Archives as Footnotes. Ian Waelder
I first encountered Ian Waelder’s work at Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover, in “thereafter” (2025). What struck me was how insistently…
Mercurial New York. In Conversation with Rose Salane
Rose Salane’s newly commissioned film Mercurial New York (2026), debuting at the 61st Venice Biennale, “In Minor Keys,” curated by…
Sanya Kantarovsky “Basic Failure” Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti/ Venice
The press communication for Sanya Kantarovsky’s show “Basic Failure” led with his painting Boy with Cigarette (2026), in which a hollow-eyed boy…
Tracey Emin “A Second Life” Tate Modern/ London
You have not yet fully entered when the word “slag” finds you. The gallery is still opening itself, the walls…
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Shell Game. In Conversation with Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans is smoking a cigarette outside of his studio when I arrive. It’s October 12, 2025 – a Sunday – in Antwerp, and…
ORDINARY MIRACLES. A Conversation with Rene Matić
One of the earliest works by Rene Matić is a video that documents their back torso being inscribed with the…
Hysteric Literature. A Conversation with Olivia Kan-Sperling
The questions of literary modernism have always been deeply entwined with those of psychoanalysis: both are concerned with the dissolution…
On Language and Kitsch. Tasneem Sarkez
It feels appropriate to approach Tasneem Sarkez’s work through the seed of language. The word, as a manifold concept, laces…
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These Ghosts. Clémentine Bruno
There is, at the heart of Clémentine Bruno’s practice, a question that refuses simplicity: How does one make space for presence…
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Afterglow. Siyi Li
Artist Siyi Li prefers to go by only his first name in this text. “Like a pop star,” he muses.…
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Eros is a verb. Coco Klockner
In the myth of Eros, the god of love and desire emerged from Chaos in the beginning of life itself…
351 SUMMER 2025, Unpack / Reveal / Unleash
The Conditions that Shape. Sophie Friedman-Pappas
On the Greek island of Tinos, centuries-old dovecotes — white stone towers originally used to harvest pigeon droppings as fertilizer…
The Architecture of Entrapment. In Conversation with Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 188, May–June 1995. Diller + Scofidio is a New York-based collaborative studio involved in cross-disciplinary work…
The Tint of Los Alamos
When you tell a local in New Mexico that you are headed to Los Alamos, they will remind you not…
The Sun Sets on Taix
As I write this, I’m in New York. But I’m homesick, so I’m driving down Sunset Boulevard through Ed Ruscha’s 12 Sunsets (1965–2007). Accessible via the Getty’s website,…
A Refusal to Explain. In Conversation Anne Holtrop
Transparency is supposed to be a virtue — in politics, in institutions, in architecture. Glass buildings promise openness; democratic language…
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Mercurial New York. In Conversation with Rose Salane
Sanya Kantarovsky “Basic Failure” Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti/ Venice
Tracey Emin “A Second Life” Tate Modern/ London
Archives as Footnotes. Ian Waelder
Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art/ New York
Berlin: After the Myth
A Mirror, Darkly. In Conversation with Michaël Borremans
Slowly, Then All at Once. Sarah Brahim