Don’t miss our art and design recommendations for this month of June. Enjoy these 7 highlights from national and international artists and designers that we present below.
With the rise of the thermometer and the arrival of good weather, you have no excuse not to leave the house. Here we propose 7 recommendations for art and design, fantastic exhibitions and works of art that you won’t want to miss. From architecture to live jazz.
1-The thousand forms of Haegue Yang
Tate Modern proposes the exhibition Haegue Yang: Strange Attractors at its space in Cornwall, the Tate St Ives. This is the largest exhibition of the South Korean artist’s work ever held in the UK.
The Thousand Forms of Haegue Yang at the Tate Modern
This exhibition will include new and existing works. These works reflect Yang’s polivalent character: there are installations, sculptures, drawings, collages and paintings. His work is inspired by the Cornish landscape and its archaeology. In addition, his pieces reflect pagan cultures and natural phenomena through their creative processes.
When:from 24/10/2020 until 26/09/2021 .
Where: Tates St. Ives, (Porthmeor Beach, St Ives Cornwall TR26 1TG)
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 10:00h to 16:30h.
Tickets: You can purchase the tickets here
2- ‘Life’ by Olafur Eliasson at the Fondation Beyeler
‘Life’ by Olafur Eliasson at Fondation Beyeler
The art of Eliasson invites viewers to explorefuture forms of coexistence, embracing multiple perspectives, both human and non-human. The artist immerses the institution in a frontier investigation into our preconceived conceptions of nature and culture.
‘Life’ at Fondation Beyeler
“With ‘Life’, I actively work to create a space of coexistence between those involved in and affected by the exhibition: the art institution, my artwork, the visitors, other beings who join the trees and other plants in the park, the urban landscape surrounding the museum and beyond. Through collective exploration of the world we share, we can, I hope, make it habitable for all species” – Olafur Eliasson
When: from 17/05/2021 to 11/07/2021.
Where: Fondation Beyeler (Baselstrasse 101, 4125 Basel, Switzerland).
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 9:00h to 20:30h.
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased here .
3-La Pedrera Jazz
Live a unique experience in the exceptional setting of the rooftop of La Pedrera. Enjoy 9 unique concerts this summer, every Friday from 4 June to 30 July 2021. The cartel is a combination of the most representative figures of the current jazz scene to achieve an unbeatable live soundtrack.
The bands and artists are The Bop Collective, Félix Rossy and Toni Saigi, Milena Casado Quartet, Lucia Fumero in trio format and Eva Fernánez, Enma Fernández, KALEIDOSCOPE, Ana Carla Maza or Martí Serra Quartet with Rita Payés and her tribute to Nina Simone, who will welcome the summer.
During Jazz Nights, La Pedrera becomes the epicentre of jazz in Barcelona. The rooftop is transformed into an exceptional setting to enjoy the night, the splendid views of the city and the best live music.
The Pedrera Jazz begins with a free visit to the loft, the attic of the whale, the interpretative space of Gaudí’s work; followed by a concert on the rooftop, an emblematic, unique and suggestive place, which invites you to experience the architecture, the night, the city and the music in a different way.
When: from 04/06/2021 to 30/07/2021.
Where? La Pedrera (Passeig de Gràcia, 92, 08008 Barcelona)
Timetable: every Friday from 19:00h to 20:00h.
Tickets: You can purchase tickets here .
4-Serpentine Pavilion inaugurates pavilion
The 20th Serpentine Pavilion, designed for the Johannesburg-based practice ‘Counterspace’, led by Sumayya Vally, will open on 11 June 2021. A TIME100 Next List award-winner, Vally is the youngest architect to be commissioned for this internationally renowned architecture programme.
Serpentine Pavilion 2021, designed by Counterspace
The Serpentine‘s annual architecture commission presents new temporary buildings by international architects. Open annually from June to October, the Pavilion hosts live programmes and events, including nights in the park.
Here are 2 exhibitions from the Serpentine Galleries that are not to be missed:
James Barnor: London/Accra, a retrospective
The Serpentine Gallery presents an exhibition by British-Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, showing importantsocial and political changes in London and Accra, through his works.
Barnor, studio portraitist, photojournalist and black lifestyle photographer, spans six decades and two continents in his work. He established his famous Ever Young studio in Accra in the early 1950s, capturing a nation on the cusp of independence in an atmosphere enlivened by high-living conversation and music.
