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]
PAF Olomouc, the annual convergence of art, film and music in Czechia, defies easy categorization. Over the course of four packed days, a deluge of screenings dominated this year…[read on]
After decades of pernickety poststructuralist critique, nothing is neutral or pure anymore—especially in the space of contemporary art where every detail is amplified…[read on]
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” Arthur C. Clarke famously penned. Magic is precisely the word to describe the phantasmagoric effect Cyprien Gaillard conjures…[read on]
‘No! More White Money’ begins before we enter the theater, when Konstantin “Kunst” Kunze of Flinn Works—acting as a representative of a funding organization…[read on]
Spartacus Chetwynd was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2012, and shortly after took the liberty of renaming themselves as Marvin Gaye Chetwynd…[read on]
“Work, hard, intensive work that takes up all your brain and nerves, is the greatest pleasure in life”—or so Rosa Luxemburg would have us believe…[read on]
Paintings and collages by the Munich-born artist Thomas Eggerer that are presently on view at Capitain Petzel bracket the rich history of the site…[read on]
The 15th Dakar Biennale, ‘The Wake,’ takes place in the Ancien Palais de Justice near the west-most point of the continent. Completed just prior to French decolonization in 1958…[read on]
From fables to art historical allegories, Sophie Reinhold’s sources of inspiration are eclectic and often informed by the semiotics of power. Formal parallels between Reinhold’s work…[read on]
In thinking about what makes something—or someone—alien, the question of perspective is central. The differentiation between “native” and “alien” ultimately concerns the side of the line on which one falls…[read on]
