The Anticipatory Role of Germano Celant
Statements about Germano Celant’s contribution to conceptual art usually limit themselves to invoking his invention of the notion of arte…
Magazine Articles
Robert Morris "The Perceiving Body" MAMC+ / Saint-Étienne Métropole
Robert Morris’s art is rooted in the corporeal: not only in its means of production — involving materials of heavy…
Liliane Lijn: Reinventing the Archetype
Shall we begin at the beginning? Or, to be more precise, The Beginning (1959)? One of the earliest recorded works…
Rose Wylie "where i am and was" Aspen Art Museum / Colorado
The story of British artist Rose Wylie’s career has become something close to lore for its unusual trajectory: despite having…
Desiring Machines: The Exhibition as Automaton in Philippe Parreno’s Work
Every night during the summer of 1993, artificial fireflies automatically lit up the garden at the Villa Arson, Nice. But…
The Kitchen’s new residency programs: Autumn Knight and Baseera Khan
As part of an ongoing effort to probe contemporary curatorial practices, Flash Art reached out to one of New York…
Olivier Mosset MAMCO / Genève
As one of the central figures of postwar abstract painting, Olivier Mosset is usually linked with Clement Greenberg’s precepts of…
“For A Dreamer of Houses” Dallas Museum of Art / Colorado
Raymond Carver’s 1981 short story “Why Don’t You Dance?” centers on an anonymous grief-stricken and alcohol-soaked man who, in mourning…
Episode II: Index of Household Consumption1
“She jumps from the second floor to avoid being beaten.”2 Chased by her drunken lover, with a blood alcohol level…
“Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories” Migros Museum / Zurich
The environmental exhibition exploring humanity’s impact on the natural world has become something of a rite of passage for museums…
Danh Vo “Danh Vo oV hnaD” The National Museum of Art / Osaka
Danh Vo’s much-anticipated first institutional solo exhibition in Japan finally opened at the National Museum of Art after the Japanese…
“Resistance of the Sleepers” UCCA Dune / Beijing
What else is spreading along with the virus? Sleep problems. Widespread lockdowns have blurred the boundaries between work and rest,…
Olafur Eliasson: Planetary Metabolism and the Charismatic Landscapes of the Cryosphere
A series of thirty photographic prints are hung in an evenly spaced grid on a white wall in London. The…
Sveta Mordovskaya “Monuments” Cherish / Genève
Around the world, anti-racist protesters are toppling symbols of colonialism such as the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston,…
Tomás Saraceno — How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web
Darkness hung in the trees, forming a thick mass together with the humid air, enveloping everything. The only features discernible…
Theodor Ringborg / Director at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…