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…
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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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Whitney Biennial 2026, Whitney Museum of American Art/ New York
Living in the United States in the spring of 2026 is akin to living in the center of a hurricane…
Berlin: After the Myth
On a balmy evening in late April, after Lina Lapelytė’s performers had finished performing, Sam Bardaouil said Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof…
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…