“Call Me Gravity” WIELS / Brussels
I’m afraid to admit the exact amount of debt I’m in. Walking into the exhibition “Call me gravity” at WIELS in Brussels, I half-expected to find myself…
REVIEWS
Augustas Serapinas “Physical Culture” Nottingham Contemporary/ Nottingham
Euphoric, machinic Italo disco pulses through Nottingham Contemporary’s galleries, audible from the street, where passersby press against the wall- length glass…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…