Kristina Foster

The artist fled Iran for Berlin to find freedom. She explains why her work is the celebration of ‘a life unbound’

From Wayne Thiebaud’s whipped confections to a post-apocalyptic video game, these are the season’s essential exhibitions

The artist has coated museums, a bathhouse, and even her own bedroom in swaths of colour — next stop: Art Basel

The Czech artist talks about how she created her disorienting, beguiling sculptural installation in Berlin

From the ‘emotional’ impact of defence architecture to lava as building material, don’t miss these shows

From sonic innovator Alice Coltrane to Olafur Eliasson’s wizardry, these are the must-see shows

From Billie Zangewa’s tender collages at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum to Joel Meyerowitz’s vibrant colour photography at NSU Art Museum

Korean-born Lee’s kinetic sculptures capture the messiness of being alive

The section features helium-propelled penguins and alabaster creatures

Her body-warping works entrap performers and make audiences consider how and why we give away our power

The artist’s diverse oeuvre and flamboyant lifestyle sometimes obscured her true talent

During Art Basel Miami Beach, the city is transformed into a hotbed for art deals and debates. Art Basel’s Conversations programme this year brings together 30 cultural experts to discuss topics from international art markets to creative fungi that shed light on local art scenes as well as some of the pressing questions facing the industry. This year the programme has a special emphasis on Latin America. A talk from artist and teacher María Magdalena Campos-Pons, whose spiritual multimedia work…

In the past 30 years the work of German painter Daniel Richter has rarely stood still. Throughout his career he has probed pattern and gesture, swung between abstraction and realism, and captured the disquiet of modern Europe. When I ask the artist if he ever gets tired of asking himself what’s next, he responds in the frank manner for which he has become known: “No, I would say the main challenge for myself is to not be bored.” We meet at his studio in the Schöneberg neighbourhood of Berlin on…

“Nomadism is part of our identity and we love the adventure,” says Silvia Ammon, director of contemporary art fair Paris Internationale (PI). Created in 2015 to promote artists on the periphery of the establishment, for its ninth edition the dynamic fair will take over four floors of a Modernist concrete landmark, Central téléphonique Le Coeur in Le Marais, with 71 galleries exhibiting from 25 countries. Since its debut, the “collegial initiative” has charged smaller participation fees than its…

A new exhibition at Munich’s Haus der Kunst begins with a surreal directive in the opening wall text: “Become a cat.” The instruction makes sense once you get to the first work, Tsuruko Yamazaki’s “Red (Shape of Mosquito Net)” (1956), a giant lantern suspended just off the ground, whose glowing, red interior must be accessed by crawling in from below. Other works also inspire a feline curiosity: next door, Aleksandra Kasuba’s monumental “Spectral Passage” (1975) is a rainbow-hued labyrinth that…

In a week abuzz with exhibition openings, events and art fairs, London gallerist Jonny Tanna is trying to cut through the noise with the launch of what he describes as “a new non-fair”. With two selling exhibitions across spaces in Soho and London Bridge, the inaugural Minor Attractions seeks to offer an alternative fair model with late opening hours and a relaxed social vibe. “The idea of the non-fair is to encourage an atmosphere that’s more about discussing and enjoying the art as opposed to…

It seems there’s no stopping Fotografiska. Next week, the private museum group opens its fourth branch in Berlin (after Stockholm, New York and Tallinn), with a fifth scheduled for Shanghai by the end of this year. Since launching in Sweden in 2010, the maverick photography hub has become known for throwing out the museology rule book in favour of an innovative approach that combines immersive exhibitions, trendy hospitality offerings, varied event programmes and striking architectural settings.…

This year Frieze Seoul goes multidisciplinary. Beyond the main art fair, now in its second year, an expanded line-up of film and music promises a wide survey of the country’s creative scene. As well as screenings and live performances, visitors are also invited to discover the city’s non-profit art spaces, which, according to curators Sungah Serena Choo and Kim Sung-woo, “are the core of generating dynamism in Korean contemporary art”. The pair are behind the second iteration of Frieze Film in…

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