Fakewhale in dialogue with Ofluxo
We have been following the journey of O Fluxo with great interest. As an online platform, it has distinguished itself through its ability to capture and showcase the most experimental trends in contemporary art, design, and visual culture. With a keen curatorial approach and a deep sensitivity to
Visual Detachment x Verse: Retina Misconceptions Allow Boundless Medium
On March 25th, 2025, Visual Detachment returns exclusively at Verse with a new Fakewhale Gallery format that interrogates our ingrained modes of seeing. By centering on the concept of “retina misconceptions,” this exhibition dissects the biases embedded in our visual apparatus and explores how d
Banks Violette in Conversation with Jesse Draxler hosted by Fakewhale
Banks Violette is an American artist whose sculptures and installations mine the aesthetics of black metal, punk, and subcultural extremity to interrogate violence, erasure, and existential collapse. Born in Ithaca, New York, his trajectory—from personal struggles including addiction, to his statu
Marek Wolfryd, Occidenterie at General Expenses, Mexico City
Occidenterie by Marek Wolfryd, at General Expenses, Mexico City, 03/02/2025-22/03/2025. Exhibition Text: We are all familiar with chinoiserie: those artifacts, especially popular in decorative arts, on which the West poured all of their thirst for Eastern exotism, imitating and reinterpreting Chines
Daniel Turner: Material Transformation, Memory, and the Poetics of Residue
Dissolution and Persistence of Form Daniel Turner’s work exists in a space where materiality is both presence and absence, where objects are not simply created but transformed, reduced, or even erased. His sculptural practice does not rely on traditional notions of form but instead explores how ma
Thomas Scheibitz, >>>X<<< at TICK TACK, Antwerpen
>>>X<<< by Thomas Scheibitz, curated by TICK TACK, at TICK TACK, Antwerpen, 14/02/2025 – 29/03/2025. Exhibition Text: TICK TACK is thrilled to announce >>>X<<<, the first solo exhibition in Belgium by world-renowned German artist Thomas Scheibitz. Scheibitz
Kanrec Sakul, Sukera Fumo at VUNU, Košice
Sukera Fumo by Kanrec Sakul, exhibition design by Niki Bernath, at VUNU, Košice, 19/02/2025. Exhibition Text: The new exhibition project by Kanrec Sakul, Sukera Fumo (translated from Esperanto as Sugar Smoke), represents another chapter in his exploration of illusory spaces and the transformation o
Between Prom Nights and Protest Signs: Anne Imhof’s DOOM House of Hope at the Park Avenue Armory
We at Fakewhale followed the buzz around Anne Imhof’s much-anticipated return to New York, where her new major U.S. production, DOOM: House of Hope, took over the Park Avenue Armory. The German artist, who won the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale with Faust, is no stranger to controversy (t
Fakewhale in Dialogue with Jacopo Benassi: The Visceral Tension of an Uncompromising Vision
Fakewhale had the pleasure of speaking with Jacopo Benassi, a multifaceted artist who moves fluidly between photography, performance, publishing, and contemporary art, constantly challenging the boundaries between these disciplines. His work is a radical act: from his exclusive use of flash, which g
Inside PXL DEX: How Kim Asendorf Tokenized the Building Blocks of Digital Imagery
In PXL DEX, one of this year’s most talked-about and successful digital art projects, Kim Asendorf reclaims the pixel, digital imagery’s most fundamental unit, by tokenizing each point of light on the Ethereum blockchain. By merging abstract aesthetics with crypto infrastructure, Asendorf introd
