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Acute Art launches project with BMW Art Journey awardee Lu Yang
Acute Art are delighted to announce a brand new collaboration with Lu Yang and BMW. From 2-6 December 2020, visitors to Art Basel’s “OVR: Miami Beach”, (the art fair’s new online viewing room), will have the opportunity to experience a brand new AR work by Lu Yang. By downloading the free Acute Art app users will […]
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Watch Unreal City – London’s biggest AR exhibition in partnership with Dazed Media
Acute Art and Dazed Media have joined forces to present Unreal City, London’s biggest public festival of AR art which features 36 sculptures arranged as a walking tour along the River Thames. The sculptures are arranged across 24 sites between Waterloo Bridge and Millennium Bridge on the Southbank by leading artists from all over the world including Nina Chanel Abney, Olafur Eliasson, Cao Fei, Alicja Kwade, […]
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Major AR exhibition curated by Acute Art opens at UCCA
From November 28 2020, to February 10, 2021, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing presents “Mirage: Contemporary Art in Augmented Reality,” a special exhibition for augmented reality (AR) organised in collaboration with Acute Art and curated by Daniel Birnbaum. “Mirage” stands as the first major institutional project of its kind. As a medium, AR […]
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Marina Abramović’s ‘Rising’ at the Bangkok Art Biennale
Marina Abramović’s first VR work, Rising, is now on view at the The PARQ during this year’s Bangkok Art Biennale. Open until 31 January 2021, visitors will have the opportunity to make contact with the virtual Abramović, before finding themselves surrounded by a dramatic scene of melting polar ice caps. Abramović urges viewers to reconsider their impact on the world […]
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‘density’ by Koo Jeong A in the Pullman Art Run
Acute Art are delighted to announce that density by Koo Jeong A is now on view as part of the Pullman Art Run presented in partnership with Art Night. To view the art trail, simply download the map here and the free Acute Art app. Once you have reached the correct location, open the app […]
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KAWS at Nuit Blanche
An exclusive new AR work by KAWS will go live on the Acute Art app this weekend at the Parisian arts festival, Nuit Blanche. Taking place on Saturday 3 October, the all night event begins at 7pm and ends at 7am on 4 October. To view the works, residents and visitors to Paris will need […]
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AR-BEIT: a new augmented reality series by Alicja Kwade
Acute Art is delighted to announce the new augmented reality series, AR-BEIT by esteemed artist Alicja Kwade. This is the second AR project realised in collaboration with the artist. Free to download via the Acute Art app, this series consists of four individual sculptures and installations inspired by works from the artist’s oeuvre. Unlike their […]
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Launching The Four Temperaments AR by Marco Brambilla
Coinciding with Berlin Art Week, Acute Art and Marco Brambilla are delighted to launch The Four Temperaments AR: a brand new AR work featuring, Cate Blanchett. In The Four Temperaments AR, Cate Blanchett performs four sets of distinct character types divided according to a personality classification first defined by the Greek philosopher, Galen. He named the four […]
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Acute Art at Berlin Art Week
For this year’s Berlin Art Week, Acute Art are delighted to present multiple projects: Nina Chanel Abney at Berghain Visitors to Berghain, the notorious Berlin nightclub turned exhibition space, will discover Nina Chanel Abney’s Imaginary Friend floating outside the entrance. Having officially launched earlier in the summer, visitors will have the opportunity to view this monumental AR work by downloading […]
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Nina Chanel Abney premieres her first AR artwork, ‘Imaginary Friend.’
Launching today, Acute Art is delighted to present Imaginary Friend, Nina Chanel Abney’s first AR artwork, free to download via the Acute Art app. Imaginary Friend tells us of a story in which a character, reminiscent of a religious figure like a sage, tries to give a blessing to a friend, but he refuses it as […]
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Acute Art Live with Darren Bader
Tune in this Wednesday, 26th July at 2pm (EST/New York) / 7pm (BST/London), for a live Instagram conversation between artist Darren Bader and Artistic Director, Daniel Birnbaum. Click on the stories icon on the @acuteart_ Instagram profile to join. Darren Bader recently collaborated with Acute Art on Mendes Mundi: a series of AR artworks, which are now available on […]
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Try KAWS: HOLIDAY SPACE in AR!
