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💖 Gerhard Richter, reimagined in plush.

Argentine artist Gerónimo Araquistain brings an unexpected material language to Germany, translating one of Richter’s iconic images into reclaimed plush.

Currently presented during Berlin Art Week with LUMBRE Gallery.

An outstanding work. Congratulations to the artist @geroaraquistain and @lumbregallery

@positions.artfair @berlinartweek

#GerhardRichter #ContemporaryArt #BerlinArtWeek #GeronimoAraquistain #LumbreGallery by @rgbwavemag
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🎈 Some structures stand because everyone believes they do.

🎨 With Inflatable Faith, artist @elinasanda.art turns oil painting into a sharp reflection on collective belief, invisible systems and the fragile architectures that organize contemporary life.

🖼️ Part of the Hide and Seek Bachelor's collection, the 200 × 200 cm work asks a simple but unsettling question: what happens when an entire reality depends on shared agreement?

🌐 A painting that feels remarkably relevant in an era shaped by digital narratives, social consensus and the constant circulation of images.

#RGBWave #ContemporaryArt #OilPainting #VisualCulture #ElinaSanda by @rgbwavemag
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💦 Not every artwork stands still. Some move, splash and completely reshape the space around them.

🔴 The Stravinsky Fountain, created by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle, has animated the square beside the Centre Pompidou in Paris since 1983. Originally sparked by Pierre Boulez, the project brought together sculpture, mechanics and water into one of the city's most iconic public artworks.

🌊 More than a fountain, it's an early example of kinetic art becoming part of everyday urban life—long before movement, interaction and visual circulation became defining features of digital culture.

📍Paris, France.

@centrepompidou

#RGBWave #ContemporaryArt #KineticArt #CentrePompidou #Paris by @rgbwavemag
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✨ A room filled with floating forms, rhythmic lines and visionary color.

🎨 More than 80 years after its debut, the landmark 1938 London retrospective dedicated to Vasily Kandinsky continues to reveal why abstraction remains one of the most influential visual languages in modern culture.

🏛️ Organized by Peggy Guggenheim at Guggenheim Jeune, the exhibition brought British audiences face-to-face with a body of work created during a period marked by exile, transformation and artistic experimentation.

📱 Today, Kandinsky’s compositions feel surprisingly contemporary—echoing the visual systems, interfaces and abstract aesthetics that shape digital culture and the way images move through the world.

💫 Art history. Visual culture. Still connected.

📍 Venice

#VasilyKandinsky #PeggyGuggenheim #AbstractArt #VisualCulture #RGBWave by @rgbwavemag
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🌍✨ A gallery built for the era of global collecting.

Founded by Drew Aaron in Palma de Mallorca, Gallery RED @galleryred_ has become one of Europe’s fastest-growing contemporary art destinations, combining private exhibition spaces, luxury showrooms, and a roster that spans from Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama to a new generation of emerging artists.

🎨 In 2025, the gallery expanded internationally with a new appointment-only space in Paris, extending its influence beyond Spain and reinforcing a growing trend toward exclusive, experience-driven art viewing.

📲 At a time when images circulate faster than ever, Gallery RED represents a model where luxury, curation, and contemporary visual culture converge.

From Mallorca to Paris, the gallery continues to shape how art is collected, experienced, and positioned within a global network of cultural influence.

#RGBWave #ContemporaryArt #ArtCollectors #VisualCulture #GalleryRED by @rgbwavemag
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🌺🎨 More than an artist. More than a symbol.

🖼️ Frida: The Making of an Icon explores how Frida Kahlo evolved from a groundbreaking painter into one of the most recognizable cultural figures in the world.

👗 Featuring more than 30 iconic works, personal garments, jewelry, photographs and over 200 works by artists influenced by her legacy, the exhibition reveals the many identities behind the myth: artist, intellectual, activist and global icon.

🌍 The exhibition also dives into “Fridamania,” examining how Kahlo’s image moved beyond museums and entered fashion, design, merchandise and contemporary visual culture.

📲 In an era defined by image circulation and personal branding, Frida’s story feels more relevant than ever.

📍 Organized by Tate Modern and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

#FridaKahlo #ContemporaryArt #VisualCulture #Exhibition #RGBWave by @rgbwavemag
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✨ Massive scale. No booth limits. Just ideas pushed to their fullest form.

Art Basel Unlimited 2026 returns with 59 ambitious large-scale projects, marking the first edition curated by Ruba Katrib, chief curator and director of curatorial affairs at MoMA PS1.

🏛️ Spread across a 16,000-square-meter hall at Messe Basel, Unlimited transforms the art fair format into a landscape of monumental sculptures, immersive installations, video environments and live performances.

🎥 More than an exhibition sector, Unlimited has become one of the most important spaces for experiencing contemporary art beyond traditional display structures.

