Ellen Berkenblit “Other Shapes at Night” Vielmetter / Los Angeles
I didn’t know just what to do So I whispered “I love you” And he said that he loved me…
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"The Puppet Show" Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève
In “The Puppet Show,” curator Mohamed Almusibli assembles seven positions by artists working across (and between) performance, sculpture, drawing, and…
"TECHNO" Museion / Bolzano
There is a macroscopic connection between the idea behind “TECHNO” and its exhibition design. I am talking about the digital…
Sands Murray-Wassink "I am not American (I love Adrian, I miss Carolee, I follow Hannah)" Auto Italia / London
In what ways is a mind a body? The one inextricably feeds the other, yes, but there are many minds…
Black Quantum Futurism “CPT Reversal” REDCAT / Los Angeles
There has never been a more opportune time to think about concepts of the “future” than our present moment —…
Rachel Rose "Enclosure" Gladstone Gallery / New York
With “Enclosure,” her latest exhibition at Gladstone Gallery, New York, Rachel Rose takes us back to a moment in time…
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley "She Keeps Me Damn Alive" Arebyte Gallery / London
If much of the art world has forgotten that art can (and ought to) be difficult, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley certainly has…
Simon Fujiwara “Once Upon a Who” Esther Schipper / Berlin
Simon Fujiwara’s “Who the Bær” character would surely indulge Marshall McLuhan’s “gadget lover,” caressing them feverishly, in the same way…
“CACOTOPIA 06” Annka Kultys Gallery / London
Originating from the Greek, kakos (“bad” or “evil”) and topos (“place”), a cacotopia is a dystopian world characterized by social…
İpek Duben “The Skin, Body, And I” SALT / Beyoğlu
“The Skin, Body, and I” is a comprehensive overview of the Istanbul period of İpek Duben’s oeuvre, covering an impressive…
"Memeplex™" Seventeen Gallery / London
Engineered by Germany-based art collective Omsk Social Club and UK-based artist Joey Holder, “Memeplex™” — a twelve-artist group exhibition at…
Rindon Johnson “Law of Large Numbers: Our Selves” Chisenhale Gallery / London
There is a way of speaking that implicates a body in everything on earth. It may affirm transitory fixity where…
Sonia Kacem "Le Superflu" Haus Konstruktiv / Zurich
Sonia Kacem’s exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv starts with large, gatelike semicircular structures that frame the entryways to the first…
Tony Conrad MAMCO / Genève
Throughout his six-decade-long career, Tony Conrad tenaciously challenged systems and boundaries, media and aesthetic categories, using any supposed limitation as…
Sanford Biggers “Only the Ashes” MASSIMODECARLO / London
Through three contrasting series presented at MASSIMODECARLO, Sanford Biggers demonstrates an understanding of history as a syncretic, participatory act. Made up…
H. R. Giger & Mire Lee Schinkel Pavillon / Berlin
Currently on view at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, the oft-termed “unlikely” dual presentation of works by the late Swiss surrealist artist…