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.…
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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…
A Mirror, Darkly. In Conversation with Michaël Borremans
Seeing a painter’s studio always feels intimate. It’s impossible to keep your eyes from darting around. Soaking up the surround. Trying to piece…
Slowly, Then All at Once. Sarah Brahim
I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. — Virginia Woolf, The Waves[1] Last Christmas,…
Taking Flight. Lotus L. Kang
“A trembling dissolution filled the birds — The substance of their being was undone, And they were lost like shade…
Singing, Dancing, and Building with Kappa
Anarchitecture The term “anarchitecture” has been used independently by several figures,[1] but here, I adopt it in my own way.…
In the Waste of Others. Florentina Holzinger
It’s the first official pre-opening day of the 61st Venice Biennale and we, a group of eager art tourists, are…
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,…