Post-Referential Space: A New Paradigm for Exhibition and Experience
Towards a Generative Ontology of Space In recent decades, contemporary art has progressively dismantled the long-standing assumptions of fixity and localization that, for centuries, structured the relationship between the artwork and its spatial context. The exhibited object, once anchored to a spec
Tanja Widmann & Johannes Porsch: Cell Project Space, London
“-1, plus One” – Beneath and Beyond the Sign of Authorship Not every door opens to let you in. Sometimes it’s a reflective membrane, bouncing back a distorted echo of what you thought you’d left behind. As you cross the threshold into “-1, plus One,” Tanja Widmann’s first solo sh
Ian Wilson: There Was a Discussion
There was a time when conceptual artists roamed the art world. But some were more so than others. The idea that “conceptual” might be synonymous with “radical” is tempting, yet it leaves an open question: what does it truly mean to be radical, and how far can an artist really go? The story o
Tarik Kiswanson: The Relief – War Memory, Music, and the Fragility of Transmission
The Relief by Tarik Kiswanson at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, May 8 – August 30, 2025. There is a moment, even before stepping through the threshold, when the mind fills with a silence that is not the absence of sound, but a dense anticipation, almost a vibration. The light of Hamburg, filtered
Fakewhale Studio: INTERLACED OBJECTS
INTERLACED OBJECTS, Fakewhale Studio, 07.08, 07.09.2025, NEW YORK (SERVERS) What remains of an artwork if not its reflection? And what happens when even that reflection is a mirage, fabricated by a machine? We’d love to say we were there, but this time that’s not possible. INTERLACED OBJECTS
Crafted for Your Attention: As Predictable as Art
There’s something deeply alluring about predictability. It’s like a mental embrace, a kind of linguistic stillness that shields us from the unknown. Everyday communication rituals, “How are you?”, “Good, and you?”, aren’t meant to inform, but to affirm. They’re gestures of inclusion,
“The Illusion of Thinking”: Learning to Fail
A few days ago, we published The Illusion of Thinking, a speculative detournement of an Apple research paper on artificial reasoning. The operation was simple: we replaced the subject “AI” with “artwork,” revealing how the logic of simulation, optimization, and surface-level depth applies eq
Softimage, On the Threshold of the Visible and the Simulated
Perspective by Softimage (Katja Breder, Viola Del Monte, Hannes Hochmuth, Lara Jordan, Luka Keresman, Fruzsina Kiss, Christopher Krause, Anton Kruse, Gabriela Lesmes López, Leo Schilz, Delphine Wigger, William Ye), curated by Volo Bevza, at Cank, Berlin, 27–29 June 2025. Stepping into Softimage
TICK TACK Presents Allen-Golder Carpenter’s Sojourn: On Memory, Erasure, and the Politics of Remembrance
At TICK TACK in Antwerp, Allen-Golder Carpenter presents Sojourn (25 July – 6 September 2025), their first solo exhibition in Belgium, a deeply layered, multi-form exploration of memory, monumentality, and historical accountability. Drawing upon the philosophical and aesthetic lexicon of the Japan
Softimag, On the Threshold of the Visible and the Simulated
Perspective by Softimage (Katja Breder, Viola Del Monte, Hannes Hochmuth, Lara Jordan, Luka Keresman, Fruzsina Kiss, Christopher Krause, Anton Kruse, Gabriela Lesmes López, Leo Schilz, Delphine Wigger, William Ye), curated by Volo Bevza, at Cank, Berlin, 27–29 June 2025. Stepping into Softimage
