Since 2021, Feireiss has been a visiting professor for transdisciplinary artistic education at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where he launched a series of discursive encounters in collaboration with…[read on]
A dense mound of soil has risen from the glossy floorboards of the Guggenheim Bilbao. Framed with clean lines, not a speck of dirt out of place, this site-specific installation—Delcy Morelos’ ‘Witch (Sorgin)’…[read on]
Alexander Basil has created a cosmos. His instantly recognizable style and established color palette implicate the subject matter in a process of calm and sure scrutiny. Central to this cage…[read on]
Entering a new year, we revisit a previously featured topic that remains pertinent for many reasons: wellness pervades our thinking about not only ourselves and our bodies…[read on]
Mark Leckey’s solo show at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, ‘Enter Thru Medieval Wounds,’ feels haunted from the moment you enter (through a medieval wound, of sorts). The air…[read on]
“Freedom Forever USA” read the postage stamps, applied like bandaids to affix vast sheets of paper together. The sheets make up a monumental collage by Kara Walker, presented…[read on]
Ghosts drift through our screens, books and memes, from Netflix’s Addams Family reboot ‘Wednesday’ to ‘Nosferatu’ via ‘Caspar.’ While dominant in popular culture,…[read on]
During McKenzie Wark’s keynote address at the opening weekend of Oslo’s MUNCH Triennale, she commented on the impossibility of the realist novel as a contemporary form,…[read on]
There is not much we can do to control processes of weathering. Landscapes and humans are subject to and defenseless against it. It cannot be mimicked, it can only happen…[read on]
The title of Ligia Lewis’ exhibition at Gropius Bau sounds like a drawn-out roar: ‘I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR…’ Equally defiant and weary, performative and paradoxical,…[read on]
The ghost is inherently a contradictory notion: a form of present absence. The ways in which the absent become present, and those present can be the most absent of all…[read on]
Christelle Oyiri’s ‘Dead God Flow’ is hardly a temple for quiet contemplation. Rather, its visitors are plunged directly into the DJ-turned-artist’s natural habitat: the nightclub…[read on]