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
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
Lovett/Codagnone “I Only Want You to Love Me” PAC / Milano
Lovett/Codagnone, I Only Want You to Love Me, 4 July – 14 September 2025, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, curated by Diego Sileo “Love is a minefield: you walk in dancing, hoping not to blow up.”That was the thought that struck us as we stepped into the PAC that afterno
Alexandra Bircken: Soma Sema Soma at Kunsthaus Biel
Alexandra Bircken, Soma Sema Soma, 8 June – 31 August 2025, Kunsthaus Biel / Centre d’art Bienne, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, curated by Paul Bernard and Selma Meuli There’s a fragile line between what binds us and what separates us. It’s made of skin, but also of cables, seams, and fractures.
Curating Otherwise: Interdependence as a Tool to Practice
When the old is dying and the new delays, a counter-movement rises in the infrathin of the now. Outside the prestige ecosystems of museums, biennials, and the increasing artist-run spaces, the figure of the independent curator moves on unsteady grounds marked by precarity given by the ongoing lack o
Yvo Cho at Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt: A Gesture, a Ghost: Copper, Rice, and Shame in the Empty Room
Walking toward Neue Alte Brücke on a softly dusty German afternoon, we found ourselves thinking about how silence can wound more deeply than a raised voice. What shape does shame take? Is it a sound? A smell? Perhaps a texture? That question echoed quietly as we crossed the threshold of Yvo Cho’s
MAYA DEREN – STANO FILKO: Truth Has, In Reality, Never Been Ours
Truth Has, In Reality, Never Been Ours. Like a warning or a refusal, this title lodged itself in my thoughts as we stepped into the Kunstmuseum Bochum for the exhibition running from April 26 to September 21, 2025. What does it mean, today, to say that truth is not ours? Which truth are we talking [
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
