Candy Bassas Paints Bathers Who Never Fully Leave the Dark
Read our independent review of Candy Bassas' dancing lights at Galerie Mellies in Detmold. Exploring light, water, the figure and oil painting.
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Patrick Bérubé Puts an AI-Generated Forest Next to Real Mycelium
Explore Patrick Bérubé’s Et ainsi de suite… (And So On…) at Plein Sud, Longueuil, where mycelium, copper and AI-generated imagery examine nature, technology and time
Why Jakob Lena Knebl’s Sommerfrische at the Marmorschlössl Stayed With Us
We travelled to Bad Ischl already admiring Jakob Lena Knebl’s work. At Sommerfrische, mythology, fashion, art history and humour meet the extraordinary setting of the Marmorschlössl in an exhibition that stayed with us long after we left.
Zofia Pałucha Paints What a Three-Word Bio Leaves Out
Interview and Review of Zofia Pałucha's Mother of One at HOS Gallery, Warsaw. Motherhood, the body and the digital image, through Nov 7, 2026.
Zhang Ting Sends the Textbook Boy Off the Prescribed Path
Read our independent art analysis of Zhang Ting's TechDiumMory at TANK Shanghai. Exploring XiaoMing, counterfeit toys, painting and sculpture.
Sari Palosaari Maps Lichen onto Images of the Earliest Galaxies
Read our independent art analysis of Sari Palosaari's Substrate at Forum Box in Helsinki. Exploring lichen casts, solar panels and found metal.
Kaija Hinkula Makes Signs That Are Built to Misdirect You
An independent review of Kaija Hinkula's You Are Here at Ama Gallery, Helsinki. Its painted wayfinding signs conceal real objects that mislead.
Five Positions Measure How Fast a Body Can Be Shipped
Read our independent art analysis of Sequence for an Optimal Dispatch at aaaa nordhavn in Copenhagen. Exploring logistics, rhythm & sculpture.
Paulina Semkowicz and the Afterlife of a Painted-Over Wall
Review of Paulina Semkowicz's Residency: The Wall at Galeria S35 in Łódź, a site-specific painting on a wall whose ornament was painted over.
Amelia Woroszyl Treats Superstition as a Design Principle
Read our review of Amelia Woroszyl's Silly! Devil! at Crum Heaven in Stockholm, curated by Marianna Lomza. On talismans and decorative excess.
Niki Danai Chania Will Not Let the Lamia Close Her Eyes
Read our independent review of Niki Danai Chania's Lamiae at the Agora, Bonifacio, part of De Renava's Nimu Dormi, the third edition of the Biennale of Bonifacio, through Nov 5, 2026.
Nina Bachmann Finds the Vocabulary of the Hunt Inside Rush Hour
Read our review of Nina Bachmann's Schieben, Drücken, Treiben at Galerie Gegen & Lücke, Berlin. On painting, crowding, and rush hour pressure.
Riikka Anttonen Turns the Spinning Top Into a Machine for Metamorphosis
Read our independent review of Riikka Anttonen's Vertere at Sinne, Helsinki, with spinning-top sculptures turning Ovid's Metamorphoses into marble mosaic.
Xenia Lesniewski Hides a Leg Inside a Torn-Open Gift Box
Xenia Lesniewski and Galerie Zeller van Almsick won the Bildrecht ASTORIA Art Award 2026 at Astoria Artshow in Vienna, on view through September 13.
Eva Chenyao He's Bodies Comply Before Anyone Asks Them To
Read our independent art analysis of Eva Chenyao He's Procrustean at COLLECTA in Shanghai, exploring bodily correction, sculpture and control.
Marwa Arsanios Spends Eight Years Asking Who Land Belongs To.
An independent review of Marwa Arsanios’s five-part film cycle Who is Afraid of Ideology? at TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol in Innsbruck, on view through October 4, 2026.
Elena Adamou Finds Sacred Icons in the Weeds Nobody Names
Explore our archive review of Elena Adamou's Iconographies; Tiny Resistance, Crevices and Other Creatures at primopiano, Montesilvano (2026).
Leah Dixon Gives the Wheel a Different Inventor
Leah Dixon with Tartan Tartana at Spiritvessel in Espinavessa, curated and text by Sira Pizà, on view through September 12, 2026.