“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.…
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These Ghosts. Clémentine Bruno
There is, at the heart of Clémentine Bruno’s practice, a question that refuses simplicity: How does one make space for presence…
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…
What Did Happen or What Might Have Happened or What Can Never Happen. Dustin Hodges
In the HBO series The Leftovers (2014–17), two percent of the world’s population vanishes without warning or explanation. The event,…
Nat Faulkner “Strong water” Camden Art Centre / London
The peppered moth was once almost entirely pale, flecked with minute dark spots that camouflaged it against lichen tree bark and stone.…
Tetherings. A Conversation with Mary Stephenson
During our conversation, Mary Stephenson used the phrase “ghost mark” to describe the inerasable traces left by previous marks on her painted…
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…
No Romance. Gili Tal
Throughout my conversation with Gili Tal, freshly landed back in London after opening her solo exhibition “Soft and Bouncy” (2026)…
“SIDE CORE: Living road, Living space” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art / Kanazawa
It takes more than nine hours to drive from Tokyo to the Noto Peninsula by car. This remote stretch of…
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…
The Plateau of Chaos
Yaxuan Liao’s work borrows the aesthetic regime of information to construct an electric dreamscape. In his recent work, Entropy Atlas (2026), the…
ORDINARY MIRACLES. A Conversation with Rene Matić
One of the earliest works by Rene Matić is a video that documents their back torso being inscribed with the…
Tongue River Theory. davi de jesus do nascimento
davi makes me believe I no longer know how to write. When I read his recent writings[1] and talked to…
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,…