Guillaume Désanges / Curator of La Verrière, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès’ exhibition space, Brussels
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Magazine Articles
“Grief and Grievance” New Museum / New York
“Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” was conceived by the late Nigerian-born curator Okwui Enwezor in 2018, and…
Zurich, February 2021
It is 3:17 am as I start writing this column. I went to bed early, maybe a little after 10…
Alain Jacquet “Jeux de Jacquet” Galerie Perrotin / Paris
Perrotin Gallery’s Alain Jacquet (1939–2008) retrospective is a pop-colored historical overview clustered tightly around some sixty two-dimensional works. The exhibition…
Music as a True Statement, Sound as a Definition of Space: Carl Craig
“Carl Craig: Party/After-Party” (2020) is an ambitious multisensory installation by legendary Detroit-based musician, DJ, and producer Carl Craig, commissioned by…
Remarks on installations and changes in time dimensions
Originally published in Flash Art no. 162 January/February 1992. The farsightedness with which Weil analyzes the then-nascent 1990s is indicative…
Julie Mehretu: On Black Abstraction, Futurity and Opacity as a Space of Liberation
Just days before the US election, as Americans were grappling with the fallout of a global pandemic, a summer of…
Anne Imhof in Three Acts, an Improvisation: Hunter, Writer, Lover
I. Hunter Although it has been about twenty-five years since I played video games with any frequency, lately I have…
Telfar: Not for You, for Everyone. A conversation with Babak Radboy
Andrea Bellini: Let’s start with trash, which is very often synonymous with history. Following the assault by Donald Trump supporters…
Prediction in the Era of Digital Stupidity: Hito Steyerl
The most popular song of 2019/2020, “Dance Monkey,” is about mimicry, repetition, loops, and uncontrolled movement: Move for me, move…
Xinyi Cheng “The Horse with Eye Blinders” Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart / Berlin
The view from my bedroom window looks out onto a courtyard framed by a towering window-less wall. Some mornings, when…
Martha Joseph / Associate Curator at MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…
Episode V: Le Salon Turc
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam recently acquired Ulay’s pivotal work Irritation – There Is a Criminal Touch to Art (1976),…
Helen Marten: Whispered Circuitry, Drunken Quality
Approximation “It is said that our eyeballs record the last thing we see before we die. That there is a…
Pedro Cabrita Reis and Cerith Wyn Evans Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
When the relevance of art for the functioning of society is under scrutiny, every show that can actually open is…
Lovecraft Country: Misha Green’s Historical Melodrama
The tropes of the horror genre — dread, terror, violence, trauma, monsters, and evil forces — constitute nightmarish plots specific…