Print as Witness: Fakewhale at WUF Basel 2025: Celebrating Paper
Fakewhale is pleased to participate as official presenting partner of WUF Basel 2025: Celebrating Paper, an event entirely dedicated to publishing in the fields of contemporary art and photography. This special occasion will take place June 17–18, 2025, at the WUF Lounge & Studio, located on t
Monica Bonvicini at Capitain Petzel: It is Night Outside
There’s a moment, just as you cross the gallery’s threshold, when the darkness implied by the title slips in, not as a lack of light, but as an existential condition. “It is Night Outside”: a phrase that doesn’t merely describe but warns. What is this night? A historical moment? A mental s
Nico Vascellari: “Pastorale” at Palazzo Reale, Milan
“I remember swallowing a cherry pit as a child…” From this very first line, Nico Vascellari invites us to think of the body as a field to be sown, a fertile clod where fear can blossom into vision. It reads like an unexpected allegory for the entire exhibition: Pastorale is not a refuge from h
The Spectacle of the Void: Art Without an Object
In the most extreme forms of conceptual art, the artistic gesture tends to vanish, dissolving into the thought that generates it. The “invisible artwork” emerges as both paradox and provocation, a declaration of war. It offers no object, no image, no body to contemplate, only an idea that endure
“Rushes” at Fluentum, Berlin: video art that breathes through the ruins of the real
What’s left of lived experience when it’s constantly filtered, fragmented, and reframed through screens? Perhaps only an echo, a digital residue flickering between apps, feeds, and lenses, or something more elusive: a faint yet persistent awareness that everything we do, no matter how mundane or
Visual Capital: Designing for the Feed, Aesthetics, Algorithms, and the Creation of Works Made to Be Seen
Visual Value as the Dominant Currency An image is no longer simply looked at, it’s evaluated. In a split second, the eye decides whether to linger or scroll past. Artworks are no longer contemplative objects; they are visual interfaces designed to strike, assert themselves, and embed into the fl
Curator Spotlight #5: Cao Shu
In this fourth chapter of our Curator Spotlight series, we continue our journey through the evolving landscape of Chinese digital and new media art. This time, we turn our attention to Cao Shu, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans writing, photography, 3D digital moving image, mixed-media
Venice Architecture Biennale 2025: The City as a Lab, Water as a Manifesto
The 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Carlo Ratti, opens its doors to the public, unveiling the winners of this year’s Golden Lions and special mentions. With themes ranging from ecological urgency to urban experimentation, the Biennale once again aff
June Crespo – SOLAR: Galería Ehrhardt Flórez
There’s a subtle but decisive difference between “looking inside” and “seeing through.” Entering SOLAR, June Crespo’s second solo exhibition at Galería Ehrhardt Flórez, feels like surrendering to that distinction, being struck by the strange allure of forms that seem to have shed thei
Océane Bruel & Dylan Ray Arnold at Lämpimästi: Swallowed Rooms.
There’s a peculiar sensation that arises only in certain moments: when you enter a room that doesn’t belong to you, but feels eerily familiar. A spoon left askew, light catching on a glossy surface, the muffled pulse of a pipe behind the wall. Georges Perec wrote that to live is to move from one
