Zurich, February 2021
It is 3:17 am as I start writing this column. I went to bed early, maybe a little after 10…
334 Spring 2021
Music as a True Statement, Sound as a Definition of Space: Carl Craig
“Carl Craig: Party/After-Party” (2020) is an ambitious multisensory installation by legendary Detroit-based musician, DJ, and producer Carl Craig, commissioned by…
Remarks on installations and changes in time dimensions
Originally published in Flash Art no. 162 January/February 1992. The farsightedness with which Weil analyzes the then-nascent 1990s is indicative…
Julie Mehretu: On Black Abstraction, Futurity and Opacity as a Space of Liberation
Just days before the US election, as Americans were grappling with the fallout of a global pandemic, a summer of…
Anne Imhof in Three Acts, an Improvisation: Hunter, Writer, Lover
I. Hunter Although it has been about twenty-five years since I played video games with any frequency, lately I have…
Telfar: Not for You, for Everyone. A conversation with Babak Radboy
Andrea Bellini: Let’s start with trash, which is very often synonymous with history. Following the assault by Donald Trump supporters…
Prediction in the Era of Digital Stupidity: Hito Steyerl
The most popular song of 2019/2020, “Dance Monkey,” is about mimicry, repetition, loops, and uncontrolled movement: Move for me, move…
Xinyi Cheng “The Horse with Eye Blinders” Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart / Berlin
The view from my bedroom window looks out onto a courtyard framed by a towering window-less wall. Some mornings, when…
Martha Joseph / Associate Curator at MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Episode V: Le Salon Turc
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam recently acquired Ulay’s pivotal work Irritation – There Is a Criminal Touch to Art (1976),…
Helen Marten: Whispered Circuitry, Drunken Quality
Approximation “It is said that our eyeballs record the last thing we see before we die. That there is a…
Pedro Cabrita Reis and Cerith Wyn Evans Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
When the relevance of art for the functioning of society is under scrutiny, every show that can actually open is…
Lydia Ourahmane “Barzakh” Kunsthalle Basel
The correlation between one’s home situation and one’s life has been a tireless truism of this past year — and…
Lemaniana. Reflections on other scenes. A survey of current artistic production in the Léman Region
As part of our ongoing investigation of contemporary practices, the following pages discuss on the new project “Lemaniana,” opening at…
Promising Young Woman: A Dialogue
“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” — Margaret Atwood…
The Age of Love: Notes toward a Nonbinary World
I remember a team meeting at MACBA — it must have been around 2010 — in which the question of…