🌍 As artists continue to work across architecture, technology, performance and image culture, projects like these reveal how contemporary art increasingly operates at the scale of experience itself.

📍Messe Basel
🗓️ June 18–21, 2026

#ArtBaselUnlimited2026 #ArtBasel #ContemporaryArt #VisualCulture #RGBWave by @rgbwavemag
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Picasso’s most controversial painting is still not settled. 🔴🟢🔵

More than a century after Les Demoiselles d’Avignon shocked the art world, Henry Taylor reopens the debate at @museepicassoparis with From Congo to the Capitol, and black again. 🖼️⚡

Picasso’s 1907 painting helped break open modern art, pushing bodies, space and perspective into a fractured new language. But it also carries unresolved questions about African influence, cultural appropriation, gender and power. 👁️🌍

Taylor’s version keeps the structure of the original, but transforms its figures into Black women — bringing presence, history and agency back into an image shaped by extraction and denial. ✊🏿🎨

Not just a reinterpretation.
A visual argument with modern art history. 🔥

📍 Musée national Picasso-Paris 
🗓️ April 8 — September 6, 2026

@chinatowntaylor @museepicassoparis @themuseumofmodernart

#HenryTaylor #Picasso #LesDemoisellesDAvignon #VisualCulture #RGBWave by @rgbwavemag
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✨ What happens when a museum becomes a city of memories, screens and imagination?

🎈 Dive into "Testimonies to the Near Future", the first solo exhibition in Switzerland by @cao_fei and the artist’s largest European retrospective to date.

🏛️ On view at @kunstmuseumbasel from 30 May to 11 October 2026, the exhibition unfolds across four floors filled with video, installation, photography, sculpture and digital environments — including a giant ball pit that turns play into a space for reflection.

🌐 Known for exploring the intersections of technology, urban life and virtual realities, Cao Fei creates immersive worlds where memory, fiction and contemporary culture collide.

🔴 More than a retrospective, this is a journey through the visual systems shaping how we imagine the future.

📍Basel, Switzerland
🗓️ 30 May–11 October 2026

#RGBWave #CaoFei #ContemporaryArt #DigitalCulture #VisualCulture by @rgbwavemag
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What does it mean to be “profitable” as a human being? 🔴🟢🔵

@modernamuseet opens “Will You Be Profitable, My Friend?” in Stockholm — a major collection exhibition tracing Swedish art from 1945 to 1979 through around 90 works. 🖼️⚙️📚

The show moves through four turbulent decades: postwar optimism, the rise of the welfare state, Cold War anxiety, abstraction, expressive painting and strong political positions. 🇸🇪✨

With artists including Siri Derkert, Öyvind Fahlström, Carl Johan De Geer, Ulla Wiggen, Barbro Östlihn and P O Ultvedt, the exhibition reads Swedish modern art as a visual system shaped by progress, conformity, imagination and critique. 👁️🏛️

Not just a collection show.
A question about society, efficiency and the future of culture. ⚡

📍 Moderna Museet, Stockholm 
🗓️ June 13, 2026 — January 16, 2028

#ModernaMuseet #SwedishArt #ContemporaryArt #VisualCulture #RGBWave by @rgbwavemag
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✨🏙️ A skyline turned into a living kaleidoscope.

🌈 Opening June 11 at Edge NYC in Hudson Yards, this new immersive experience brings together Moment Factory, SOFTlab and Journey in a large-scale installation that transforms one of New York's most iconic observation decks into a sequence of responsive environments.

💡 From 450 interactive light orbs and mirrored kinetic sculptures to oversized crystal formations and NYC's largest kaleidoscope, the project explores how architecture, technology and participation are reshaping contemporary visual culture.

📸 More than an attraction, it's a glimpse into the growing intersection of immersive design, digital aesthetics and the way images move through physical and online spaces.

🗽 New York City. June 11.

@momentfactory @softlab @journeydotworld @edgenyc @hudsonyards

#RGBWave #ImmersiveArt #VisualCulture #DigitalAesthetics #NYCArt by @rgbwavemag
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David Hockney changed the way modern culture looks. 🔴🟢🔵

The British artist died on June 11, 2026, at 88 — leaving behind one of the most recognisable visual languages in contemporary art: swimming pools, portraits, lovers, parents, landscapes, Polaroids, stage designs and iPad drawings. 🖼️💧📱

From Bradford to Los Angeles, Hockney brought the figure back into painting when abstraction dominated the conversation. But his work was never just nostalgic. It was radically alive: queer, graphic, intimate, technological and obsessed with perception. 👁️✨

Long before digital culture became the centre of image-making, Hockney was already experimenting with photocopiers, fax, photography, video and the iPad.

Not just a painter.
A system for looking again. 🌈

@tate @fondationlv @serpentineuk

#DavidHockney #ContemporaryArt #VisualCulture #DigitalArt #RGBWave by @rgbwavemag
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