SPINE BOUNDARY
SPINE BOUNDARY (2025), a sculpture crafted from a discarded horse collar, embodies the absent presence of the body and evokes memories tied to a fading way of life. Through the absence of physical form, it reflects both human and animal bodies retreating into shared oblivion, while contemplating the displacement of traditional agriculture by industrialization. What […]
Swampy Alliance
The paintings of Štěpán Brož open a passageway into landscapes sensed somewhere beyond seven mountains and seven rivers. They lead us through familiar woods, clammy marshes, and distant valleys and mountain trails that awaken the feeling we have walked them countless times before – yet we remain unsure whether this happened in reality, in a […]
Call me inherently fragile
It is believed that octopuses dream similarly to humans – a quiet stage of sleep is followed by an active stage, similar to the human REM phase. The eyeballs begin to move, involuntary tics appear, but, most spectacularly, their color also changes. The camouflage previously adopted loses its color, revealing the animal in all […]
Apostrophe
Dakota Higgins “Apostrophe” April 26 – June 7, 2025 Dakota Higgins’ debut solo exhibition, Apostrophe, positions the viewer within a collapsed theater of masculine power, familial nostalgia, and political spectacle. Named after the punctuation mark that denotes possession, absence, and address, Apostrophe interrogates the rhetorical and visual mechanics of authority and representation. At the center […]
Les historiens du futur
Continuum of memory Inviting Léo Fourdrinier to exhibit at the Site archéologique Lattara – Musée Henri Prades provides him with the ideal playground for his work. At the heart of his work is a dialogue between past, present and future, designed to shed light on our perception of contemporary and future realities. In a constant […]
Durchhalten galore! Pinturas para perros.
Perception meets Disruption: A brief conversation about life By Misal Adnan Yıldız Malte Zenses presents nine new paintings and three sculptures at Sperling’s new location at Enhuberstr. 6 in Munich-Maxvorstadt. One of them carries a warning: “- Life is brief” The titles of these paintings contain many references, from Aschenputtel (the folk tale known as […]
The Brink of Cozy
“The scirocco winds carry the finest grains of Sahara sand with them. Every drop of rain contains a pieceof Africa. Funny how that works” (Kemp in an e-mail from Italy, April 15). This daytime placed atop that nighttime. And that’s called: barter. I switched light in for the contrary. I traded composition for style. […]
This Must Be The Place
On the occasion of Various Others, BRITTA RETTBERG is pleased to present the group exhibition “This Must Be the Place” in collaboration with THE BREEDER (Athens) and RAVNIKAR (Ljubljana). Featuring works by six female artists — Nina Čelhar, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Kyriaki Goni, Caro Jost, Malvina Panagiotidi, and Helena Tahir — the exhibition examines […]
An Optimist at Heart
“The adults want to pass the promise of the promise on to their children. That may be the children’s only sure inheritance – fantasy as the only capital assuredly passable from one contingent space to another.” – Lauren Berlant In what would become his most notable work, Candide, Voltaire set out to demonstrate that optimism […]
fluid minds
Archeologies of What is Coming Next (AT) What if the future could be excavated like a ruin? What if the circuits of our machines, the architectures of our thought, and the residues of our social formations were not only evidence of where we’ve been but diagrams of what we are still becoming? In his solo-exhibition […]