“The Ocean” Bergen Kunsthall
Has the pandemic helped us to understand that we share this world? The air, the aerosols, the bacteria, the viruses?…
Reviews
Safouane Ben Slama and Samar Hejazi "And yet it rises" Cassandra Cassandra / Toronto
In the summer moments closest to the solstice, I think nothing of the sunlight stretching on. During the deepest recesses…
Rosa Barba “The Perpetual Now” Neue Nationalegalerie / Berlin
Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina opens with a clear delineation — “Time: Today; Place: Vienna” — before commencing, “But I had to…
Tarek Lakhrissi "My Immortal" Mostyn / Wales
Initially trained with a degree in literature, the French-Algerian artist Tarek Lakhrissi identifies as both an artist and poet, and…
Michael Stevenson "Disproof Does Not Equal Disbelief" KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin
Upon reading the title, I was sure the exhibition would reflect on contemporary conspiracy narratives. But it dives much deeper…
Felix Gonzalez-Torres "The Politics of Relation" MACBA / Barcelona
Lucky reinterpretations do exist. In one of his best-known texts, Walter Benjamin describes Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus (1920) in the…
Özgür Kar “Macabre” KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS / Vienna
The allegorical Danse Macabre from the Middle Ages expresses Death’s equalizing power over humanity: in the end, everyone has to…
"I GOT UP" Hot Wheels / Athens
Four identical postcards displayed in the gallery’s entryway bear the stamped, enigmatic phrase “I GOT UP AT,” followed by the…
Oto Gillen "Wax Gourd" LOMEX Gallery / New York
A fine-grained texture permeates Oto Gillen’s photographs of New York City, as if the psychic friction of eight and a…
Olga Balema “Computer” Camden Art Centre / London
All for the little nature of water lilies, Claude Monet developed a portion of land and diverted a narrow arm…
Alice Neel “People Come First” The Met Museum / New York
The exhibition “Alice Neel: People Come First” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the first New York museum retrospective…
“Hartung 80” and “Rothko – Hartung, a multiform friendship" Perrotin / Paris
“Hartung 80” is the third exhibition that Perrotin has devoted to Hans Hartung — following those held in New York…
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…
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…