“Bananas are a contemporary mirror”. Maurizio Cattelan in conversation with Virgil Abloh
Maurizio Cattelan: You produce desire for your audience: How do you generate it? What moves desire? Virgil Abloh: In general,…
Sherrie Levine: A Matter of Indiscernibility
“And yet there is a sense in which the painter also creates a bed? Yes, he said, but not a…
Exilic Glamour: Alice Channer
It took Alice Channer a while to go to art school and start her BA. Part of the reason was…
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Ian Law “Drips the room” Piper Keys / London
In She’ll (2013/2020) a room becomes a plinth; it is a replica of the internal dimensions from Ian Law’s bathroom…
On View by Flash Art: Peter Nagy “Entertainment Erases History” Jeffrey Deitch / New York
Jeffrey Deitch, in collaboration with Magenta Plains, presents “Entertainment Erases History”, a historical exhibition of works by Peter Nagy. “Entertainment…
Jakob Lena Knebl Galerie Georg Kargl / Vienna
The plush schemes of Jakob Lena Knebl are fanciful camp depictions, embellished mise-en-scènes of fantasia in the manner of commedia…
Jared Madere “Paths to G-ddess~ Tiny Dick Timmy Ricochet~ Live from the Geomancer’s Clit Ring” Federico Vavassori / Milan
Cats, an unofficial symbol of déjà vu, are the main denizens of the mirror world that Jared Madere has created…
X6 Dance Space (1976–80): Liberation Notes
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. “X6 Dance Space (1976–80): Liberation Notes” at London’s…
From Poetry to Sound Art, through performance: A conversation with Peter Weibel
“Listening In” is a column dedicated to sound, music, and listening practices in contemporary art and its spaces. This section…
Artificial Abstraction and the Poetics of Machine Learning: The Role of AI in the Art of Anna Ridler and Roman Lipski
A new generation of artists are working with machine learning as an integral part of their practice. At a time…
A Resurgence of the Spiritual in Art
Over the last several decades, spiritual themes seem to have been largely missing from contemporary art, replaced by the conceptual,…
Brendan Fernandes: WE AS ONE
Against an expanse of black gallery walls, bright yellow text spells out WE AS ONE. Neon dashes of pink, yellow,…
Arthur Jafa. Face It: The “Affective Proximity” of Imagery
“John Akomfrah […] said something that struck me, because I feel it’s at the core of almost everything that I…
Jordan Wolfson TRUTH / LIE / MEDITATION / SUBCONSCIOUS
There are parts of our minds in which truth and falsehood are the same. Sometimes they merge and become another…
After the Master: The Copy as Origin and Renewal
Go to any major museum to see ancient Greek statuary and you’ll find wall labels that read “Roman copy.” It’s…
WELCOME TO SUNNYDALE Mining the American suburban fantasy through a widely varied output, Olivia Erlanger expands the limits of sculptural thinking
Olivia Erlanger politely asks me to hold the call while she scrolls diligently through her screen cap folder. The lengthy…
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On View
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Nicolas Trembley / Director of the Syz Collection, Switzerland
Elsy Lahner / Curator, Albertina Museum, Vienna
Simon Castets / Director of the Swiss Institute, New York
Heike Munder / Director of Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Chus Martinez / Head of the Institut FHNW, Basel and expedition leader of The Current, TBA21–Academy
Roselee Golberg / Curator of PERFORMA, New York
Antonia Alampi / Artistic co-Director of SAVVY Contemporary and co-Curator Sonsbeek 2010-2024
Alex Gartenfeld / Artistic Director at the ICA Miami
Marrakech: A New Gateway to Africa / 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Marrakech
There’s nothing quite like the kiss of a pristine sunny afternoon in Marrakech. Long known as one of Morocco’s hippest…
“I Love You, Urgently” 21,39 Jeddah Arts / 7th Edition”
As world leaders gather to address the deteriorating state of the earth and what to do next, artists are similarly…
Decolonising Representation: Geneva roundup / February 2020
“Leave my body (planet) or die in it.” This warning, echoing in the rooms of Cherish — a new project…
Oslo Biennial 2019
The Venice Biennale opened in the same week as the first edition of the OsloBiennalen. But while the former will…
Is Iris van Herpen the Oskar Schlemmer of the 21st Century?
