Santozeum: Elusive Lightness on a Greek Island
The sunsets of Santorini are famous. The crescent-shaped Mediterranean island, sculpted by volcanic eruptions, faces westward and slopes toward the…
Philipp Hindahl
Marianna Simnett “WINNER” Hamburger Bahnhof / Berlin
Marianna Simnett’s three-channel video installation WINNER (2024) occupies a vast space in Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof. Viewers enter through a dark…
An Illegible World. Sung Tieu
Sung Tieu has a studio in a leafy courtyard in Berlin’s Wedding district, where an assistant is busy scrubbing old…
Meredith Monk "Calling” Haus der Kunst / Munich; Oude Kerk / Amsterdam
At Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, songs by Meredith Monk lure viewers into the church nave. Large LED screens, suspended from…
“HOPE” Museion / Bolzano
Across the top floor of Museion, the contemporary art institution in the Tyrolean town of Bolzano, booms the ghostly echo…
Roberto Cuoghi Fridericianum / Kassel
The first thing visitors hear upon entering the foyer of Fridericianum is a swelling, deeply unsettling noise. Cascade-like, akin to…
Expo Chicago. The Centers Do Not Hold
As the sirens of fire engines wail and the traffic drones monotonously in the background, Theaster Gates, who is dressed…
cameron clayborn “nothing left to be” Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Berlin
US artist cameron clayborn (b. 1992) made the sculptures homegrown #1 and #2 in 2021, and yet the wafer-thin structures…
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…
Lofoten International Art Festival: Fantasmagoriana
The opening weekend of the Lofoten International Art Festival ended not exactly with an éclat, but with a remark that…
“Still Present!” 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Kader Attia, the artist who co-directed this year’s edition of the Berlin Biennale, has placed repair as a strategy at…
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…