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…
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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…
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…
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…
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 —…