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
What Remains of the Gesture: Fables, Algorithms, and the Melancholy of the Mechanical. Ryan Gander at Basament, Roma
“We are what we repeatedly do,” Aristotle once said. But in a time when repetition is dictated more by algorithms than habits, what exactly are we becoming?” As we descend into Basement Roma, tucked beneath the streets of Rome, the mood quickly shifts from the ancient grandeur of the city abov
Art After the Click: From Presence to Post-Production
Unseen Art: The Birth of Mediation Art, in its most mythological conception, was born to be seen. And yet, for over a century now, what we consume, more frequently and more widely, is no longer the artwork itself, but its image. Photography, introduced in the 19th century as a documentary tool, soon
Liturgies of Black: Thierry De Cordier and the Discipline of Absence
The Discipline of Nothingness There are exhibitions that present artworks, and there are those that present thresholds. NADA, the monographic project by Belgian artist Thierry De Cordier at Fondazione Prada’s Cisterna in Milan, belongs entirely to the latter. It does not offer paintings to admire,
