Klára Hosnedlová “embrace” Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Klára Hosnedlová’s “embrace,” which inaugurates three years’ worth of Chanel-sponsored programming in the Hamburger Bahnhof’s main hall, foxes formal categorizing…
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In Medias Res. Sofia Defino Leiby
I first met Sofia Defino Leiby pre-pandemic, on a bus as part of a crowd, and she mentioned that she…
“The Gatherers” MoMA PS1, New York
What are the stakes of insisting upon political hope, in all its felt potential for redeeming past injustices, when progressivism…
Compose Yourself. Alexandra Metcalf
Upon first encounter, the work of British-American artist Alexandra Metcalf captivates with its unapologetic femininity. Her paintings have a distinctly…
Repairing Shinjuku
We held a solo exhibition titled “TEIRE / Repair” (2021) at Whitehouse in Shinjuku. The exhibition centered on repairing the…
Performing the Grotesque: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Artists and the Aesthetics of Bodily Excess
“I am not tragic. I am not beautiful. I am not a symbol. I am simply too much — too…
“Corps et âmes” Bourse de Commerce / Paris
In Kerry James Marshall’s seminal 1986 work The Wonderful One, the figure is an ineffable silhouette: its dimensionality is reduced…
The Conditions that Shape. Sophie Friedman-Pappas
On the Greek island of Tinos, centuries-old dovecotes — white stone towers originally used to harvest pigeon droppings as fertilizer…
ANY: Silvery-Grayish Boxes
If cathode ray blue was the color of the “digital,” and millennial pink that of the “post-digital,” with perhaps a…
“HEAD FOR THE HILLS!” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Hammer Museum group exhibition “HEAD FOR THE HILLS!” takes its title from John Knight’s 1974 untitled slide projection piece.…
Never Let Go. Sidsel Meineche Hansen
Immersed in a perpetual hypnagogic state, Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s Grumpy (2025) is an eviscerated yet undead killjoy – an agential…
Forms’ Fall from Utopia
We live in the shadows of forms. Ideas, perfection of realities made through abstraction. Extracting something’s essence through philosophical clinical…
The Device of Eternal Motion. A Conversation with Karla Kaplun
Mexican artist Karla Kaplun makes work around the construction and functioning of collective memory, and how that unfolds in dynamics…
“STEADYSTATE” Zero…, Milan
Time, in “STEADYSTATE,” doesn’t tick — it lingers, loops, and evaporates. The group exhibition at Zero… in Milan, co-curated with…
Zurich: Peripheral Presence.
Moving through Zurich — whether on foot, by bicycle, tram, or car — rarely involves a direct or uninterrupted trajectory.…
TOWARDS A CYBERSPACIAL URBAN TERRAIN. A Conversation with Rem Koolhaas
Francesco Bonami: Do you still think that Manhattan is the center of the culture of congestion? Rem Koolhaas: It is…