If the Snake / Okayama Art Summit
The title of the second Okayama Art Summit is a half-formulated hypothesis: “If the Snake.” I guess we’ll never know.…
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Berlin Art Week 2019
Now in its eighth edition, Berlin Art Week is a victim of its own popularity. Spanning five days (September 11–15),…
MOMENTUM10 10th Nordic Biennial of Contemporay Art / Norway
The tenth installment of this Scandinavian biennial, held in the small paper-milling town of Moss, Norway, can certainly be seen…
CRACK UP – CRACK DOWN 33rd Ljubljana Biennial
What is the place of comedy in a groundless world? Amid the volatility of contemporary society, where claims of truth,…
Visions of the Apocalypse to Come LISTE Art Fair 2019
It is hard for anything to stand out at LISTE. This is at least in part due to how the…
artmonte-carlo 2019
As we approached the center of Monaco, the driver who picked me up at the airport pointed out one of…
Gallery Weekend Berlin: No, Women Won’t Go Quietly
If the world sometimes feels like a boy’s club, it’s because, sometimes, it is a boy’s club. Roll up, roll…
artgenève 2019
Upon ascending the escalator of the Palexpo complex, visitors to this edition of artgenève were greeted by a bright sea…
Notes from aboard the MS Trollfjord
For the second year in a row, the Hurtigruten cruise ship line has hosted Coast Contemporary, a four-day symposium and…
12th Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders
It is no secret that art biennials are at an impasse, given the recurring and vaguely political frameworks associated with…
33rd Bienal de São Paulo: Affective Affinities
Not much info was made public in advance of the 33rd São Paulo Bienal’s opening. Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro was named chief…
AB6 / Athens Biennale 2018
A naked yellow body, head wrapped in bright orange fabric, clasping an enormous bamboo crucifix, spills out of the former…
Ghost:2561 / Bangkok
Instead of wall text, the inaugural Ghost:2561 — a new video and performance triennial in Bangkok curated by New York–based…
steirischer herbst ’18 / Graz
The Popular Front was a reckless attempt to unite different political forces in the 1930s against the rise of fascism.…
NEMOSKVA International Travelling Symposium NCCA and ROSIZO / (Omsk / Tomsk / Novosibirsk / Krasnoyarsk)
The institutionalization of “art from the regions” is, arguably, the main tendency in Russian cultural policy. If private capital has…
The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence Manifesta 12 / Palermo
Palermo, June 16, 5:25 PM. Three men at the corner of Via Degli Schioppettieri recite in steady voices, “I wonder…