The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf shows the first presentation of the latest work of Bettina Rheims "gender studies" in a show with sound installation - 27 almost supernaturally beautiful photos of androgynous young people from around the world are surrounded by a soundscape of their own voices to be seen. The viewer hears "the voice of the new third sex," the artist says about this installation.

For decades, design has been looking for something new, for something different – often at the expense of resources and global justice. Many companies have already had to learn things the hard way, because they ignored contemporary social values. Others have learned from the crisis and take social and ecological matters into consideration in their business strategies. Discover at TYPO Berlin 2012 sustain the long-living and the constant in design!

Stefan Moses is passionate about meeting his fellow humans and seeing their faces. His portraits are unmistakably sympathetic. They are also marked by the humor and fantasy used by the photographer to achieve his subjects' playful cooperation. His art moves beyond mere portraiture to capture the depth of the person's character and energy.

From a collective show on the theme of water involving five Japanese women photographers - Asako Narahashi, Rinko Kawauchi, Lieko Shiga, Yumiko Utsu and Mayumi Hosokura - to Natures, a real and metaphorical dialogue between two of Japan’s most interesting contemporary women photographers.

In Between: the starting point and the final destination of a long journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway. In between the centers of the big cities, where the eyes and the imagination find room to wander. In between ambiguous perceptions and away from ones own culture. In between a different experience of space and time, within the confining walls of the train compartment, for many days, with complete strangers.

The exhibition Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk presents a contemporary perspective of the historical idea of the total work of art. With appropriate scepticism, artists have undertaken to review this legendary figure of thought, thereby casting a critical eye on the history of Modernism: with the upheaval caused by the avant-garde after 1918 and the work theories developed by Schwitters, Duchamp, or Artaud, a holistic and socially critical way of thinking set in as a relevant force.

The Centre for Fine Arts presents a retrospective of the work of Per Kirkeby (born in 1938), one of the key painters of the Danish avant-garde. But just what does avant-garde mean: rupture, minimalism, abstraction, borrowings, subversion? One can find all of those in a prolific body of work that began in the 1960s in the wake of the Fluxus movement.

The South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s (b. Johannesburg 1976) monumental photographs, centred around contemporary Africa, are now well known around the world. He has already won numerous awards including the KLM Paul Huf award in 2008 and was recently nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012. In the coming year the Hague Museum of Photography will be the first museum to exhibit a comprehensive survey of Hugo’s work from 2002-2011.

A person’s entire life represented by a single instant. The photographic portrait as a form of visual biography. With great sensitivity and care, Arnold Newman brought these aspects so strongly into the foreground that they became symbols and clues to the person’s character. With their powerful metaphoric quality, his photographs represent a cross-section of twentieth century culture.

ROSPHOTO introduces to audience the work of Franco Fontana, one of the most outstanding masters of contemporary art photography in Italy. The retrospective exhibition embraces photographs from the period of 1970-2007, from the author's own collection.

"These are images from another time…These are images of people whose lives I shared…These are images of women - biologically born as men - that we call 'transsexuals'. As for me, I call them 'my friends of Place Blanche'. This friendship started here, in the early 60s and it still continues." Christer Strömholm, 1983.

Michael Hoppen is pleased to present Compulsion, an exhibition of new work by contemporary artist Alex Prager. The exhibition will feature 22 colour photographs from the series, as well as the artist’s new short film, La Petite Mort, with accompanying film stills. The exhibition will be shown simultaneously in London, Los Angles and New York.

This exhibition will present a series of seventeen new large-scale paintings based on the cover designs of the Fontana Modern Masters series, a set of pocket guides published in the 1970s on eminent writers, philosophers and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust.

The exhibition of well know German photographer Barbara Klemm takes place at ROSPHOTO within the official program of the German Week in St.-Petersburg. Most of the photographs on display were made for Frankfurter Allgemeime Zeitung which Barbara Klemm has collaborated with for a long time.

Diane Arbus (1923–1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves.

For over thirty years, the New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. The New York Times Magazine Photographs is an exhibition that reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution.

Anastasia Photo is pleased to present Jonathan Alpeyrie’s first exhibition with the gallery. Born in Paris in 1979, Jonathan Alpeyrie’s career as a photojournalist stretches over a decade, and has brought him to over 25 countries, covering 11 conflict zones, mostly in East Africa, the South Caucasus, and central Asia. He is a staff photographer for Polaris Images and his photographs have been widely published in magazines and newspapers around the world including Paris Match, Times (Europe), Newsweek, Boston Globe, Glamour (France and Spain) and The New York Times.

This installation, located outside the entrance to the fourth-floor Painting and Sculpture Galleries, highlights seven sculptures by Cy Twombly, all recent additions to the collection. Though best known for his paintings, Twombly has dedicated himself to making sculptures throughout his 60-year career. He composes his sculptures from found materials, small objects, scrap wood, and plaster, and typically covers the assembled forms with white paint, unifying the various humble materials and giving them an ethereal presence. Intimate in scale, Twombly’s sculptures engage in an ongoing dialogue with his paintings, several of which are also on view in the newly reinstalled fourth-floor collection galleries.

Starting from a drawing or photograph, Bernard Pras creates amazing pieces of art, by adding ordinary objects like used toys, tools, pieces of rubber, or whatever else you can think of. From up-close his works look like nothing more than random stacks of stuff, but from a certain angle and distance, they reveal their true beauty.

The large-format portraits featured in the exhibition »Inwards and Onwards« testify to the substantial body of artistic work that Anton Corbijn has created. Apart from striking photographs of true music legends such as Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith or Tom Waits, who have always fascinated Corbijn, the photographer has focussed in his recent work on modern personifications of artistic inspiration such as Marlene Dumas, Gilbert & George or Jeff Koons.