In 1959 he arrived in London, furthering his studies and continuing the work of the influential South African magazine Drum, which reflected the spirit of the times and the experiences of London’s burgeoning African diaspora.
He returned to Ghana in the early 1970s to establish the country’s first colour processing laboratory, while continuing his work as a portrait photographer and entering the music scene. He returned to London in 1994.
When: from: 19/05/2021 to 22/10/2021.
Where? Serpentine North Gallery (W Carriage Dr, London W2 2AR, UK)
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 10:00h to 18:00h.
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased here .
Jennifer Packer: The eye is not satisfied with seeing
Combining observation, improvisation and memory, Packer’s intimate portraits of friends and family members and paintings of photographs of flowers insist on the emotional and physical essence of the contemporary black lives he depicts.
Jennifer Packer’s paintings recalibrate art historical approaches to these enduring genres, casting them in a political and contemporary light, rooted in a deeply personal context. At times, Packer describes her floral compositions as funeral bouquets and vessels of personal grief; these paintings of loss are often made in response to tragedies of state and institutional violence against black Americans.
When: from: 19/05/2021 to 22/08/2021.
Where? Serpentine Gallery South (London W2 3XA, UK)
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 10:00h to 18:00h.
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased here .
5-The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
The international exhibition is entitled ‘How will we live together?’. It includes 112 participants from 46 different countries, with a growing delegation from Africa, Latin America and Asia and with a comparable representation of men and women.
63 National Participations will give life to the historic pavilions in the Giardini, the Arsenale and in the historic city centre. A total of 17 Collateral Events from national and international non-profit organisations and institutions will take place in different parts of the city.
Obra del pabellón central Giardini, ‘Plan B’
The programme is complemented by the Architecture Meetings, as well as an extensive Educational Programme.
When: from 22/05/2021 to 21/11/2021.
Where? La Biennale di Venezia (Ca’ Giustinian San Marco 1364/A 30124 Venice, Italy).
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00h to 18:00h.
Tickets: Tickets can be purchased here .
6-Balenciaga, the elegance of the hat
The Barcelona Design Museum is hosting the first international monographic exhibition of the hats created by the haute couture house in Paris and Madrid from the 1930s to 1968. ‘Balenciaga, the elegance of the hat‘, brings together a total of 87 hats.
Balenciaga exhibition ‘The elegance of the hat’ at the Barcelona Design Museum
Theinnovative and imaginative shapes, the selection ofexquisite materials, the research of techniques, and the artisan character of his hat production, make this collection a unique, unrepeatable and magnetic work..
Hats from the exhibition at the Barcelona Design Museum
This exhibition allows us to admire some unique pieces and, at the same time, to reveal certain aspects of hat making that are largely unknown, both in terms of the work in the workshops and their dissemination, both of which were mainly carried out by women.
The exhibition highlights the female world, which shaped Balenciaga’s design and creations. The Paris and Madrid departments were run by women, milliners and saleswomen.
When: from 17/06/2021 to 03/10/2021.
Where? Barcelona Design Museum (Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 37, 08018 Barcelona).
Timetable: from 10:15h to 20:00h.
Tickets: You can acquire tickets here
7- Dalí and his “other jewels”
The Dalí Theatre-Museum not only consists of its main and most characteristic building, but also includes a permanent exhibition with the jewellery designed by the Catalan artist: Dalí Joies. These jewels were acquired by the foundation in 1999 after belonging to the American foundation Owen Chetham. Below is a video of the Schiaparelli spring-summer haute couture collection. In 1935 she gave him a powder compact representing the shape of a telephone dial, which was their first collaboration.
In 1973 they had already been exhibited in the Theatre-Museum, before its inauguration to promote its opening. This space opened its doors in 2001 and exhibits the collection of 37 jewels of gold and precious stones as well as 27 drawings and paintings which served as sketches made between 1941 and 1970..
The museum includes an initiative called ‘Tot mirant els Museus Dalí‘, which aims to highlight ‘fragments’ of the three Dalí Museums explained from the inside by museum staff according to their area of work and knowledge. It consists of micro-presentations lasting a maximum of 12 or 15 minutes in face-to-face format and only 2 minutes in video format.
When: Permanent exhibition
Where: Dalí Museum Theatre (Plaza Gala i Salvador Dalí, 5, 17600 Figueres, Girona) (Plaza Gala i Salvador Dalí, 5, 17600 Figueres, Girona).
Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday from 10:30h-15:00h.
Tickets: more information here
