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
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
Fakewhale in dialogue with Suez Canal Republic
‘Treasury’ by Suez Canal Republic A remote financial node as an institutional prototype for civic speculation Within Fakewhale’s ongoing research into practices that recalibrate the relation between digital art and contemporary art, we have been focusing on projects that enact complexity rathe
Life in Frames: The Wounded and Luminous World of Nan Goldin
There is something profoundly alive, and at the same time irreparably wounded, in Nan Goldin’s world. Entering the exhibition This Will Not End Well, presented at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, means crossing a threshold where personal memory becomes a universal language and the image turns into
Fakewhale in conversation with KiefferWoodtli
There’s something profoundly tactile, though entirely invisible,in the installations of KiefferWoodtli. Their work doesn’t just ask to be observed; it moves through you. Blending ecology, sound, and sensory perception, the Swiss duo builds environments where the relationship between humans and n
Tiffany Sia: Phantasmatic Screens at Mudam Luxembourg, behind the veils of perception
“Remembering is never an innocent act. It is rewriting the past with hands steeped in the present.”That’s what we told ourselves as we stepped into the rooms of Phantasmatic Screens, where a diffused white light fell on a rippled curtain, quivering like skin under a shiver. We wondered: is it
Fakewhale in conversation with Alexander Endrullat
From the very beginning, Alexander Endrullat’s work caught our attention for its ability to deconstruct the language of technological objects, transforming them into sensitive surfaces, narrative tools, and at times, ghostly visual traces. Spanning from printing with obsolete laptops to pinhole ph
