“Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning” is the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective in the United States, spanning more than 50 years of her remarkable career. The exhibition features a selection of works produced from 1968 through the present, including videos, drawings, photographs, and major installations and performances—many of which have been revisited and reconfigured by the artist on the occasion of this exhibition. “Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning” also presents extensive corresponding archival materials. “Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning” is organized by Ana Janevski, Curat ..read more

Dear readers, Think of reading as a way of adding more words to our vocabularies, and many more worlds to our imaginaries. As a tool to permanently rescue and restore narratives. As a chance to reclaim time, space, silence, and critical distance, and ponder how language, when it moves past the compulsive binaries that violence imposes upon it, can hold multiverses together. Language, otherness, hope, desire, and exile are recursive words in this issue. In her essay “To Write in a Foreign Language,” 1 Etel Adnan recalls how, as a child, she tried to learn Arabic by copying the exercises from an ..read more

With Nairy Baghramian, Huma Bhabha, Tacita Dean, David Hammons, Robin Coste Lewis, Paul Pfeiffer, and Jessica Rankin. Curated by Caroline Bourgeois, Chief Curator of the Pinault Collection, with Julie Mehretu, the exhibition brings together a selection of more than fifty works, between painting and printmaking, that she produced over the timespan of 25 years, including several of the artist’s recent paintings from 2021-2024. Presented over two floors of Palazzo Grassi, the exhibition unites 17 works from the Pinault Collection, as well as loans from international museums and private collection ..read more

What is Onsen Confidential? Onsen Confidential is a hybrid city-wide gallery share and natural hot spring retreat / conference. The project is meant to bring together like-minded gallerists in a spirit of collaboration and cooperation and to provide a friendly introduction to the unique context of the contemporary art world of Tokyo. Onsen Confidential was inspired by precedents such as the Milwaukee International, Paramount Ranch, Condo, OKEY DOKEY, Friend of a Friend, the Villa Projects (Villa Warsaw, Villa Reykjavik and Villa Toronto), non-profit initiatives such as NADA (New Art Dealers Al ..read more

“Acts of Resistance” will bring together works by over 16 international artists and collectives who are using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional modes of protest photography. This exhibition addresses different approaches to feminist practice which have emerged over the past decade, a period which is discussed as having generated a “fourth wave” of feminism. The show explores the extent to which this relates to feminisms across different regions and begins to map common concerns including expanding intersectionality, transnational solidarity, and the use of social media and di ..read more

I often find myself wanting to get as far from the present as possible. Recently I’ve been obsessed with the extreme past. People of 20,000 years ago possessed creative and capable minds—the same as ours, apparently—and must have made countless works of art and culture, but because all of it dates from before the invention of writing, it’s utterly lost. Why do I want to escape the present? Because of the feeling of dread that I’m living through the end of something. In response, I feel an urge rising, like a psychic undertow, to pare everything away. This sometimes sharpens into the desire to ..read more

Ersilia is an imaginary city. During the past three years it has transformed through the voices and the stories of the artists who have created its outline, by imagining places, inhabitants, and living conditions. Now this city materialises in the halls of MACTE, as it takes different shapes and languages to welcome ever-changing communities. Ersilia is a house and a forest, a haven and a school, a river and a library, a cinema and a planetary, a bar and a phantasmatic palace; but more than anything, Ersilia is a place for stories, rituals, and imaginaries capable of creating other worlds. The ..read more

In line with its annual theme Heartbeats Rising, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich sets out to explore the relationship between feelings of ecstasy and the fear of catastrophe through its first exhibition of the year, “Bliss, bliss, bliss.” In collaboration with artists James Bantone, Laura Gozlan, Leon Höllhumer, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, P. Staff, and Chin Tsao, Bliss, bliss, bliss addresses the impact that the experience of a world in decline has on our ability to feel and to desire. It is an open secret that the world is currently undergoing a process that can be described as catastrophic without ..read more

White Out – Between Telling and Listening is an installation by Esther Shalev-Gerz, who offers us a portrait of a woman between two cultures, places, and timeframes. Acquired by MCBA for its collection following the 2012 retrospective devoted to Esther Shalev-Gerz (*1948, Vilnius, Lithuania; lives and works in Paris), White Out is a piece the artist created at the invitation of Stockholm’s Historiska Museet. Learning that in Sami, the language spoken by the Sami people, the word “war” does not exist, and that Sweden has not been in a war for 200 years, Esther Shalev-Gerz began resear ..read more

Scherer’s practice is multidisciplinary and diverse, encompassing figurative sculptures in aluminum and pink onyx, stylized paintings, and mixed-media works. Identity, as well as the human figure and its representation, are focal points in his practice, which he expands on in “Imagine” by depicting archetypical human figures, marking a distinct shift away from the celebrity images that are common to his earlier work. Scherer oscillates between gravity and lightness, finding a balance between the two poles in “Imagine” that at once considers the contemporary human experience, and transcends the ..read more