Brook Hsu “The Barcelona Pavilion” Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler/ Berlin
Brook Hsu’s “The Barcelona Pavilion” at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler begins with a paradox: a building conceived as an emblem of permanence that…
REVIEWS
“Body Fragment” The Power Station/ Dallas
On the radio recently, I heard news of an Israeli bombing of an apartment building in Beirut that killed everyone…
“In Minor Keys” 61st Venice Biennale
Merde. This is the first thought that takes shape in my head once I’ve acclimatized to the mammoth undertaking that I’ve just agreed to. Koyo…
Franco Mazzucchelli, Champ Lacombe / Biarritz
On April 25 we commemorated Italy’s liberation from more than twenty years of fascism and, on May 1, the struggles…
Hito Steyerl “The Island” Osservatorio Fondazione Prada / Milan
When you go underwater, space takes on a different density: light is absorbed and refracted, vision becomes blurred, objects appear…
“Conspiracies” Aby Warburg Institute / London
“Conspiracies,” curated by Larne Abse Gogarty (author of What We Do Is Secret: Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy (2023), approaches conspiracy…
“Iter Subterraneum” / Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
We have heard the story before: a person descends through a hole in the earth and enters a hidden world.…
Glenn Ligon “late at night, early in the morning, at noon” / Hauser & Wirth, New York
One enters the sequence of galleries at Hauser & Wirth on 18th Street, New York, with an initial expectation of an intellectually…
Walter Pichler, “Die Bleche und ich gehen heim” Contemporary Fine Arts / Basel
What’s most striking about “Die Bleche und ich gehen heim” at Contemporary Fine Arts in Basel is how the show handles motion and stillness. This solo…
Trisha Donnelly, MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst / Frankfurt am Main
Writing about Trisha Donnelly’s work feels like a betrayal — or, at the very least, a contradiction in terms. Her…
Alison Nguyen “Perforation, Ellipse” Storefront for Art and Architecture / New York
In 1985, Marxist scholar Silvia Federici wrote a poem dedicated to what she called “the conspiracy theory of history,” rejecting…
Giangiacomo Rossetti “Résurrectine” Mendes Wood DM / Paris
In Giangiacomo Rossetti’s latest exhibition, “Résurrectine” at Mendes Wood DM, Paris, a mysterious yellow glows. Vivid and sickly, the color…
Tobias Pils “Shh” mumok / Vienna
Tobias Pils’s ambitious exhibition “Shh” at mumok, Vienna, spans three spaces and looks back at a decade of his practice,…
Curating the Invisible: Fang Liu (Summer)’s Curatorial Practice
Based in London, trained across the creative industries and art, Fang Liu (Summer) presents a curatorial practice that refuses the…
Cyprien Gaillard, “Wassermusik” / Haus der Kunst, Munich
Cyprien Gaillard is no studio artist. He wanders and finds things. In Munich, he explored the Haus der Kunst, sometimes…
Gerhard Richter / Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
In 2017, Gerhard Richter fulfilled his collectors’ deepest, darkest dream: he announced he was done with painting. That same year,…