Exhibitions: AA’s selection
As 2024 is coming to an end, AA’s editorial team selected some exhibitions that will be ending soon. Berlin, London, Paris… A cultural itinerary for architecture, contemporary art and drawing enthusiasts.
Emerging Ecologies, Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism
New York City, Museum of Modern Art, until 20 January 2025
Since early autumn, the MoMa has been presenting an exhibition exploring the relationship between architecture and the environmental movement in the United States since the 1960s. The exhibition is punctuated by a wide range of works – from archival drawings to videos and models – featuring the leaders of this approach, including Richard Buckminster Fuller, Beverly Willis and Emilio Ambasz. It’s an exhibition that takes a retrospective look at an increasingly contemporary issue.
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Mountain
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, until 23 February 2025
For several months now, the Fondation d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain Maeght has been presenting the exhibition Mountain, featuring contemporary Korean artist Minjung Kim. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey of discovery through her poetic, minimalist works: repeated motifs in ink on traditional Korean hanji paper, leading them to meditate on universal themes such as time, nature and spirituality.
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Courtesy of the artist © Studio Minjung Kim
Sense of direction
Paris, galerie Andréhn-Schiptjenko, until 18 January 2025
Under the curatorial gaze of Xavier Veilhan, a major figure on the French contemporary art scene, the Andréhn-Schiptjenko gallery has been presenting Le Sens de l’Orientation since November, an exhibition exploring the highly metaphysical question of the relationship between space and time through the work of 8 women artists including Isabelle Cornaro, Valérie Mréjen and Ann Veronica Janssens (to name but a few). The artist chosen to represent France at the Venice Biennale in 2017 presents his approach as follows:
If the title sounds like a pleonasm that doubles the idea of direction, it indicates both a position (we know where we are) and a potential path (we know where we’re going). Between these two points, which can in turn be physical or mental, the exhibition is presented as a space-time in which the pieces function as landmarks whose relationship to time equals their relationship to space.
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© Grégory Copitet, Anne-Sarah Bénichou Galerie and Andréhn-Schiptjenko
Stories on Emancipatory housing
Berlin, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ, until 16 February 2025
Based on a study of Dessauer Strasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the Berlin institution’s exhibition highlights the extensive involvement of women architects in the planning and construction processes that took place in Berlin in the 1980s. Under the impetus of groups such as the Feminist Organization of Women Planners and Architects, a truly progressive movement of women in architecture and urban policy was formed, in which Zaha Hadid, Myra Warhaftig and Christine Jachmann took part to put forward their emancipatory approach to housing.
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Drawing up the Ile-de-France territories
Paris, Maison de l’architecture Ile-de-France, until 15 March
This winter, the Maison de l’architecture explores the various ways in which the density and heterogeneity of the Ile-de-France region can be expressed through drawing. It’s a great opportunity to visit the Ile-de-France region through an original presentation of 20 places drawn by architects, landscape architects and artists.
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New Homes in New Ways, Collaboration and Innovation through Modern Methods of Construction
London, The Building Centre, until 21 February
Since last October, the Building Centre in London, in collaboration with the Bristol-based think-and-do tank Housing Festival, has been hosting an exhibition on modern construction methods (MMCs) and how they could be a sustainable response to the UK’s housing crisis.
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