“The Films of Guillaume Dustan (2000–2004)” Fri Art Kunsthalle / Fribourg
At the turn of the millennium, Guillaume Dustan was a spark plug of queer issues. His autofictional debut novel made…
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David Hammons “Body Prints, 1968-1979” The Drawing Center / New York
David Hammons’s “body prints,” his early works on paper, are a groundbreaking series that launched the artist’s career. The technique…
"The Aesthetic of Cool: Kwesi Botchway, Amoako Boafo, and Otis Kwame Kye" Gallery 1957 / Accra
In the group exhibition “Homecoming: The Aesthetic of the Cool” — which presents the work of three Ghanaian portraitists, Otis…
Sandra Mujinga "Spectral Keepers" The Approach Gallery / London
The semiotics of the color green are not always immediately understandable. For all its cross-cultural signifiers — as a marker…
Wu Tsang "Visionary Company" Lafayette Anticipations / Paris
A good novel can give one a feel for an idea as if it were a flesh-and-blood person. In this…
Karolina Bielawska, Matthew Peers “Fields” Galeria Wschód / Warsaw
In this seductive two-person show, taking its cue from John Berger’s 1971 essay “Field,” two artists working in seemingly different…
"THE ARTIST IS ONLINE" König Galerie / Berlin + Decentraland
In recent years, border traffic between contemporary art and new media has done little more than inject periodic shots of…
Shota Nakamura “dear moon” Peres Projects / Berlin
Shota Nakamura’s latest works are a celebration of abundant, queer rest. Languid men lie prone in all but two of…
Luke Ching Chin Wai, “Glitch in the Matrix” Para Site / Hong Kong
One of the biggest hindrances of institutionally packaged and formatted creative work is the tension between producer and spectator —…
Eli Ping “BONE” Ramiken / New York
Lucio Fontana’s creed “Art is eternal as gesture, but not as matter” echoes throughout Eli Ping’s show “BONE” at Ramiken.…
Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir “WERK - Labor Move” Reykjavík Art Museum / Hafnarhús
It’s a fairly straightforward affair: in Hulda Rós Guðnadóttir’s exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum, we see a three-channel video…
Ser Serpas “Guesthouse” LC QUEISSER / Tbilisi
A haunting liquidity permeates Ser Serpas’s first solo exhibition at LC QUEISSER in Tbilisi, Georgia. Titled “Guesthouse,” it is a…
Zandile Tshabalala “Enter Paradise” ADA \ contemporary art gallery / Accra
Enter Paradise features an ensemble of ten portrait paintings, unveiling black females as central figures, in a state of rest,…
Miriam Cahn, “ME AS HAPPENING” Kunsthal Charlottenborg / Copenhagen
Miriam Cahn’s exhibition functions like a story of the self through the history one lives. The title “ME AS HAPPENING”…
Gianni Pettena “Forgiven by Nature” La Verrière-Fondation d’entreprise Hermes & ISELP / Brussels
Like Arte Povera, Radical Architecture was a movement that came about in Italy in the late 1960s, born from a…
“Nour El Ain (نور العين)” Karma International / Zurich
Our heritages bind us, socially and emotionally, to our intimate desires. This engaging exhibition confronts themes of humanity’s thirst for…