The building of all empires requires art and, much like the global franchise that is the Guggenheim, Refik Anadol’s generative AI artwork arrives alongside a new form of empire…[read on]
Samra Mayanja is a performance artist, poet and curator responsible for the project space The Call Centre in Hackney Wick, London. Mayanja’s performances…[read on]
At some point or another, an exhibition text is likely to refer to the public—the audience, the visitor, the viewer. This amorphous category is given a lot of weight and critical responsibility…[read on]
Video art can be a tricky medium—it requires an attention span that isn’t always easy to access in art-viewing settings. So when I emerged from Mudam Luxembourg’s underground space…[read on]
Miloš Trakilović’s solo exhibition, ‘Not a Love Song,’ currently on display at KW, explores the entanglement of sound, history and technology. The artist trained neural networks on war-zone recordings to detect latent tonalities…[read on]
“All things are alter’d, nothing is destroyed,” writes John Dryden, translating Odin’s ‘Metamorphosis.’ Or M. NourbeSe Philip, who borrows this epigraph from Odin in her book…[read on]
Shu Lea Cheang is a ground-breaking Taiwanese artist whose works have long considered the cycles of growth and decay in rural, urban and digital environments, as well as the ways in…[read on]
Artist, researcher and curator Sybille Neumeyer recently opened the group show ‘Teleconnections’ at D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, as part of her long-term artistic research into the narratives…[read on]
Vera Kox’s affectionately named “creatures” look like something between industrial pollution—think of the white blobs of polyvinyl acetate that recently washed onto the shores…[read on]
Gisèle Vienne’s dolls stare. They do so impassively; at the gallery’s floors, at the ceilings, at the walls or out its windows. They never lock eyes, despite always existing in each other’s vicinity…[read on]
