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 […]
Knife Game with the Invisible Hand
Place your hand on the table, spread your fingers, take a knife, and stab— as fast as you can—into the spaces in between. No risk, no fun. In his multimedia exhibition at Bildraum 01, Michael Heindl opens up a space for action in which the meaning of things can be reinterpreted as part of economic, […]
ELEGIA
The central scene of W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), directed by Dušan Makavejev, takes place in the shared apartment of two female comrades. One evening, they host a touring Soviet ice-skating champion. During a heated debate on the emancipation of love and sexuality, the wall of the room suddenly gives way under the force […]
to undo, to crumble, to vanish
Laureta Hajrullahu, in her video-based practice and immersive installations, draws on speculation, digital folklore, and the emotional residues of online life. She approaches identity as an entity in a constant state of editing, compression, translation, and measurement according to algorithmic architectures. Hers is a borderland practice: she grew up in Preshevë, a town at the […]
i don’t know how, but it grew from me
In her solo exhibition ‘i don’t know how, but it grew from me’, Isabella Covert presents a pulsating laboratory of bodily excess. Drawing from feminist posthuman theory, the work in the exhibition challenges current notions of reproduction, gender, gestational labor, and family structures, suggesting the potentialities within alternative synthetic reimaginings of the body. Kinetically writhing […]
Transylvanian Painting Today
Transylvania has long been considered the cultural centre of both the Hungarian and Romanian nations. Its extraordinarily diverse heritage was created by religious tolerance, pioneer settlers and the successive influence of the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire and later the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the 12th century, the Saxons founded seven historically significant fortified towns, […]