Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom” / Nottingham Contemporary
On Monday, October 13, 2025, just a few days after I visited Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s multimedia installation Prisoners…
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Eleanor Antin, “A Retrospective” Mudam, Luxembourg
Eleanor Antin’s Blood of a Poet Box (1965–68) assembles, quite literally, the blood of a hundred poets: samples on glass…
Gala Porras-Kim “Recollection Returns with a Soft Touch” Museum of Civilizations, Rome
Recalling, remembering, collecting, and dealing with questions of cataloging, preservation, expertise, musealization, and public presentation with a gaze and a…
Lygia Clark “Retrospective” Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Mies van der Rohe’s idea for the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin was based on an earlier project for which he…
Peter Fischli “People Planet Profit” LUMA Arles
“People Planet Profit” brings together several groups of works from the past decade, which Peter Fischli has combined into a…
“Magic Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order" WIELS, Brussels
“Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order” — which reconsiders our relationship to the planet at a time of climate emergency —…
“akâmi” Camden Art Centre, London
How do objects speak when language falls short? What does it mean to cross — not just borders, but generations,…
Wolfgang Tillmans “Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us” Centre Pompidou, Paris
This September, Centre Pompidou will close for five years, beginning an extensive renovation process that includes asbestos removal and essential…
Louise Bonnet and Elizabeth King “De Anima" / Swiss Institute, New York
Are we the body, or are we the soul? This age-old philosophical dilemma is at the heart of a striking…
"Folding the Sea into Dresses that Dissolve Like Salt” Perasma / Leros Island
Just off the coastline of Asia Minor, the Greek island of Leros is a palimpsest of colonial history, layered with…
Chan Hau Chun “Map of Traces” Empty Gallery / Hong Kong
Located far from the city center, on the south side of Hong Kong Island, Empty Gallery is tucked into the…
Roni Horn Galleria Raffaella Cortese / Milan
Spread across three venues, Roni Horn’s exhibition at Raffaella Cortese in Milan celebrates the gallery’s thirtieth anniversary and its long-standing…
“Painting After Painting” S.M.A.K. / Ghent
A recurring refrain in recent decades is that painting is dead. And yet, it continues —sometimes loudly, sometimes zombified. “Painting…
Klára Hosnedlová “embrace” Hamburger Bahnhof / Berlin
Klára Hosnedlová’s “embrace,” which inaugurates three years’ worth of Chanel-sponsored programming in the Hamburger Bahnhof’s main hall, foxes formal categorizing…
“The Gatherers” MoMA PS1 / New York
What are the stakes of insisting upon political hope, in all its felt potential for redeeming past injustices, when progressivism…
“Corps et âmes” Bourse de Commerce / Paris
In Kerry James Marshall’s seminal 1986 work The Wonderful One, the figure is an ineffable silhouette: its dimensionality is reduced…