Acute Art is delighted to present HOLIDAY SPACE, a free new AR work by KAWS. On 16th August, in collaboration with AllRightsReserved, the artist launched this iconic COMPANION figure into space, in celebration of the character’s 20th anniversary. Using a sounding balloon, the KAWS:HOLIDAY SPACE sculpture was sent up 41.5km into the stratosphere, and took a two hour zero […]
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Mendes Mundi by Darren Bader, now on the Acute Art app!
From today, Darren Bader’s ongoing AR project, Mendes Mundi, is now available on the Acute Art app. In the artist’s words “It’s origins are particular, but just as easily forgotten.” M. Mundi brings together bestiary, flea market capitalism, senseless census, and umpteenth generation Surrealism. “It’s also a Mark di Suvero study,” says Bader. The AR “denizens” of […]
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Enter our London Mastaba AR competition!
Have you visited The London Mastaba AR (Hyde Park) yet? Visit the Serpentine Lake this summer or place the ‘at home’ version and enter our competition for a chance to win taschen’s new 40th anniversary edition of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s publication. Featuring hundreds of photographs and original works, this catalogue offers a glimpse of the duos most iconic […]
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New AR works by Cao Fei, now available on the app!
Download the free Acute Art app and experience brand new AR works by Cao Fei! From today, users of the app can discover The Eternal Wave AR: Li Nova – an extension of The Eternal Wave project, which began as a VR piece premiering at the Serpentine Galleries earlier in the year. Users are able to place […]
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Acute Art’s CEO on ‘Monocle 24: The Bulletin with UBS’ podcast
Listen to Acute Art’s CEO, Jacob De Geer discuss ‘digital disruption’ with Tom Edwards for Monocle’s The Bulletin with UBS podcast. Released on Monday 27 July 2020, this Art Special explains how technological advancements are continuing to disrupt the art world, making it more relevant and accessible to a wider audience. Tune in at 41:20 […]
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Cao Fei’s The Eternal Wave, now in AR
Acute Art is delighted to announce that from 4 August the Serpentine Galleries will reopen to the public with a new AR work by Cao Fei. Visitors to the gallery will be able to engage with the experience via the free Acute Art app on their smartphones. Earlier this year, Acute Art premiered Cao Fei’s first […]
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Doug Aitken on Acute Live
Join us this Thursday, 23rd July 12pm (EST/New York) / 5pm (BST/London), for a live Instagram conversation between artist Doug Aitken and Artistic Director, Daniel Birnbaum. Click on the stories icon on the Acute Art Instagram profile to join. Using the landscape around him as both subject and medium, Doug Aitken creates works that illuminate how […]
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Prerequisites 7 by Koo Jeong A, Now on the Acute Art App
Due to the global success of Koo Jeong A’s first augmented reality project, the Prerequisites 7 (2019) series is now available on the free Acute Art app for people to enjoy wherever they are. Prerequisites 7 includes five animated drawings that can be placed on the wall, from a curious crouching frog to a flying […]
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The London Mastaba returns to the Serpentine in AR
Artists’ final large-scale public artwork recreated in Augmented Reality by Acute Art in collaboration with the Serpentine Galleries
Acute Art are delighted to announce from today (8 July) visitors to Hyde Park can virtually summon one of the best loved public artworks of recent years, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The London Mastaba, on their smartphones. The launch of The London Mastaba AR (Hyde Park) (2020) brings this iconic sculpture back to the Serpentine via the free Acute […]
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Alicja Kwade on Instagram Live
We are thrilled to announce our next Acute Live with Alicja Kwade and Daniel Birnbaum. Join us for ‘A Conversation’ this Wednesday 1 July 12pm (EST/New York) / 5pm (BST/London). Click on the stories icon on the Acute Art Instagram profile to join. Alicja Kwade is known for her enigmatic sculptures and installations that explore concepts of space, […]
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Georges Adéagbo on Acute Art Live
We are thrilled to announce our next Acute Art Live with sculptor Georges Adéagbo and artistic director Daniel Birnbaum. Watch ‘Afro-European Assemblage’ live on instagram this Thursday 18 June at 2pm (NY/EST) or 7pm (UK/BST). Join by clicking the stories icon on the Acute Art profile. Adéagbo, creates site-specific installations where news cuttings, posters, books, postcards, […]
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Instagram Live with Akram Zaatari
Tune in on tomorrow (Tuesday 9 June) for a conversation between artist Akram Zaatari and Daniel Birnbaum. ‘A Conversation’ will be live on Instagram at 12PM (EST/New York) / 5PM (BST/London) over on the @acuteart_ page. In photography, film, video, and installation, Beirut-based artist Akram Zaatari (Lebanese, born 1966) has built a complex body of […]
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Isaac Julien on Acute Art Live
