MMMAD Festival 2025: “Abracadabra”: of Magic and Technology
From April 24 to May 24, Madrid becomes a hub of artistic and technological marvels, hosting the sixth edition of MMMAD Festival under the theme “Abracadabra: of Magic and Technology.” In this month-long celebration, the city’s iconic spaces, streets, and cultural centers will be transformed
ZERO IN: The Image as a Necessary Accident:on Rita Ackermann + Harmony Korine at the Maria Leuff Foundation
Some images arrive with the clarity of a completed gesture; others crash into view like accidents. They hesitate, stutter, get dirty. They don’t reveal themselves; they happen. ZERO IN, the exhibition at the Maria Leuff Foundation that brings together Rita Ackermann’s painting with Harmony Korin
Beyond the Real: Art in the Age of Perpetual Reproduction
The Image Before the Experience The exhibition begins well before its official opening. The public already knows about it, comments on it, and forms opinions before even stepping into the gallery. Contemporary art happens on Instagram, not as a direct experience, but as a flow of images that precede
Tatjana Vall, Warm Silver Skies at BRITTA RETTBERG, Munich
Warm Silver Skies by Tatjana Vall at BRITTA RETTBERG, Munich, from February 14 to March 29, 2025. “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World There is something deeply human, and ther
Curator Spotlight #4: Yuqian Sun
In this new chapter of the “Curator Spotlight” series curated by Giuseppe Moscatello and Linda Shen, the exploration into the intersection of digital artistic experimentation and the cultural dynamics of the contemporary Chinese art scene continues. The transformative capabilities of gen
What is LOWTECH?
Fakewhale emerges as a critical response to this transitional moment, where technology not only takes on an increasingly central role but asserts itself with a pervasive, almost intrusive presence, particularly within the realm of art. This technological infiltration is riddled with ambiguities: on
Meta-Mythical Optimisation” by Chino Moya: An Apocalypse of Routine in Monastic Robes
“Utopia is a necessary dream. But also an inevitable nightmare.” We walk into Chino Moya’s exhibition with this thought in mind, perhaps a distortion of some dystopian author’s words, or maybe just our own cynical synthesis. Because every time we are presented with a vision of the future, es
Zombie Curating in the Infrathin of the Now. Beyond the ‘Curatorial’
In my white-cube bedroom, I notice how cold and impersonal such a space can get. Books are few and far between in my environment, partly because I am in a temporary residence and away from my home city. But even then, I reflect upon how galleries and non-profit spaces place art pieces and means of [
Private on Display: Juliette Blightman and the Performance of Intimacy
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only one who is never serious.” – Oscar Wilde There is something paradoxical about intimacy today. It is everywhere and nowhere. The private spills into the public with unsettling ease, lives laid bare, emotions broadca
