriving in Venice for the vernissage days whilst elections were in full swing, I was surprised to be confronted by a politically charged Biennale. Colonialism, Capitalism, Socialism, contemporary slavery and migration were some of the themes running through the 56th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opened not long after a period of several weeks during which more than 1,800 migrants – many of them African – drowned whilst attempting to flee across the Mediterranean to Europe..