N. Dash “earth” S.M.A.K. Museum for Contemporary Art / Gent
Even before entering her show, one perceives the importance the artist gives to the details that surround it: a sign…
Reviews
Austin Martin White "Last Dance" Capitain Petzel / Berlin
Like coexisting layers of history, the works of Austin Martin White superimpose figure, ground, and ghostly apparitions. In the lofty…
Juliana Huxtable “AKIMBO SPITTLE” Project Native Informant / London
Even in description there is a kind of consumption; it is, in part, an inevitable fate for a review: to…
Sturtevant “Dialectic of Distance” Thaddaeus Ropac / London
It is hard not to draw connections between the sense of confusion, claustrophobia, and scarcity created by two Sturtevant (1924–2014)…
Bianca Hlywa “Residual Yeast” Gossamer Fog / London
When I spoke with Bianca Hlywa on Zoom for the first time, I had not yet seen her exhibition “Residual…
Danielle Orchard “Page Turner” Perrotin / Paris
“There’s a lot of reciprocity between my lived life and my painting life,” Danielle Orchard notes, surveying her canvases at…
Keren Cytter "Bad Words" Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst / Aachen
Ooh, we know some bad words, don’t we? We don’t get to know exactly which bad words the artist is…
Marie Cool Fabio Balducci “Dai campi all’elica” MCBA Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts / Lausanne
For Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, the exhibition is a test. When they mount an exhibition in the institutional spaces of…
Anna Franceschini “Il salotto cattivo” Campoli Presti / Paris
“Please accommodate and excuse the mess,” whispers Anna Franceschini in the heart of Paris, referring to the back cover of…
Ugo Rondinone "burn shine fly" Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista / Venice
When thinking about Ugo Rondinone’s work, one will inevitably recall “Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno” (Palais de Tokyo, Paris,…
Steve McQueen “Sunshine State” Pirelli HangarBicocca / Milan
It could be that film is the medium of death, even more so than the photograph, whose stasis in a…
“Role Play” Osservatorio Fondazione Prada / Milan
The staging of “Role Play,” a group exhibition on view at Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, seems to echo the neuronal system…
Lene Berg “Fra Far” Bergen Kunsthall
Lene Berg’s “Fra Far,” on view at Bergen Kunsthall, is about a murder, and it is not a spoiler to…
Stanislava Kovalcikova “am I dead yet” Peres Projects / Berlin
Depression feels like an irrepressible yet lethargic urge to continuously ask yourself, “Am I dead yet?” while laying on your…
Tina Braegger “Wer wagt mit mir ein Tänzchen, der wird sich verrenken” Neuer Essener Kunstverein / Essen
Imagine a group of dancing bears. Their mighty limbs positioned in similar poses on each frame, their jaws locked in…
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…