Miriam Cahn “Ciò che mi guarda” MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome
A visit to Miriam Cahn’s retrospective at MACRO in Rome, an exhibition that brings together more than 130 works across…
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Frida Orupabo “Cloud of Confusion” MAC/CCB – Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura, Lisbon
There seems to be no harmless way of looking at another body. Looking always implies framing and interpreting from a…
Life = Porridge. Tolia Astakhishvili
Out of all the possible details – and there are many – that make up Tolia Astakhishvili’s sprawling borderless oeuvre,…
“After Steps Through Work. Fendi / Karl Lagerfeld 1985” GNAMC – Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
When I walked into the exhibition, after passing through the Pino Pascali room at GNAMC – Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna…
Consider the Sauce Art. In Conversation with Ewa Poniatowska
A few years ago, I stayed in Ewa Poniatowska’s bedroom in Stoke Newington. If London is like a polluted river,…
Shirana Shahbazi, “All at Once. An Interplay with Li Tavor” Kunstmuseum Luzern
In Shirana Shahbazi’s show, “All at Once. An Interplay with Li Tavor” (2026) at the Kunstmuseum Luzern, her 16mm film…
The Persistent Present. Yalda Afsah
The history of cinema is, as Mary Ann Doane meticulously outlines in her book The Emergence of Cinematic Time[1] (2002),…
Michael Sailstorfer “Pull the Rug” Galerie Judin / Berlin
Michael Sailstorfer is no stranger to disruption. For his 2016 installation, Berlin Depression, for instance, the artist repeatedly dropped a…
Familiar Grounds. Mimmo Haraditiohadi
Mimmo Haraditiohadi has a collection of small wooden toy houses, simple block-like forms with hand-drawn windows and doors, their roofs…
Being and Nothingness. In Conversation with Dan Graham
Violaine Boutet de Monvel: Shall we start with your exhibition “Beyond” at MOCA in LA [from February 15 through May…
Territories. Vladislav Markov
It takes at least three people to make a society. Three, then, are also enough to make a secession. The…
Felix Gonzalez-Torres “Sweet Revenge” Museo Reina Sofía/ Madrid
Seamus Heaney begins his “Elegy (For Robert Lowell)” (1977) [1] with an observation that seems pretty self-evident: “The way we’re…
The Object, the Ego, and the Self. Bogdan Ablozhnyy
In Bogdan Ablozhnyy’s The Case of Paranoia (2025), a mannequin’s hand is placed against the wall at waist height. It…
Everything it is it has*. Thea Djordjadze
*A line from Anne Carson’s poem “The Glass Essay,”in which the Canadian poet and essayist moves through the psychologically resonant…
Xochi-Calli: The Architecture of the Inchoate. Carlos H. Matos
Xochi-Calli is a multisensory, immersive work by Mexican architect-sculptor Carlos H. Matos, set within the woodlands of the Lacasapark Art…
Nina Porter “Sample Question” Kunstverein in Hamburg
Little pools of ash, left behind by compressed ash blocks, gather on cardboard surfaces spread across the floor. Surrounded by…