Ndayé Kouagou Fondation Louis Vuitton / Paris
“Maybe you are extraordinary, and if you are, leave my temple, it’s a space for average people.” A line from…
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Marc Camille Chaimowicz “Nuit Américaine” WIELS / Brussels
“Nuit Américaine,” Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s solo exhibition at WIELS, spans more than five decades, grouping the iconic Celebration? Realife Revisited…
“Chryssa & New York” Dia Chelsea / New York
“Chryssa & New York,” currently on view at Dia Chelsea, marks a homecoming that is both institutional and personal. Although…
Barbara T. Smith “The Way to Be” Getty Center / Los Angeles
In a small vestibule painted library green (Benjamin Moore 699), personal artifacts from Barbara T. Smith’s archive, acquired by the…
“Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream” Centre d’Art Contemporain / Genève
The risk of partial reception or the flattening of content in thematic, muscular exhibitions like the one presented by the…
Roberto Cuoghi Fridericianum / Kassel
The first thing visitors hear upon entering the foyer of Fridericianum is a swelling, deeply unsettling noise. Cascade-like, akin to…
June Crespo “They Saw their House Turn Into Fields” Museo CA2M / Madrid
Metal artifacts are arranged neatly against the walls: the spectator is surrounded. From this description, you’d be forgiven for thinking…
LuYang “Vibratory Field” Kunsthalle Basel
“What am I? Which part of this body is me?” asks an animated figure in The Great Adventure of Material…
Carolyn Lazard “Long Take” Nottingham Contemporary
How do we experience an artwork? For most readers, and for me, our eyes receive and process it, often in…
Alfatih “Day in the Life” Swiss Institute / New York
In Alfatih’s exhibition “Day in the Life” at the Swiss Institute, the viewer becomes a new kind of observer: one…
Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope.L “Impossible Failures” 52 Walker / New York
The concept of impossibility changes over time, reflecting larger shifts in consciousness and zeitgeist. What is probable becomes common and…
Anne Imhof “YOUTH” Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam
My generation confronts the anxiety of death in a new and peremptory way. I was reflecting on this as I…
cameron clayborn “nothing left to be” Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Berlin
US artist cameron clayborn (b. 1992) made the sculptures homegrown #1 and #2 in 2021, and yet the wafer-thin structures…
“New York: 1962–1964” Jewish Museum / New York
“New York: 1962–1964,” on view at the Jewish Museum, New York, is the last exhibition conceived by Germano Celant before…
Renée Green “Inevitable Distances” Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Zurich
Each Renée Green work is an exhibition in itself. Multipart in form, often originally site-specific, Green’s works are precise webs…
Carolee Schneemann “Body Politics” Barbican Centre / London
“Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics,” on view at the Barbican Centre, begins with paintings. The opening text reads: “I’m a painter.…