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
MinOhrichar, Kahee Jeong, Dead Spot at Caption Seoul, Seoul
Dead Spotby MinOhrichar and Kahee Jeong, curated by Hyein Kim and Keunchan Yoo, at Caption Seoul, Seoul, 12/07/2025 – 10/08/2025. There’s an artificial coolness that stings like ice. Stepping into the exhibition Dead Spot feels like entering a spiritual freezer, a space where the crisp air is so
Fakewhale in dialogue with Yuki Okumura: On the Subjectivity of Exhibition Space
In his solo exhibition at the Secession in Vienna (March 8 – May 18, 2025), Yuki Okumura transforms the supposedly neutral white cube into a living organism endowed with memory, voice, and identity. Through three site-specific projects, Wilhelm as Hauptraum, Secession’s Hive Mind(s), and Big W
Georg Dahled, Sofiia Yesakova, Vanitous Spectre at Nymphenburg Palace, Iron House, Munich
Vanitous Spectre by Georg Dahled and Sofiia Yesakova at Nymphenburg Palace, Iron House, Munich, 12/07/2025–03/08/2025. Some spaces seem to have forgotten they are buildings. Stepping into the Iron House at Nymphenburg feels like entering an echo: the glass absorbs and multiplies, the iron remember
