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Johann König, Berlin presents “Buchtipp 2” – the third solo exhibition of artist Manuel Graf.[...]

“Wüstung und Wüste” is the third exhibition by Uwe Henneken at Galerie Gisela Capitain. The artist is showing seven new oil paintings on canvas, varying in size and format. Uwe Henneken’s work moves between symbolism, romanticism and expressionism.[...]

Visual artist Quintín Rivera Toro, represented by Walter Otero Gallery, has been selected by the Advisory Comitee of the Museo de las Américas, Cuartel de Ballajá, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for his fist comprehensive solo exhibition.[...]

The happiest times of our lives are sometimes tarnished by society, making it harder for our youth to adjust. At times children make up invisible characters and construct masks so they can hide their fears. Personified in a cartoonish way, Jorge Pineda’s characters portray these violent and at sometimes destructive ways.[...]

Ivelisse Jiménez uses painting as a point of departure to construct pieces that deal with the idea of simultaneity and contradiction. The manner in which objects, images and materials are articulated questions the hierarchies of what is most present.[...]

In her first solo show at Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, the Berlin-based artist Johanna Diehl presents works from her series “Displace” – photographs of empty, converted, sometimes destroyed churches and mosques, photographs in the Muslim North and the orthodox Christian south of the divided island Cyprus.[...]

Aaron Salabarrías is a multidisciplinary artist that employs photography and painting as a recurring medium in his installations to present viewers with a dissimilar view of the tired ‘island paradise’ cliché. By decontextualizing objects, he transforms them into sublime readymades that create a dialogue between the object and the spectator.[...]

On view in New York City from March 17th through April, Team Gallery presents the third solo show of New York based photographer Ryan McGinley entitled Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. The 33 year-old artist has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art and at PS1 in New York, at the MUSAC in Spain, and at the Kunsthalle Vienna.[...]

Throughout the history of Central America, there is not one single artist that has flaunted worldwide fame as Guillermo Vargas “Habacuc,” who stepped into the international arena with his solo exhibition at the Códice de Managua gallery in Nicaragua, on August 16th 2007.[...]

Slinkachu is a London-based artist who creates very small street based installations of miniature model train set characters, which are placed on the street and photographed.[...]