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.
Material & Sculpture
Articles exploring sculpture, material processes, and works where the physical substance of the medium shapes the meaning of the piece.
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.
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.
When External Rules Become Internal Convictions
Umrian Gallery presents Soft Power, a group show by Aziya, Bartoníčková, Roztočilová and Šáteková on how power lives inside routine.
Nari Ward Revisits Haile Selassie’s 1963 UN Speech Through Found Materials
An independent review of Nari Ward's Until That Day at DESTE Foundation's Slaughterhouse Project Space on Hydra, on view through Oct 31, 2026.
Roland Reiter Turns Salvaged Vehicle Parts Into Bodies That Refuse a Name
Read our independent review of Roland Reiter’s No matter what it is, but it matters what it could be at Neue Galerie Graz. Exploring sculpture, vehicle parts and posthumanism in Graz.
Daria Maiier and Sofiia Yesakova Turn Violence Into a Ceremony
Read our independent art analysis of Daria Maiier and Sofiia Yesakova at ROAM projects in Berlin. Exploring violence, ritual and materiality.
Maija Fox Leaves Fingerprints on a Material Built to Have None
A Conversation between Ellery and Maija Fox in the OUTPOST courtyard about her exhibition As the sap rises in Norwich: cast aluminium, Baltic granite, and the labour of the workshop.
What a Mountain Gives Up When You Dig a Tunnel Through It
Review of TRANSFER Exhibition at Kulturforum Laßnitzhaus in Deutschlandsberg, where six artists respond to the Koralm Tunnel through archaeology and democracy.
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Ruins That Keep Growing
Musée d'art de Joliette presents Patrick Bérubé's (Ce)pendant, where mycelium, bronze, and silk stage ruins that are still forming. Through September 7, 2026.
Tsvetomira Borisova Suspends an Ancient Gesture Without Resolving it
Read our independent art review of Tsvetomira Borisova's A Hot Day at lo3eto, Vetren Dol, Bulgaria. Exploring myth, fertility and ceramic form.
Too Big for a Living Room, Too Intimate for a Museum
An independent review of Signal V, A Selection of Objects and Installations from the Robert Runták Collection at Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, through 24 September 2026.
Sebastian Scholz Keeps Building the Room He Never Left
An independent review of Sebastian Scholz's ludo at Global International, Vienna, where objects, drawings and materials return to the logic of childhood play.
Jaakko Myyri Gives the Birds Back Their Silo
Catapult reviews White Nights at AaltoSiilo in Oulu, where six artists read Alvar Aalto’s former cellulose silo through steel, AI systems, and memories of labor. Curatorial text by Jaakko Myyri.
ENESS Turns an Old ATM Into a Confession Booth for the Algorithm.
An independent review of Nimrod Weis's HPATM at FUTUREJUICE, part of Automation Bias during Illuminate Adelaide, on view through 30 August 2026.
Agnieszka Topolska Keeps a Crushed Water Bottle Under Glass Like Evidence
Exhibition review of Agnieszka Topolska’s Call It Fate, Call It Karma at Galeria Skala in Poznań, featuring a crushed water bottle and cast reliefs.
A Sculpture No One Is Allowed to Enter, Repaired by Everyone Anyway
This review documents Reparaturgesellschaft, a group exhibition featuring eight artists at the Wewerka Pavilion, which ran through August 2, 2026.
What We See, What Looks Back at Us at Emergency Space, Paris
Read our review of the group show What We See, What Looks Back at Us at Emergency Space, Paris, on the mutual gaze between object and viewer. Curated by Egor Miroshnichenko