We are thrilled to announce our next Acute Art Live will be with celebrated artist and filmmaker, Isaac Julien. Tune in to watch A Conversation tomorrow (Friday) at 12PM (EST) / 5PM (BST) over on the @acuteart_ instagram page. Julien came to prominence in the film world with his 1989 drama-documentary Looking for Langston, gaining a cult following […]
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Instagram Live with Max Hollein on The Future of the Museum
Join the Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Max Hollein and Artistic Director, Daniel Birnbaum live on Instagram this Wednesday 27 May. Tune in to watch The Future of the Museum at 12PM (EST) / 5PM (BST) over on the @acuteart_ instagram page. For more updates about our upcoming Instagram Live programme click to follow us and join our mailing […]
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Tomás Saraceno on Acute Art Live
Join artist Tomás Saraceno and Artistic Director, Daniel Birnbaum live on Instagram this Saturday 24 May. Tune in to watch The Cosmic Webs at 12PM (EST) / 5PM (BST) over on the @acuteart_ instagram page. Tomás Saraceno is best known for incorporating physics, engineering, aeronautics, arachnology into his interactive and evolving artistic structures. His past projects include the Metropolitan […]
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Instagram Live with Marco Brambilla
We are thrilled to announce our next Acute Art Live with film director Marco Brambilla and Daniel Birnbaum. Tune in to watch Electronic Pragmatism this Wednesday at 1PM (EST) / 6PM (BST) over on the @acuteart_ instagram page. For his latest project with Acute Art, Brambilla has transformed his 2012 2D work, Creation (Megaplex) into VR. Set between the […]
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Join Olafur Eliasson on Instagram Live
Acute Art Live is delighted to present ‘WUNDERKAMMER’: a conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Daniel Birnbaum, live on Instagram, this Thursday 14 May at 1pm (EST) and 6pm (BST). In 2017, Acute Art collaborated with the artist to produce Rainbow, a VR production which generates an ephemeral natural phenomenon – a rainbow – through interactive digital processes. […]
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Acute Art Live with Daniel Birnbaum and Cecilia Alemani
On Monday 11 May at 1pm (EST/US time) and 6pm (BST/UK time) join Cecilia Alemani, curator of the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale and Artistic Director of Acute Art, Daniel Birnbaum live on Instagram for a conversation entitled, ‘The Future of Everything.’ Alemani, was previously the director and chief curator of High Line Art, the […]
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Join KAWS and Daniel Birnbaum for A Conversation on Instagram Live
Join Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS, and Artistic Director, Daniel Birnbaum live on instagram on Wednesday 6 May at 2pm (EST/US time) and 7pm (BST/UK time). KAWS is recognized globally as one of the most influential artists working today. Throughout his career, the New York artist has created everything from murals and paintings to large-scale sculptures for […]
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Bjarne Melgaard’s ‘My Trip’ on Frieze Viewing Room, May 8-15
Acute Art and Daniel Birnbaum are delighted to announce their presentation of My Trip by Bjarne Melgaard in the Frieze Viewing Room, a new virtual viewing platform. Presented as a featured exhibition in the curated section of Frieze’s new initiative, hosting the Frieze New York 2020 edition online, this new mobile app and web-based platform enables […]
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Acute Art Live with Matthew Slotover
Tune in on Monday 4 May at 6pm (BST/UK time) and join Frieze founder Matthew Slotover and Artistic Director of Acute Art, Daniel Birnbaum live on Instagram. Matthew Slotover OBE, co-founded Frieze, a leading magazine of contemporary art and culture, in 1991 along with Amanda Sharp and Tom Gidley. In 2003, Slotover and Sharp established […]
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Cao Fei and Daniel Birnbaum on Instagram Live
Tomorrow, Wednesday 29 April at 2pm (BST/UK time) join Artistic Director Daniel Birnbaum live on Instagram with artist and filmmaker Cao Fei for a conversation entitled,’On Journeys in Space and Time.’ To watch the conversation, click on the stories icon on the @acuteart_ instagram page at 2pm. Click to follow us and join our mailing list for more updates about our […]
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Join Acute Art on Instagram Live
Tune in tomorrow, Saturday 25 April at 6pm and join Artistic Director, Daniel Birnbaum live on Instagram with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries. The curators will discuss everything from art, technology and ecology over @AcuteArt_ on Instagram. To watch the conversation, click on the stories icon on the Acute Art instagram page at 6pm. Click to follow […]
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Daniel Birnbaum: ”We Will Need New Ways to Interact With Art After Lockdown. I Believe Virtual Reality Is the Answer”
Published on artnet news, Daniel Birnbaum writes on the challenges facing the production and display of art today. From the climate emergency to the current pandemic-related lockdown worldwide, virtual reality holds the promise of new possibilities going forward in a post-lockdown world. Read more on artnet news here.
