Melissa Gronlund is a writer based in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
The Sharjah Art Foundation presents ‘Black Pocket’ a survey of the artist’s work exploring memory and inherited trauma at the hands of imperialism
Or, why the Gulf conflicts never really went away
Melissa Gronlund on the best of a bad year: from activists in Jakarta, images of Mecca and labour negotiations in the UAE
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
Bohemianism, grass-roots activism, urban regeneration and the voices of the dead
Ed. Bruce Jenkins (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2009)
LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain
LUX, London, UK
Sketch, London, UK
Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
Hal Foster’s recent lecture on the archival strategies of Tacita Dean and Gerard Byrne overlooked a younger generation of artists
For his first London solo show, Swedish-born, Berlin-based artist Alexander Gutke presents a film that offers itself as a modern koan at Hollybush Gardens
BALTIC, Gateshead, UK