The Economy of Absence: Scarcity and Value in Contemporary Art
We live immersed in an unprecedented proliferation of images. Every day, millions of representations crowd our devices, dissolving the boundaries between seeing and consuming, between presence and reproduction. Never before in the history of visual culture has access to images been so immediate, so
Lilian Kreutzberger, RAUHFASER at Kroller Muller Museum, Otterlo
RAUHFASER by Lilian Kreutzberger, curated by Benno Tempel, at Kroller Muller Museum, Otterlo, 1 September 2025 – 1 March 2026. Should we have crossed the threshold of the Kröller-Müller Museum as if stepping into a space more mental than physical? Leaving behind the weight of the everyday, we as
Jason Hirata, Vergeltung, at Kaiserwache, Freiburg
Vergeltung by Jason Hirata, curated by Ilja Zaharov, at Kaiserwache, Freiburg, 22/10/2025 – 30/11/2025. What does it mean to receive something simply for being present?Not for applauding, understanding, purchasing, or even attentively observing, but merely for showing up. Entering Vergeltung by Ja
The Illusion of Thinking: On the Comfort of Stereotypes
In the past two episodes of The Illusion of Thinking, we explored how art, much like artificial intelligence, learns to simulate depth and to fear failure. In both cases, what appears to be thought is often a refined form of aesthetic survival: a strategic adaptation to context rather than a genuine
The Art of Confusion: How Markets Transformed Exclusion into Value
For decades, the art world has thrived on a grand misunderstanding: mistaking incomprehensibility for depth. All it takes is an opaque language, a curatorial text heavy with empty words, and what would otherwise be trivial suddenly gains the weight of importance. Contemporary art has turned confusio
Fakewhale in Dialogue with: Greg Jager
Greg Jager’s work moves across territories, media, and languages with a radical and open approach. Blending public art, installation, performance, publishing, and site-specific intervention, his projects often inhabit ruins, marginal landscapes, or post-industrial spaces and digital errors to open
60th Zagreb Salon: Choreography for the Finish Line at Oktogon (National Museum of Modern Art), Zagreb
60th Zagreb Salon: Choreography for the Finish Line by Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko, Valentina Butumović, Maja Milutin Čule and Katy Pyle, Kristian Kožul, Petra Mrša, Tea Stražičić, Silvio Vujičić, Mario Mu, Luka Mahmuljin Udovičić and Lea Vidaković, curated by KUĆĆA (Jurica Mlinarec,
The Thinking Game: On the Cognitive Origins of Play
The Cognitive Origin Of Play What happens when play, seemingly a light and purposeless activity, is observed as a way of knowing the world?In a museum, a place devoted to preservation and reflection, play may reveal itself not as a simple childhood pastime, but as a universal principle of knowledge
Armando Andrade Tudela, Lost Labour at FORM, Amsterdam
Lost Labour, Armando Andrade Tudela at FORM, Amsterdam, 24.09.25–24.10.25. Lost Labour grows out of the remains and omissions of my practice. Some of these works have already taken shape, shown in Spain, Italy, and Peru. Others were left hanging, ideas noted down, sketches half-formed, projects th
The Digital Frontier of a New Artistic Underground
Every collapse hides a possibility. The fall of the contemporary art market (especially its upper tier) is not the end of art, but the exhaustion of a system that has mistaken visibility for meaning. What follows is not silence, but a slow reconfiguration, a search for new forms of expression capabl