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View digital artworks by Acute Art at home
A step by step guide on how to view VR and AR artworks wherever you are
Discover AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality) artworks within the comfort of your own home by following Acute Art’s step by step guide: AR artworks Discover AR downloading the free Acute Art app available on the App Store and Google Play. Choose an artwork from the artist menu on the bottom of your screen. Double tap to place and […]
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Anish Kapoor at Waddesdon Manor, 25 March
Note: Please check institution websites for up-to-date information regarding closures and suspension of VR experiences. Sign up to our newsletter at the bottom of the page and we’ll keep you updated on all our exhibitions. You can also follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Acute Art presents Into Yourself, Fall by Anish Kapoor at Waddesdon Manor, […]
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Serpentine Galleries to feature Cao Fei’s ‘The Eternal Wave’
Note: Please check institution websites for up-to-date information regarding closures and suspension of VR experiences. Sign up to our newsletter at the bottom of the page and we’ll keep you updated on all our exhibitions. You can also follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Acute Art presents Cao Fei’s ‘The Eternal Wave’ in association with […]
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Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg opening 25 January in Berlin
Note: Please check institution websites for up-to-date information regarding closures and suspension of VR experiences. Sign up to our newsletter at the bottom of the page and we’ll keep you updated on all our exhibitions. You can also follow us on Instagram and Facebook. ‘It Will End in Stars’, the first virtual reality artwork created […]
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Anish Kapoor at SIGNS, Istanbul
Note: Please check institution websites for up-to-date information regarding closures and suspension of VR experiences. Sign up to our newsletter at the bottom of the page and we’ll keep you updated on all our exhibitions. You can also follow us on Instagram and Facebook. SIGNS, Istanbul, a new platform for arts, presents Anish Kapoor’s Into […]
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Watch: ‘Omni’, a new VR film by Ai Weiwei
Published 21 January, to coincide with a wide-ranging interview on the Guardian (read here), Ai Weiwei’s ‘Omni’ (2019) can be watched in full online now: Ai’s new project ‘Omni’ (2019), his first virtual reality artwork, brings together two videos – Displaced Working Elephants in Myanmar and Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh – and gives viewers an […]
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Ai Weiwei & Guardian Live on 30 January
Ai Weiwei launches Omni, the artist’s 360° immersive documentary film works, with a sold out Guardian Live event at Cadogan Hall on 30 January 2020. The artist will be in conversation with Guardian Arts Editor, Alex Needham. Omni, Ai’s first virtual reality artwork, brings together two videos – Displaced Working Elephants in Myanmar and Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh – giving […]
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Koo Jeong A at Waddesdon Manor, 1 February
Koo Jeong A’s density will be exhibited in the grounds and gardens of Waddesdon Manor from 1 February. Viewers are able to activate the geo-located works in specific areas and events around the world by downloading the Acute Art app. At Waddesdon, density will appear at four locations on the estate, where it is seen against 19th-century architecture […]
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Daniel Birnbaum presents ‘Electric’ at Serralves Foundation
On January 24, Daniel Birnbaum presents ‘Electric’ at Serralves Foundation, Porto. He will introduce the programme with a lecture at the museum at 7pm. ‘Electric’ is a programme of virtual reality artworks curated by Daniel Birnbaum featuring Anish Kapoor, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg in addition to Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Rainbow’ (2017) coinciding with ‘Y/Our Time is Now’, […]
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Bjarne Melgaard at New Frontier, Sundance Film Festival
We’re thrilled to be able to announce Bjarne Melgaard’s ‘My Trip’ has been accepted to New Frontier! The programme takes place at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in January 2020. The Sundance Institute spotlights work at the dynamic crossroads of film, art and technology with the New Frontier selections for 2020. This […]
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Watch now: A Year in Review
A look back at a few highlights this year for Acute Art. With an amazing line up of future projects to come in 2020 we look forward to sharing more in the new year. Acute Art – Year in Review from Acute Art on Vimeo.
