Burning Stones
On entering the exhibition space you are immediately confronted with a sweating belly projected wide onto the wall. Droplets of sweat exude from the pores around the navel. You only notice after a while that your own body is getting warm – and that two heating devices are in operation on this side of the […]
Lunch? I Said LAUNCH!
“How has your historical research been going since 2022, when Russia attacked several targets in Ukraine?”, Iden Sungyoung Kim asks me. We had both started to focus on the 1960s, on nuclear testing, Cold War international relations and their brutal consequences, at around the same time. In 2018, our interest seemed to belong to a […]
Averaged Profile Hallucination
What is the place of the body and the human in today’s virtual landscapes? How do image-making and image-altering tools affect and transform the value of bodies and human experience? These are the questions that run through Francisco González-Rosas’s installation. Entering the room to the right, we encounter a large graphic print-out on the wall […]
Comedy
Reed Still’s exhibition excavates the maintenance labour that structures basic human existence, turning it into a comedy of class relations in which those without property are trapped within an infinite cycle of temporary arrangements. In a passageway on the ground floor, a professionally framed document is displayed on the wall. The Sublet, as it is […]
Weather Forecast
Moisture Melts. Heat Dissolves In classical Cantonese cuisine, lo foh tong (“old-fire soup”) – a long-simmered soup found across southern China and Southeast Asia – offers a sensory way into the tropicality of the Asian South. Inside the pot, slow, rolling convection gently breaks down gelatin, fat, aromatic oils and alkaloids from meat, bones, dried […]
Rachel Monosov: The Flag Bearers
In her solo exhibition The Flag Bearers, Rachel Monosov draws inspiration from the Surrealist imagery of Edgar Ende (1901–1965). The exhibition takes its title from Edgar Ende’s Die Fahnenträger (1931), one of three paintings which the artist then brings into the present, extracting their symbolic content through sculptural installations and performance. Rachel Monosov looks to […]
Every Day, Every Week Another Historical Image Floods Our Screens
On entering Ezra Šimek’s installation Every Day, Every Week Another Historical Image Floods Our Screens , the eye is initially directed towards a mirror, a red curtain and a projection. An 18-minute succession of three video sequences unfolds, accompanied by a varied soundtrack mainly of Ezra Šimek speaking. In the first scene an athletic figure […]
Beyond the Facade
Kosuke Nakane’s work is an invitation to rediscover our urban habitat. His paintings translate streets and squares, houses and gardens into a reflection on the quotidian and the transient. In doing so they evade an overly familiar way of looking at painting. Kosuke Nakane’s motifs assert their three-dimensionality on the flat ground of the canvas, […]
The First Killing of a Butterfly
Even before you enter, you can see the first pair of wings. The deconstructed birds from the painting Butcher Bird guide you into the space, while the outline of a mounted butterfly rises up to the side. The title of the exhibition, The First Killing of a Butterfly, sets the tone. Next, the eye is […]
Pocket Lines
In Ruti de Vries’s animated video The Catchers (2026), several anthropomorphic figures float onto the screen one after the other. Their bodies are assembled from bulging monochromatic shapes reminiscent of tents or rocks, as well as black lines that extendt beyond the edge of the frame as arms and pbraids, suggesting a shared rootedness. They […]