Everything Looks Like Art, But Nothing Feels Like Art: A conversation with Ilse Kind on visibility, platforms, and the ghosts of artistic intent
There are moments when a single episode captures, with almost brutal clarity, the contradictions we live with. For artist Ilse Kind, this moment came on Instagram, a platform she had long resisted. Kind built her practice around anthropomorphizing technologies, questioning the way algorithms influen
Jason Dodge: From Minimal Gestures to Narrative Conditions, Where Objects Become Thresholds of Meaning
We were leafing through the catalogue of an exhibition we had seen years ago at MACRO in Rome when Jason Dodge’s name began to resonate again from the pages, like a familiar call. Then we recalled that precise sensation: entering the space and not encountering a single work to contemplate, but rat
Fakewhale in dialogue with Alex Hartley
In his most recent body of work, Alex Hartley appears to undertake an operation that is as physical as it is visionary: peeling back the surface layer of the present to connect with latent energies and layered narratives, geological, cosmic, and cultural, that move through uncertain, looping, and ne
Bytes, Data, Backups, Uploads, Reviews, Photographs: The Role of Documentation and Preservation in Contemporary Art
We might say, exaggerating just a little and using this as a provocation to open the article, that all contemporary art is, ultimately, documentation. This is not a mere semantic shift but an observation rooted in the very nature of artistic languages, which arise and evolve with a specific function
KEN OKIISHI · JOHANNES PORSCH · TANJA WIDMANN: Derivatives Affaires at Schleuse, Vienna
KEN OKIISHI · JOHANNES PORSCH · TANJA WIDMANN: Derivatives Affaires at Schleuse, Vienna 05/09/2025–27/09/2025. Every now and then, we ask ourselves, what does “production” really mean today? Not in abstract terms, but right there, faced with a sheet of paper, a sliver of metal, a printed ima
Paula Gogola & Natália Sýkorová at Medium Gallery, Bratislava
Paula Gogola & Natália Sýkorová, Begone Estrone, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, July 23 – August 31, 2025, curated by Zuzana Jakalová, exhibition design by Adam Rýznar, graphic design by Prokhor Maserov, soundscape by Johannes Tröstler. -n the bathroom, there is no lying. Not to the flesh,
Stephanie LaCava: Nymph – Anatomy of a Carefully Kept Wound
-There had to be a word for that, when something makes you uneasy because it’s familiar and correct, and everything else is not.- That word is Nymph. It starts with a premonition. A subtle vertigo, like catching a childhood scent in an unfamiliar alley, or glimpsing someone in a dream who knows yo
The Power of Cute: Review of the 13th Berlin Biennale by Sofia Baldi Pighi
From rhetoric to whisper, the 13th Berlin Biennale adopts a deliberate posture of political engagement. It looks sideways, renounces slogans and the monumentality of frontal denunciation, and instead prefers a critical discourse whispered in the ear. This edition investigates fugitivity, understood
BENASSI LIBERO! Aesthetic of Friction at Palazzo Ducale, Genova
“Today I feel free. I’ve freed myself from a certain kind of photography, but without bitterness. Maybe I no longer need to define myself through any one medium. Maybe just free. Yes, free.” This statement, made by Jacopo Benassi at the close of a recent interview, echoes throughout ev
Fakewhale in dialogue with S. Mercure
In S. Mercure’s work, the exhibition space is never a passive container, it becomes a sensitive surface, a listening body, an active agent of transformation. His pieces do not simply inhabit space; they absorb its invisible residues, dust, humidity, shadows, vibrations, translating them into gestu