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. One year ago, I was an intern at…
Reviving Pina Bausch’s Bluebeard: A Choreographic Analysis of Interhuman Relationships
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. “Dance, dance, or else we are lost.” So…
Reimagining Weimar Dance: An Interview with Alison Curtis Jones
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Thinker. Artist. Innovator. These are just three words…
Moving in the In-Between: Tarik Kiswanson
Dance Office is a column dedicated to contemporary dance and performance art. Arriving in Sweden in the 1980s, having fled Palestine…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Conversation
“I’m nothing, I’m no one, I’m everyone, I’m dead!” Aria Dean
Crises of language dominated the last years of both theoretical and artistic research of Aria Dean (b. Los Angeles, 1993).…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Features
Negative Space, Objects in the Absence of Performance
As art institutions adopt performance-based practices, artists, curators, and archivists are faced with new considerations about how to classify and…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Features
The (In)Animate World of Rebecca Horn
Between 1968 and 1972, German artist Rebecca Horn created a series of performances titled “Personal Art.” Not unlike Joseph Beuys,…
328 November 2019 – January 2020
COVER → Rebecca Horn, Paradise Widow, 1975. Photography by Rebecca Horn. © 2019 Rebecca Horn by SIAE 2019. ON VIEW →…
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INTERVIEWS
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Patrick Staff Discusses “On Venus” at the Serpentine Galleries / London
Cross-Species Communication and Bio-Sensing Art of the 1970s and 80s: A Conversation with Richard Lowenberg
Anastasia Mityukova’s Project Iceworm
To Follow or To Fall. A conversation with Otobong Nkanga
On Failure, Decay, and New Forms of Responsibility. A Conversation with Ibrahim Mahama
SCCA – The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale (Ghana). An Interview with Bernard Akoi-Jackson
Laurent Grasso Galerie Perrotin / Paris
Cole Lu: Animal Fancy
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Features
Jimmy Robert: Reworking Performativity
The work of Berlin-based artist Jimmy Robert (b. Guadeloupe (FR) 1975) is situated in the interstices between the art object,…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Features
Image, performance, protest
Over the past decade, much has been written about the rise of performance in contemporary art’s institutions, with gargantuan architectures…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Features
Apertures of Queer Prophecy. Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Such Feeling
At the center of Alex Baczyński-Jenkins’s Until a thousand roses bloom (with Warsaw in the background) (2018) are two plots…
#328 Nov 2019–Jan 2020, Conversation
Fantasies and Dissonance: A Conversation with Anne Bean
Since the late 1960s, British artist Anne Bean has been singularly dedicated to performance and relational art that exists in…
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REVIEWS
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Ian Law “Drips the room” Piper Keys / London
Sean Steadman “1,000,000,000,000” Project Native Informant / London
Jakob Lena Knebl Galerie Georg Kargl / Vienna
Jared Madere “Paths to G-ddess~ Tiny Dick Timmy Ricochet~ Live from the Geomancer’s Clit Ring” Federico Vavassori / Milan
Prem Sahib “DESCENT: DESCENT III. MAN DOG,” Southard Reid / London
Salvo Gladstone 64 / New York
Postcommodity “Some Reach While Others Clap” LAXART / Los Angeles
France-Lise McGurn “Percussia” Simon Lee Gallery / London
298 October 2014
NEWS → ◯ São Paulo 31st São Paulo Bienal ◯ Taipei “The Great acceleration”, Taipei Biennial ◯ Paris FIAC and (OFF)ICIELLE 2014 ◯ Los Angeles David Kordansky new headquarters ◯ Opening Times –…
297 July – August – September 2014
NEWS → ◯ Hong Kong Lars Nittve, M+ ◯ New Orleans Franklin Sirmans, Prospect.3 ◯ Paul Chan: Selected Writings 2000–2014 ◯ Tel Aviv’s art scene ◯ New York Eli Ping Frances Perkins ◯ London/Stockholm Carl Kostyál ◯ Biel/Bienne Swiss…
295 March – April 2014
NEWS → ◯ New York Independent Art Fair ◯ Fragile Flowers – Les Presses du Réel ◯ New Delhi Barometer Subodh Gupta ◯ Düsseldorf Off Vendome ◯ Los Angeles Philippe Vergne ◯ London/San Francisco Infinite City ◯ Philadelphia Free…
293 November – December 2013
NEWS → ◯ Pittsburgh 2013 Carnegie International ◯ Yogjakarta Equator #2: Biennale Jogja XII ◯ Norway Monday Begins on Saturday: 1st Bergen Assembly ◯ Sydney You Imagine What You Desire: 19th Biennale…