Valérie Favre's first solo exhibition at Peter Kilchmann presented an opportunity to view the artist's recently completed "Selbstmord" (Suicide) series.

"Cinematic Scope" gathers six artists in their 30s and 40s from Germany, Austria and ex-Yugoslavia whose practices are "expanding" media in the 21st century.

In BQ's front window, the title of Dirk Bell's exhibition, "Schön und Gut" (Beautiful and Good), was spelled out in the panels of a shelf structure.

It is common in writing on Lahore-based Ali Kazim to begin with his technique. "Starting with a pencil under-drawing," writes London-based critic and curator Hammad Nasar in a pamphlet from 2006, "he follows on with a step miniaturists refer to as siyah qalam (or literally black pen); going over the pencil marks with a fine brush dipped in black ink."

In 1993, Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd president of the United States, the World Wide Web was less than two years old and the U.S. economy, including the art market, was still suffering the effects of the stock market crash of 1987.