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…
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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…
Can’t Get You Out of My Head. In Conversation with Thomas Ruff
Thomas Ruff is already on holiday on an island off Italy’s coast when I interview him. When he picks up…
Symbol of Service
“Anyone can make a case for the outside.” [1] An entry in fourteen small windows, flanked by two glass revolving…
“Call Me Gravity” WIELS / Brussels
I’m afraid to admit the exact amount of debt I’m in. Walking into the exhibition “Call me gravity” at WIELS in Brussels, I half-expected to find myself…
Augustas Serapinas “Physical Culture” Nottingham Contemporary/ Nottingham
Euphoric, machinic Italo disco pulses through Nottingham Contemporary’s galleries, audible from the street, where passersby press against the wall- length glass…
Dead Matter & Nervous Flesh. Henri McMaster
Henri McMaster spent her childhood in Canada, where she began building things out of feathers, sticks, and snow from an…
Balancing Surrogates. In Conversation with Ivan Cheng
When Ivan Cheng and I first spoke over lunch in Venice this spring, our conversation disappeared almost immediately into a…
The Sound of Broken Eggshells. Luzie Meyer
In June 2025, I enter the former canteen of the Sophiensæle in Berlin and hear sounds moving through the room.…