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, […]
Hard Shoulders
In her Hard Shoulders exhibition, Maija Fox addresses the relationship between our culture, labour, and the individual. Her large sculptural installation is mainly constructed out of aluminium and steel and is an interaction with the gallery space and its architectural elements. Fox has been inspired by Finland’s Highway 4 and, more precisely, by a specific […]
Where do pigeons sleep?
Through visual studies of urban pigeons, Oksana Sadovenko (a Ukrainian artist living in Bratislava) addresses fundamental themes of loss of home, nomadism, and the search for identity. Her work began with an investigation into the places where pigeons sleep. This imagined “pigeon dormitory” soon became a metaphor for a safe shelter— something that, in the […]
Bodies Under Construction
KARIM BOUMJIMARBODIES UNDER CONSTRUCTIONMarch 28 – June 7, 2026 In the exhibition BODIES UNDER CONSTRUCTION presented at Møstings, artist Karim Boumjimar explores the relationship between the body, nature, and matter in a time marked by climatic and ecological changes. Starting from a simple yet radical idea – that the human body does not stand outside […]
Uprooted
Uprooted Ieva Saudargaitė DouaihiText by Ibrahim Nehme, Director of Beirut Art Centre To uproot a plant is an act of violence. Ieva Saudargaité Douaihi knows this. Before she lifts anything from the ground, she digs carefully around it, working the soil loose, reading the resistance, trying to keep intact what has taken years to form. […]
Where Do We End
Where Do We End? —Perhaps we never truly stop being: we simply continue elsewhere— There are questions that cannot be exhausted by an answer.They do not belong to the realm of solutions, but to that of persistence.They return. Sometimes as a barely perceptible thought, sometimes as a deeper tension that moves through perception and experience, […]