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…
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“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…
Elena Mazzi "I do not desire, I am moved" der TANK / Basel
In addition to curiosity and courage, imagine the depths of desire that once drove the first expeditions into foreign territories…
Wilhelm Sasnal “Such a Landscape” POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews / Warsaw
“The idealist aesthetic uses the idea of a static, ‘everlasting’ nature, and an a priori assumption of an existence of…
Dora Budor’s “Autoreduction” with Michèle Graf and Selina Grüter, Niloufar Emamifar, Noah Barker, and Ser Serpas Progetto / Lecce
The manner of autoreduction that Dora Budor has applied to the processuality of her “solo” exhibition in the project space…
Cudelice Brazelton, "Starter Kit" Barbara Weiss / Berlin
When I met Cudelice Brazelton for a coffee a few months ago, he was carrying a copy of Sin (1986)…
“The Ocean” Bergen Kunsthall
Has the pandemic helped us to understand that we share this world? The air, the aerosols, the bacteria, the viruses?…
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…