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Extended: Bjarne Melgaard at Julia Stoschek Collection
Bjarne Melgaard’s ‘My Trip’ has been extended at Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin and will close on 12 January 2020. — Acute Art and Julia Stoschek Collection are delighted to present a new VR work by Norwegian artist, Bjarne Melgaard. About My Trip My Trip (2019) takes the viewer on a journey to the farthest […]
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‘density’ augmented reality at Skate, Somerset House
Skate at Somerset House presents Koo Jeong A’s augmented reality ice cube, density (2019). Launching Wednesday, 13 November, the augmented reality project which sees Jeong A’s detailed drawing of an ice cube realised in 3D. density will be visible to visitors who download the free Acute Art app can activate the AR piece during their visit to […]
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Acute Artists at Phi Centre, Montreal opens October 29
Phi Centre’s upcoming exhibition explores the boundless realm of virtuality with artists including Marina Abramović, Olafur Eliasson, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Antony Gormley & Priyamvada Natarajan, Anish Kapoor and an augmented reality work by Koo Jeong A. The exhibition opens on the 29th of October at Phi Centre in Montreal through to 19 January […]
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Alicja Kwade at MIT List Visual Arts Center
Acute Art debuts a new augmented reality artwork by artist Alicja Kwade this week as part of Alicja Kwade: In Between Glances at the List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. LinienLand (2019), a temporary architectural intervention in Augmented Reality (AR), is situated in multiple locations around MIT: McDermott Court, the Upper Courtyard, and Lobby 7. This […]
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’Spacing Philosophy’: Daniel Birnbaum in conversation at Julia Stoschek Collection
To celebrate the publication of ‘Spacing Philosophy: Lyotard and the Idea of the Exhibition’ co-authors Daniel Birnbaum (Director, Acute Art) and Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Philosopher) will be in conversation with author Isabelle Graw. The event takes place: Sunday, October 13 3pm JSC Berlin Leipziger Str. 60, 10117 Entry to JSC is €5 on the door
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AR at Frieze Sculpture, Regent’s Park
Acute Art presents Koo Jeong A’s augmented reality artwork, density (2019), as part of Frieze Sculpture, taking place in Regent’s Park this summer and culminating with Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Oct 3–6. Join us for a special viewing of the work on Friday, October 4 at 5pm – meeting at Tom Sach’s sculpture (S2). […]
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‘Lunatick’ at Moody Center for the Arts, Houston
Antony Gormley and Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan’s first virtual reality collaboration, Lunatick (2019) will be presented as part of ‘Moon Shot’ at the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 space flight,’Moon Shot’, opening September 20, features artworks responding to the moon landing by a selection of innovative artists working from […]
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Last chance to see Acute Art works at Centre Phi, Venice
Marking the final phase of a 6 month-collaboration, which opened May 6, running parallel to the 58th International Biennale Arte in Venice, Acute Art and Phi present works Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Antony Gormley, Marina Abramović and Olafur Eliasson from September 15 – October 28, 2019.
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New Works: Mark Leckey, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Marco Brambilla
Acute Art is delighted to announce new works it has produced, coming this autumn, but international artists including Turner Prize-winning Mark Leckey, video installation artist Marco Brambilla and the second virtual artwork, in collaboration with Acute Art, by Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg. View artist profiles: Marco Brambilla Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg Mark Leckey
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Opening August 28 – Phi Centre Phase III
Marking the final phase of a 6 month-collaboration, which opened May 6, running parallel to the 58th International Biennale Arte in Venice, Acute Art and Phi present works Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Antony Gormley, Marina Abramović and Olafur Eliasson from September 15 – October 28, 2019.
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Acute Art at Phi Centre Venice, Opening July 22
The second phase in Acute Art’s collaboration with Phi, sees two further works go on view alongside Marina Abramović’s Rising which has been on view since the Venice Biennale opened in May. The works to debut in July are Anish Kapoor’s Into Yourself, Fall and Olafur Eliasson’s Rainbow. The works on display in the gallery […]
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Launch of VR programme at Julia Stoschek Collection
Acute Art announces a collaboration with Julia Stoschek Collection to present a Virtual Reality exhibition programme, premiering with a new VR work by Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard and AR works by Koo Jeong A in October 2019. The Julia Stoschek Collection, which is based in Berlin and Düsseldorf, will provide a space in Berlin to […]
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Art Night 2019 with Marina Abramovic
Rising, a virtual reality artwork by Marina Abramović, will receive it’s UK premiere at Art Night 2019, London’s largest free contemporary art festival. This year’s festival takes place in extraordinary spaces around Walthamstow and King’s Cross on 22 June. Reserve your viewing slot for Rising at the Everyman Theatre in King’s Cross from 11pm until 3am. Screenings will take place every 20 […]
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Koo Jeong A at Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Coinciding with Art Basel, opening 13–16 June, Acute Art will present two AR works by Koo Jeong A in the garden of the Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Viewers are able to activate the geo-located AR works in specific areas and events around the world by downloading the Acute Art app.
