Pakui Hardware “Virtual Care” BALTIC / Gateshead
I was once told by a nurse, “If there is a pill for it, take it.” I was a teen…
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Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings "In My Room” MOSTYN / Wales
The song “In My Room,” after which Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings have titled their debut institutional show — a…
Mathis Altmann "Butcher Block" Efremidis / Berlin
“The city was the sign of capital: it was there one saw the commodity take on flesh — take up…
Phyllida Barlow “frontier“ Haus der Kunst / Munich
British artist Phyllida Barlow had her late-blooming international breakthrough only after her retirement as a professor at the Slade School…
Alice Channer "Megaflora" Large Glass / London
The surfaces of Alice Channer’s sculptures actualize both evidence and emergence: evidence in their exposure of polyphonic, contaminating processes; and…
Joey Holder “Abyssal Seeker” Seventeen Gallery / London
Joey Holder’s exhibition complicates the concept of a “net-zero carbon” economy by which corporations can offset their carbon footprint. Current…
Leidy Churchman “The Between is Ringing” Rodeo / London
At first blush, the wound appears amoeboid. Afloat in decontextualized, atemporal amber, its charred kohl perimeter the blackness of clotting.…
“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…
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 —…