Halil Altindere

We select the shows the art world will be watching this week, including a hotly-anticipated Basquiat solo in London and a focus on refugees in Amsterdam

Muhammed Ahmed Faris is the only Syrian who has traveled to outer space. A colonel in the Syrian Air Force, Faris—the subject of Turkish artist Halil Altindere’s video Space Refugee (2016)—joined the Soviet cosmonaut program in 1985 and was part of a mission to the Mir Space Station in 1987. “Those seven days 23 hours and five minutes changed my life,” Faris told The Guardian.(1) He saw this experience as a privilege that he could share with other Syrians through education in science and astronomy, but that was not on the agenda of President Hafez al-Assad, who controlled Syria following a coup in 1970.

Muhammed Ahmed Faris is the only Syrian who has traveled to outer space.

In 1987, a Syrian air-force pilot, Muhammed Ahmed Faris, became his country’s first astronaut — and a national hero — when he spent seven days in orbi

A focused and updated version of EXPO 1: New York—the large-scale exploration of ecological challenges in the early 21st century that was on view from

MoMA PS1 presents Zero Tolerance, an exhibition that chronicles the vital legacy of artists from across the globe who address tensions between freedom and control. Zero Tolerance is on view in the First Floor Main galleries at MoMA PS1 from October 26, 2014 through March 08, 2015 and brings together over twenty works by twenty artists.

This year’s edition aims to prompt discussions about the social and economic problems facing Brazil

The 31st Bienal de São Paulo "Things that don’t exist” is a poetic invocation of art’s ability to create new objects, thoughts and possibilities. The sentence has a variable formula that constantly changes, anticipating the actions that might make present in contemporary life the things that don’t exist, are not recognized, or have not yet been invented. With 81 projects and more than 100 participants from 34 countries, totaling around 250 artworks on display, the exhibition has been conceived as journey through the Pavilion divided into three different areas: park area, ramp area and columns area.

A focused and updated version of EXPO 1: New York—the large-scale exploration of ecological challenges in the early 21st century that was on view from

Curated by Emre Baykal, ARTER's "Second Exhibition" includes more than 30 new works by 20 artists: Halil Altindere, Burak Arikan, Volkan Aslan, Vahap Avsar, Banu Cennetoglu – Yasemin Ozcan Kaya, Ayse Erkmen,

Through January 6, 2013, Paris’s Louis Vuitton Foundation offers a tour through the complex and often polarized terrain of today's Turkish art

The international art map of 2010 is about to be redrawn; move over India, Russia and China – this year, the art world is shifting its gaze to Turkey.

A crackdown on anti-government protests forced the art show to abandon its more edgy ideas. But the spirit of Taksim Square is not entirely absent