“Still Present!” 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Kader Attia, the artist who co-directed this year’s edition of the Berlin Biennale, has placed repair as a strategy at…
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Liz Larner "below above" Kunsthalle Zurich
On a clear moonless night, looking out from the shore, the horizon might disappear and the two great physical voids…
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster “Alienarium 5” Serpentine South Gallery / London
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster wants to know: “What if aliens were in love with us?” Influenced by her research into extraterrestrial life,…
Wolfgang Tillmans “Sound is Liquid” mumok / Vienna
Last November Wolfgang Tillmans released his first studio album, Moon in Earthlight, a fifty-three-minute-long soundscape that weaves together pop elements,…
Wolfgang Tillmans “Sound is Liquid” mumok / Vienna
Last November Wolfgang Tillmans released his first studio album, Moon in Earthlight, a fifty-three-minute-long soundscape that weaves together pop elements,…
Heidi Bucher "Metamorphoses I" Kunsthalle Bern
When the word skin is verbalized — to skin — the associations with this outer layer of the body start…
Barbara Kruger “THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU.” LACMA / Los Angeles
One is a critic because one has never felt affirmed (Barbara Kruger never speaks in the third person). There is…
“Quiet as It’s Kept” Whitney Biennial 2022 Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
The eightieth iteration of the Whitney Biennial is subtitled “Quiet as It’s Kept,” an expression curator Adrienne Edwards remembers her…
Beyond the Limits of Empirical Knowledge: Marguerite Humeau's New Way of Thinking and Making
Some might consider Marguerite Humeau’s artistic trajectory unconventional. Coming to art via design, she first studied textile design in France,…
Baseera Khan "I Am an Archive" Brooklyn Museum / New York
The advent and proliferation of technologies that encourage practices of accumulating and storing information has precipitated a contemporary preoccupation with…
Charles Ray Centre Pompidou and Pinault Collection – Bourse de Commerce / Paris
Plank Piece I and II (1973), a black-and-white photographic diptych showing the young Charles Ray’s body pinned against the wall…
Jackie Winsor MAMCO / Genève
When Michael Fried published his notorious essay “Art and Objecthood” (1967), he likely did not expect “theatricality” to become such…
Zoe Leonard “Al río / To the River” MUDAM / Luxembourg
I usually say that an exhibition is not a book on the walls. For once, I was wrong. Zoe Leonard’s…
Caroline Kent “Chicago Works” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Caroline Kent’s installation at the MCA Chicago comprises two dimly lit spaces dressed to evoke studies: one space includes an…
"The Real Show" CAC Brétigny
People want to see images that reflect their reality, but media distortions and the pace of digital technology have warped…
Steven Parrino Gagosian / Basel
For all the mythology that dogs the legacy of Steven Parrino, two decades after his death at the age of…