The Nature of Abstraction
An exhibition in Warsaw brings together the work of Sean Scully and Stefan Gierowski. In 1945, the year that Sean Scully was born…
Tamuna Sirbiladze in Vienna
Eight years after her death, the Belvedere 21 in Vienna is organizing a retrospective of Tamuna Sirbiladze, an artist who grew up and…
Aubrey Levinthal in Berlin
Subject is a paradoxical matter in painting. What is depicted may seem to be the first thing to talk about – three figures…
Venice national pavilions
The national pavilions offer, more than the Biennale’s main exhibition ‘Foreigner Everyhwere’, the excitement of seeing a cross section of contemporary art, layered…
Venice Biennale 2024: Is It about Art or the Maker?
Visiting the Venice Biennale’s main exhibition Foreigners Everywhere means encountering many different conceptions of art making – or safer would be to just…
CAHH opens in Valencia
Should there ever be the need for an artist who can envision the apocalypse, Mat Collishaw would probably be the right man to…
Lia Kazakou in Thessaloniki
It has been eight years since Lia Kazakou presented a solo exhibition in her hometown of Thessaloniki. While her choice of motifs has…
Caroline Walker in The Hague
The more than twenty paintings in “Windows,” London-based painter Caroline Walker’s first solo show at a museum, depict women engaged in various kinds…
Eeva-Leena Eklund
I wonder if Eeva-Leena Eklund orders her pizzas because of the taste, or because of the visual patterns they provide. Throughout the years…
Listen to Your Eyes at Voorlinden
Even though he is its founder, Joop van Caldenborgh is usually not the one curating the presentations at Museum Voorlinden in The Netherlands.…
Glenn Brown in Berlin
Since his appearance on the 1990’s London art scene, Glenn Brown has been in an ongoing dialogue with his predecessors, without being afraid…
Riga Biennial 2020
Due to the pandemic, the second edition of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) opened months later than planned, and only…
Helmut Federle in Basel
The first thing that strikes one about the six large paintings on display at the Kunstmuseum Basel and made over a span of…
Louise Bonnet in Berlin
Seeing a reproduction of Louise Bonnet’s painting The Pond (2018) on the invitation to her exhibition made me both curious and skeptical. It…
Vienna Contemporary
De Vienna Contemporary is een jaarlijkse kunstbeurs met het focus op Oost-Europa. De editie van 2019 was goed om ons eraan te herinneren…
Riga Biennial 2018
In her opening speech, the curator of the Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art, Katerina Gregos, pointed to our busy and stressed ways of…
Tales of Transformation, Venice Biennale
During the opening days of the Venice Biennale, in a classic hotel on the Grand Canal, U.S. artist Mark Bradford was reflecting on…
It’s a Joke! Ceal Floyer in Bonn
In ‘Ceal Floyer, a Handbook’, published on the occasion of an exhibition in the Kunstmuseum Bonn in 2015/16, a text about Ceal Floyer’s…
A Kind of Escape. Peter Doig in Basel
After the work of Peter Doig was exhibited in the 1990s, a lot of young painters started to paint ‘Peter Doig-like’. Apparently he…