Fakewhale in dialogue with Yuki Okumura: On the Subjectivity of Exhibition Space
In his solo exhibition at the Secession in Vienna (March 8 – May 18, 2025), Yuki Okumura transforms the supposedly neutral white cube into a living organism endowed with memory, voice, and identity. Through three site-specific projects, Wilhelm as Hauptraum, Secession’s Hive Mind(s), and Big W
Georg Dahled, Sofiia Yesakova, Vanitous Spectre at Nymphenburg Palace, Iron House, Munich
Vanitous Spectre by Georg Dahled and Sofiia Yesakova at Nymphenburg Palace, Iron House, Munich, 12/07/2025–03/08/2025. Some spaces seem to have forgotten they are buildings. Stepping into the Iron House at Nymphenburg feels like entering an echo: the glass absorbs and multiplies, the iron remember
Seeing Yourself Seeing: James Turrell and the Politics of Perception
The first time one steps into a work by James Turrell, the effect is disarming. It might have been in 1993, during the exhibition Mapping Spaces at the Kunsthalle Basel, or perhaps at Afrum (White) (1966) exhibited at the Whitney. You walk into what seems like an empty room, quiet, dimly lit, and no
“The Illusion of Thinking”: When Art Learns to Simulate Depth
A few days ago, Apple released a paper titled The Illusion of Thinking, in which the authors argue, with notable methodological precision, that even the most advanced language models, including OpenAI’s o3, do not truly “think.” What actually happens, according to their findings, is a sophisti
Olaf Metzel: Sculpting Conflict in the Public Sphere
Sculpture as Social Detonator: Olaf Metzel and the Language of Conflict Few contemporary artists have weaponized sculpture as incisively as Olaf Metzel. For over four decades, his work has functioned less as form and more as friction, agitating, intervening, and destabilizing the sanitized surfaces
This Sculpture Doesn’t Exist: Matteo Rattini in Dialogue with Fakewhale
Matteo Rattini’s work stems from a radical intuition about the identity and life cycle of art images in the digital sphere. His practice intertwines critical observation of platforms, displaced authorship through artificial intelligence, and visibility as both an aesthetic and political condition.
Silver Trail: NEORT++ and VolumeDAO Play for Legacy, Not Hype
Tokyo doesn’t do silence, even when it’s melting outside. I haven’t been hitting many shows lately — not as many as usual, anyway. My batteries are cooked. But this one stayed on my radar. I stopped by the pre-opening talk at TOKYO NODE. I hadn’t planned to check out the exhibition so soon
HSUBAND at Plicnik: Coupling Systems and Industrial Poetics
“Every factory seems to promise a form of coherence. HSUBAND stages that promise as a condition under inspection: parts, protocols, bodies, words. The space appears frictionless, an environment where coupling is always theoretically achievable, yet the terms of that coupling remain unsettled.
Invisible Structures: Dan Graham and the Shapes of Critical Thinking
Dan Graham never followed a conventional artistic path. He didn’t attend art school, nor did he receive formal training in the traditional sense. And yet, he became one of the most influential artists and thinkers of the late twentieth century. His journey began in 1960s New York, a time when art
The Flickering Light: Marcello Maloberti – METRONOTTE
What remains of God when the word goes dark? We asked ourselves this as we stepped into San Carlo Church, welcomed by the cool breath of stone and the faint scent of worn plaster, like walking into an ancient memory. We must admit: the walls, chipped and solemn, seemed to be holding their breath. Th
