The Illusion of Thinking: On the Comfort of Stereotypes
In the past two episodes of The Illusion of Thinking, we explored how art, much like artificial intelligence, learns to simulate depth and to fear failure. In both cases, what appears to be thought is often a refined form of aesthetic survival: a strategic adaptation to context rather than a genuine
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
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
Armando Andrade Tudela, Lost Labour at FORM, Amsterdam
Lost Labour, Armando Andrade Tudela at FORM, Amsterdam, 24.09.25–24.10.25. Lost Labour grows out of the remains and omissions of my practice. Some of these works have already taken shape, shown in Spain, Italy, and Peru. Others were left hanging, ideas noted down, sketches half-formed, projects th
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
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
Ghosts, Holograms, and AI: Emi Kusano’s EGO in the Shell
What separates being from system is becoming almost imperceptible. Inspired by the visionary Ghost in the Shell, Emi Kusano’s first solo show in New York examines this uncertainty in the age of AI. In EGO in the Shell, she explores how algorithms capture, filter, and refract us, rendering every ge
