ORDO
The artistic process, the arrangement of elements, materials, and technique into a composition, lies at the heart of Christina Baumann’s first solo exhibition with Suburbia Contemporary, ORDO. The title, derived from the Latin word for order, reflects the artist’s practice of bringing these components into relation within the pictorial space. Working in layers, Baumann begins […]
Lifeworld
“The rise of the West was not made possible by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion . . . but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.” – Alex Karp, quoting Samuel Huntington, Palantir Q4 2024 shareholder letter, Feb 3, 2025 — Ian James is an artist who lives in Los […]
Cosmic Trigger – Respawn
Ernst Koslitsch works with construction-grade formwork timber — material that carries the traces of building sites, of use and discard. Cutting, layering, screwing, reshaping: these operations are not technical ends but part of a continuous process of transformation. The resulting works remain deliberately unstable. They can be dismantled, recombined, and reassembled in altered constellations. In […]
Remains — The Alchemy of Lost Memory
Remains – The Alchemy of Lost Memory is an exhibition curated by Alberto Dapporto and hosted by Associazione Barriera, on the occasion of the sixteenth edition of Mirror Project. The show is a reflection on time as it wears away, on matter as it transforms, and on the fragile trace humanity leaves behind. The exhibition […]
Rites of Affection
Karim Boumjimar’s solo exhibition brings together a striking selection of ceramic sculptures and large-scale drawings that pulse with ritualistic and sensual intensity. Completing the show is a lyrical video piece premiering at Malva. Boumjimar’s practice delves into what it means to be human: the social boundaries and hierarchies that shape us, the experiences of marginalised […]
The Gift / Das Gift
In Old Germanic, the root *geban / *giftiz meant “what was given,” “gift,” or “something given.” However, over the centuries, due to semantic drift and the language’s evolution toward euphemism, the word “Gift” underwent a transformation. The common root retains a positive connotation in English to this day. In German, meanwhile, after years of use […]
The Door is Closed, the Vent Window is Open
We step into the city and move through its streets. At a crosswalk, we are held by a red light. As we wait for it to change, our gaze drifts toward the windows of a nearby apartment building. A scene on the ground floor draws our attention: one person sits, another hangs a painting, a […]
The Shape of Life
Every human being is involved in the great socio-historical processes that take place in their country; every person is, in a certain way, entangled in the transformations of the world and its conflicts occurring in the epoch in which they live. Every human being participates in the culture of their age and is subject to […]
Lullaby Blossoms
PT | abro os olhos. pontos de luz cintilam em arco-íris pela parede do quarto; o raio de sol atravessa o cristal suspenso na janela. tento me lembrar se chorei no sonho. tenho a sensação de que sim, a vista ainda turva. you learn to love the pain you feel (1) das coisas que se […]
GARANT
Black Mirror The evening darkness, devouring window reflections, shop windows, and eventually entire houses, transforms the street with its corridors and nooks into a seamless landscape without clear boundaries. Clinging to familiar order and structure—any frame—becomes uncomfortable. The disappearance of visible borders does not guarantee an external perimeter elsewhere. A faint light slices through the […]