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…
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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…
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…