Kaiyuan Yang’s symbolist photography illuminates the dark corners of loneliness
Across a practice comprising photography, moving image and installation, Kaiyuan Yang conjures metaphorically rich image fields to address contemporary anxieties.…
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Georg Baselitz “Back Again” White Cube / Bermondsey
“I wanted to construct my connection to the world, to myself, and to my wife. The means for this should…
Xiaoming Ai: Reframing Traditions for a Modern World
We often associate the latter with highly conceptual, minimalist artworks, but the field is so much broader than that. Xiaoming…
Renwei Liu’s Architecture of Digital Perception Fuses Surrealism with Futurism
Digital artist Renwei Liu has created a distinctive visual language which he utilises to examine the increasingly unstable relationship between…
“CFG-20260727” Amant / New York
What does it mean to be “vaguely Asian”? For ten years, CFGNY, the art/fashion/performance collective founded by Daniel Chew, Ten…
Jasper Marsalis “Still Life” Chisenhale Gallery / London
Entering Chisenhale Gallery in London, a scaffolded passage opens onto a huge screen. On it a landscape scene appears, stays…
“Other Spaces – Photography in the Américo Marques Collection (Part I)” MACAM – Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins / Lisbon
With “Other Spaces – Photography in the Américo Marques Collection (Part I),” MACAM – Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins…
Bernard Frize MARe / Bucharest
The foyer of the Museum of Recent Art in Bucharest immediately resists the conventions of the white cube. Black walls,…
Maja Ruznic “Who Tastes Fire and Cannot Speak” Contemporary Fine Arts / Basel
As I arrive in Basel’s old town, on my way to Maja Ruznic’s solo exhibition “Who Tastes Fire and Cannot Speak” at Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery,…
Mia Akrap “Stronger Than Bone” Trotoar / Zagreb
Near the entrance to Mia Akrap’s “Stronger Than Bone” (2026) at Trotoar gallery in Zagreb, Croatia, a small crop of…
“Terminal Piece” mumok, Vienna
At mumok in Vienna, “Terminal Piece” does not begin as much as it is already underway. One’s sense is not of entry but of…
Isabel Nolan, “Dreamshook” 61st Venice Biennale, “In Minor Keys”
In 2017, artist Isabel Nolan coined the term “dreamshook” in order “to describe when the wanderings of a sleeping or…
Beatriz González Astrup Fearnley Museet / Oslo
In presenting a compelling overview of Beatriz González’s six-decade career, Astrup Fearnley Museet offers a survey of an artistic practice…
Ilit Azoulay and Alicja Kwade “Future Ancestors / Silent Matter” Lohaus Gallery, Munich with Mennour, Paris
It is a compelling pairing: as part of this year’s edition of “Various Others,” Lohaus Gallery, Munich, and Mennour, Paris, present works…
Engin Demir tests the limits of subjectivity in an algorithmic age
How are reality, time, and subjectivity redefined in an era dominated by computational technology? This is a question that artist…
Adam Lupton, “Too Sure of the Sun” Die Tankstelle, Galerie Judin / Berlin
There’s a good deal going on in “Too Sure of the Sun,” an exhibition of new paintings by Adam Lupton at Galerie Judin,…