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…
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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,…
"to ignite our skin" / SculptureCenter, New York
Much recent critical theory has been concerned with the following proposition: that although the triumph of reason claims to have…
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…
Lutz Bacher, “Burning the Days “ / Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
How do you put a finger on Lutz Bacher? Contemplating this, I walked toward Astrup Fearnley through a pocket of…