The Collapse of the Contemporary Art Market: When Value Loses Its Narrative
For years, a fissure could be felt beneath the polished surface of the contemporary art market, an invisible yet growing crack made of excess, saturation, and fatigue. Today, that crack has become a fracture. Auctions are slowing, sales are falling, galleries are closing or even converting into non-
Bengt Tibert, BODIES OF WORK
There is a moment, when looking at certain images, in which the body feels too vast for the gaze that tries to contain it. It is not just matter, not just figure: it is an excess, a gesture that overflows the visible and dissolves into the frame that holds it. In BODIES OF WORK, Bengt […]
Fakewhale in conversation with Franc Archive
Coming from a background in street art and now working across digital installations and performative interventions, Franc builds an unexpected bridge between urban space and the virtual realm, between direct action in public space and algorithmic intervention online. With Breaking the News, his most
Cemile Sahin, «BB – BORN TO BLOOM», at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St.Gallen
«BB – BORN TO BLOOM» by Cemile Sahin, curated by Giovanni Carmine, at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St.Gallen, 06/09/2025–16/11/2025. What strategies does nature offer when war encroaches on every horizon? Can a flower become a monument, a camouflage, a myth? Entering Cemile Sahin’s first solo e
Myungchan Kim, Dahoon Nam, Ahyeon Ryu, Min Shin, Hán Yohan, Tactics for an Era, at K&L Museum, Seoul
Myungchan Kim, Dahoon Nam, Ahyeon Ryu, Min Shin, Hán Yohan, Tactics for an Era, at K&L Museum, Seoul What strategies are left to those who inhabit an era that already feels occupied, saturated, coded into its own machinery?How can we remain present, active, tactical, not just witnesses, in a ti
Luis Maria Sulzmann, Untitled, at Ping Pong, Copenhagen
“Untitled” by Luis Maria Sulzmann, at Ping Pong, Copenhagen, 02/10/2025–10/10/2025. What happens when our gaze drops to the height of a rat? When architecture ceases to be our privileged domain and instead becomes an animal labyrinth, narrow, porous, constraining? We asked ourselves th
Cinema After Cinema, The Last Film We Will Ever Make: Where creation becomes simulation and authorship evolves into new forms of possibility
Cinema has always been a paradox, suspended between industry and intimacy. It is a machinery of colossal scale, yet capable of delivering the smallest tremor of human vulnerability. What we now confront, however, is not simply another technological shift within its history, sound, color, digital edi
Till Bödeker, Tilt, at Coelner Zimmer, Düsseldorf
Tilt by Till Bödeker, at Coelner Zimmer, Düsseldorf, 19/09/2025 – 19/10/2025. When the ground shifts beneath our feet, it’s rarely due to an earthquake. More often, it’s our gaze that falters, tilting like a camera forcing the horizon line, like a mind teetering between the right move and
Nicolás Rupcich, TRL at ZiMMT, Leipzig
“TRL” by Nicolás Rupcich, at ZiMMT, Leipzig, 18/09/2025 – 28/09/2025. What remains of landscape when it ceases to be a place and becomes a dataset? As we entered the spaces of ZiMMT, we found ourselves wondering whether immersion, that much-lauded mantra of contemporary art, might in
Samuel Henne, untitled (note to self) at ad/ad – Project Space, Hannover
untitled (note to self) by Samuel Henne, curated by ad/ad – Project Space, at ad/ad – Project Space, Hannover, 06/09/2025 – 21/10/2025. Who speaks, who listens? A fragmented phrase drifts before our eyes, half monologue, half question, and we find ourselves wondering: is this “note to se
