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audemars piguet contemporary aspen art museum adrian villar rojas

Audemars Piguet Contemporary (APC) and the Aspen Art Museum have co-commissioned a new sculpture by Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas, titled (Untitled) The Language of the Enemy. The work will debut in November in the Jura Mountains, near APC's hometown in the Vallée de Joux, before traveling to the Aspen Art Museum for a multi-floor exhibition in 2026. The sculpture draws a parallel between paleontology and speculative memory, imagining that an encounter with fossilized dinosaur remains might have sparked the earliest act of art-making. APC curator Audrey Teichmann emphasized the organization's role in supporting the artist through inception, research, fabrication, and project management, as well as providing continuous support for a second exhibition and storage of the work between shows.

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canyon museum durational immersive art new york

New York City will gain a major new cultural venue in 2026 called Canyon, a 18,000-square-foot hub on the Lower East Side dedicated to durational, time-based art forms such as video, sound, and performance. Founded by philanthropist and collector Robert Rosenkranz, the space is designed by New Affiliates Architecture and will feature state-of-the-art galleries, a 300-seat performance hall, and a skylit piazza with food and beverage options. Joe Thompson, founding director of MASS MoCA, will serve as the venue's director. Canyon has already appointed conservator Cass Fino-Radin as director of art and technology and curator Sam Ozer as curator-at-large, with partners including Rhizome, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the Archive of Contemporary Music. Its inaugural exhibitions will include a major retrospective of Japanese new media artist Ryoji Ikeda and a show titled "Worldbuilding" curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Zurich’s Galerie Philipp Zollinger Closes After 7 years

Galerie Philipp Zollinger in Zurich is closing after seven years, as announced by founder Philipp Zollinger on Instagram. Citing continued global instability and a lack of conditions necessary to sustain the gallery, Zollinger explained that despite his willingness to invest further, the market no longer supports growth. The gallery focused on Swiss and Scandinavian artists working in three-dimensional media, along with artists from Southeast Asia and the United States. Its final exhibition, a dual presentation of Renée Levi and Theo Eble, closed on April 18 at Galerie Mueller in Basel. The closure follows a previous move from a nomadic operation to a physical space on Rämistrasse, which shut in fall 2025 due to an unstable art market and shifting collecting trends.

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25 of 2025: 5 Artists Transforming Time-Based Media

This article profiles five emerging artists who are transforming time-based media in 2025, focusing on Ayoung Kim and Meriem Bennani. Ayoung Kim, born in 1979 in Seoul, creates immersive works blending live-action footage, CGI, gaming technologies, and AI, with her piece "Delivery Dancer's Sphere" recently acquired by the Tate collection. Meriem Bennani, a Moroccan-born, Brooklyn-based artist, gained acclaim for her video installations and viral "2 Lizards" series, with works held by the Whitney Museum, MoMA, and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

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Renée Levi to transform London’s Hayward Gallery with Audemars Piguet commission this fall.

Swiss painter Renée Levi will create a large-scale two-panel painting for the façade of London’s Hayward Gallery this fall, co-commissioned by the gallery and Audemars Piguet Contemporary. The installation, on view from September 23 to November 15, marks the watch brand’s art programme’s first painting commission and Levi’s first major public commission in the U.K.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 28, 2025 visibility 25 link 2 artists

Adrián Villar Rojas's new sculpture explores 'existential anxieties'

Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas unveiled a new untitled sculpture in Le Brassus, Switzerland, co-commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary and the Aspen Art Museum. The bronze Triceratops skull, part of his series *The Language of the Enemy*, features a rendering of the Venus of Lespugue emerging from one horn and explores themes of communication, conflict, and prehistoric art. The work will travel to the Aspen Art Museum next spring for a solo exhibition.

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article culture schedule Apr 23, 2026 visibility 27 link 7 artists, 1 gallery

Meriem Bennani, the artist who went viral during the pandemic

Meriem Bennani, a New York-based artist known for her shape-shifting practice of videos, installations, and immersive environments, gained viral fame during the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020. She co-created the animated series '2 Lizards' with fellow artist Orian Barki, which depicted surreal, humorous conversations between anthropomorphic reptiles navigating the first weeks of the pandemic in New York City. The series, posted on Instagram, resonated widely and led to eight episodes. Bennani's broader work, including 'Life on the CAPS' (2018–2022) and 'Mission Teens' (2019), blends digital animation, live-action footage, and cultural critique, often exploring themes of diaspora, post-colonialism, and migration through dystopian, supernatural narratives.

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