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
Her Selected Works: Pusher, London
Gritli Faulhaber, Théa Giglio, Juliette Lena Hager, Georgina Hill, Adriana Lara, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Ryder Morey-Weale, Romane Prunières, Elliot Roberts, Hanna Rochereau, Andreas Schmid, Daniel Zeballos, Her Selected Works, 12 July – 6 September 2025, Pusher, London, UK There’s something h
RJ Messineo: 4:00 Universe” a Morán Morán, Los Angeles
RJ Messineo, 4:00 Universe, 14 March – 30 May 2020, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, USA Every day, at four in the afternoon, something fractures. It’s a suspended hour, almost capricious: too late for full daylight, too early for nightfall. That’s when the light bends, orange, pink, and the world
Fakewhale in dialogue with Paula Ferrés
We have been closely following the research of Paula Ferrés, whose project Volumetric Representation of Performative Spaces investigates how image-based and scanning technologies transform performative environments from ephemeral, embodied experiences into permanent digital residues. Her work chall
From Relational Aesthetics to Aesthetic Relations: On the Value of Interaction in Contemporary Art
When Nicolas Bourriaud published his seminal text Relational Aesthetics in 1998, his thesis emerged as a necessary departure from the object-based and self-referential forms of 1980s art. The artwork was no longer conceived as a closed entity, but as a generative device for human relationships, capa
Wolfgang Tillmans at the BPI – Centre Pompidou, Paris
Wolfgang Tillmans, Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us, 13 June – 22 September 2025, Bibliothèque publique d’information (BPI), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Some places feel less like they’ve been lived in and more like they’ve been dreamed backwards,
“3 summers” by Tarik Kiswanson, Fatima Moallim, Lisa Tan at Lunds konsthall
Tarik Kiswanson, Fatima Moallim, Lisa Tan, 3 Somrar / 3 Summers, 7 June – 31 August 2025, Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden, curated by Åsa Nacking, Laura Goldschmidt, Paula Luduşan Gibe What remains of a summer once the echo of previous seasons fades into the present? The title 3 summers carries th
“The Gatherers” at MoMA PS1: Where the Superfluous Stares Back
“The Gatherers”, 24 April – 6 October 2025, MoMA PS1 (Long Island City, New York, USA), curated by Ruba Katrib What remains when nothing is truly needed anymore? The question lingers around us as soon as we reach the third floor of MoMA PS1, wandering through the austere hallways of the fo