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Acute Art at Beat Film Festival, Moscow
Running from 31 May–June 16, as part of the VR programme at the Beat Film Festival in Moscow, Acute Art will present works by Marina Abramović, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, Anish Kapoor and Louisa Clement. Screenings take place daily, once an hour, from 12pm – 8pm. Book your tickets now
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Marina Abramovic’s first virtual reality artwork to be presented at the 58th Venice Biennale
We are delighted to announce that Rising, a virtual reality artwork by Marina Abramović, will be presented by Phi during the 58th Venice Biennale at Palazzo Ca’ Rezzonico opening May 6. Marina Abramović’s virtual reality piece addresses climate change by transporting viewers to witness the effects of rising sea levels. Wearing an immersive headset, viewers enter an intimate virtual space, […]
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Koo Jeong A’s drawings brought to life in AR for the 58th Venice Biennale
Acute Art is delighted to present Koo Jeong A’s first augmented reality (AR) artwork Prerequisites 7 featuring seven of her drawings in 3D and 2D, during the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 8–12 May 2019. The drawings brought to life in AR are a collection of pen drawings from the artist’s book […]
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Daniel Birnbaum in conversation with Johnny Golding and John Slyce
Join us at 7pm on 24 April at The Store X, 180 The Strand, for an after hours viewing of Lunatick, and a conversation between Royal College of Art Professor Johnny Golding, author John Slyce and Director of Acute Art, Daniel Birnbaum. Doors will open from 6pm and viewings will take place before and after the talk until […]
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New dates added for Lunatick! Extended until 5 May
We are delighted to announce that Lunatick at The Store X, 180 The Strand, has now been extended until 5 May.
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More tickets released for Lunatick, by Antony Gormley and Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan
Due to popular demand, more tickets have been released for Antony Gormley and Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan’s first VR collaboration, Lunatick at The Store X, 180 The Strand. Gormley, whose lifelong focus has been to investigate the body-in-space, first met the acclaimed astrophysicist and Yale professor, Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan at Trinity College Cambridge after he was invited by by […]
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Major Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg exhibition opens at Schirn Kunsthalle
Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s immersive virtual reality experience, It Will End in Stars is now on view in their latest exhibition A Journey Through Mud and Confusion with Small Glimpses of Air at the Schirn Kunsthalle until 26 May. View more information here
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Aporias by Louisa Clement, now on view at Sprengel Museum
Louisa Clement’s first ever VR, Aporias, is now on view at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover until 6 October 2019. The work continues the German artist’s interest in real and artificial bodies, and automations, translating her celebrated photographic work into virtual reality.
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Daniel Birnbaum to curate ‘Electric’ for Frieze New York
Electric, curated by Daniel Birnbaum presents a selection of VR and AR artworks by artists of different generations, including Anish Kapoor and Rachel Rossin, who explore this new medium from radically different angles. “When a new medium emerges and is employed by artists there appears to be a window of a few years that allows for […]
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Acute Art presents Daniel Birnbaum in conversation with Michelle Kuo
Join us for a lecture on art and technology delivered by curator Michelle Kuo, followed by a conversation with Daniel Birnbaum, in celebration of their recent publication More Than Real: Art in the Digital Age. Michelle Kuo, former editor-in-chief of Artforum, stepped down last year to become the Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture […]
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Acute Art presents Daniel Birnbaum in conversation with Mark Leckey
Daniel Birnbaum is joined by Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey for a conversation on lending enchantment to digital materials and other stories. Since the late 1990’s, Mark Leckey’s sculpture, sound, film and performance practice has addressed the radical effect of technology on popular culture. He returns frequently to the themes of desire and transformation, […]
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Marina Abramovic launches new app ahead of her participation at the Nobel Week Dialogue
“Only when we change ourselves can we change others. Water matters.” Marina Abramović Marina Abramović will deliver a performance lecture at the Nobel Week Dialogue in Stockholm on 9 December 2018. Abramović is launching an app called Rising, letting users make active choices to take better care of the environment daily actions. The app is […]