Roger Ballen’s new series of photographs “Boarding House”, also published as a book by Taschen, are haunting images exploring the complex psychological world of the human psyche.

European Alternatives begins a programme of increased collaboration with Latin American partners, particularly focussed on the emancipatory potential of regional integration and the social role of artists, with this conference at the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro.
Monday 14th December, 10am – 6pm
MAM – Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro

Cosmopolitan artists Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson discuss their latest works engaging with migration, challenging national identity and delving into the secretive world of Brussels’ lobbyists.

Three conferences and artistic interventions on the new city, torn between global fluxes of capital and people, and a return of xenophobia and privatisation of public space and culture.
November 6th, 7th, 9th, and 11th – Athens, Belgrade, Zagreb

A group called Iranian Artists in Exile have released videos in several language versions of an open letter to the world calling for solidarity with the Iranian people.

Paul Gilroy on Alfredo Jaar’s cosmopolitan challenge to institutionalised indifference.
The growing inequality between the overdeveloped world and the rest threatens to compromise the ground on which a resurgent understanding of common humanity will eventually have to be erected.

Claudio Magris, author of many works of fiction, editorialist at Corriere della Sera and professor of German literature in Trieste meets Hans Ulrich Obrist, Director at the Serpentine Gallery.

As artists, writers, musicians and thinkers come to London for a Cultural Congress as part of the Festival of Europe, what is the relationship between the arts and engagement in Europe?

Fronteres (closed 30th of September) and Apartheid (until 13th of January) are two exhibitions co-organised (together with the Musée des Confluences) and currently hosted by the Centro de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona.