Collecting the Digital: the Gesture, the Container, the Era
Collecting art today can no longer be understood simply as owning an object. Not in an age when the artwork itself has become fluid, dematerialized, and inseparable from the digital environment in which it is created.We live in a time when the shared digital image holds unprecedented cultural weight
Thinking in Images: André Malraux and the Museum Without Walls
The Curatorial Gesture as Artwork The photograph of André Malraux, surrounded by a constellation of images laid across the floor, does not depict a moment of preparation or research, it enacts a gesture of creation. What we witness is not an editorial pause but an authorial act. Malraux’s posture
Fakewhale in Dialogue with FORM Space: A New Curatorial Syntax for Generative Visuality
In today’s hyper-documented landscape of contemporary art, where photography and video often risk flattening or “cooling down” the experience of the work, a radical curatorial project has emerged that reconfigures this relationship entirely. In their projects, documentation is not trea
Fakewhale in Conversation with Martin Dörr: Sleepwalking Systems
We have been closely following Martin Dörr’s interdisciplinary practice, which weaves together installation, media art, and systemic thinking into complex, original constellations. His work, often engaging with non-human agents and speculative infrastructures, challenges traditional narratives by
Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Check Valve at SANATORIUM, Istanbul
Check Valve by Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, at SANATORIUM, Istanbul, 23 May – 12 July 2025. Exhibition text: SANATORIUM presents Kerem Ozan Bayraktar’s solo exhibition Check Valve as the inaugural show of its new venue in Karaköy. The exhibition will be on view from May 23 to July 12, 2025. Works span
Sanna Helena Berger, Absolut at Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin
Absolut by Sanna Helena Berger, at Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin, 4 May – 14 June 2025. Absolut is a new series of works through which Berger presents antithetical artistic positions to her standard practice where pure white, symbolising the institutional, is contrasted with lived-in hues and shades of
Zhankun Dai, Crashing Exercises at Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai
Crashing Exercises by Zhankun Dai, at Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, 29 May – 26 July 2025. You don’t walk into Crashing Exercises, you breach it. A fractured fuselage leans like a wounded threshold at the gallery’s entrance, and already the air feels charged with a hush that is anything but peac
Every system contains within itself the seeds of its own transcendence
As digital infrastructures increasingly shape not only our environments but also the architectures of subjectivity itself, Console Spirituality, curated by Vienna Kim and Benoît Palop (LAN Party) for Feral File, emerges as a precise, almost liturgical inquiry into the threshold where gaming logic,
Inside Art Basel 2025: New Sections, Old Tensions, and Evolving Visions
In an art fair landscape that is increasingly crowded and marked by growing pressures, from rising costs and fluctuating sales to the proliferation of alternative events, Art Basel responds with an innovative format: Premiere, a new section designed to welcome small and mid-sized galleries with a fr
The Saturation of Vision: Apathy in the Age of Scrolling
It’s no longer a matter of visibility. The images are already here. Everywhere. At every moment.We don’t need to seek them out, they find us. They pass through us, slip into the gaps of our attention, strike the retina, overlap, are forgotten. Art, video art, design, politics, advertising, pain,
