🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: For one week every June, Basel becomes the temporary capital of the global art world. Yet the 2026 edition of Art Basel fells different. More than a marketplace, it presents itself as a laboratory for the transformations currently shaping contemporary art: the emergence of digital native audience, …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Cao Fei is one of the most influential contemporary artists to emerge from China in the 21st century. Born 1978 in Guangzhou, she is known for her multimedia practice combining video, photography, virtual reality, installation, and digital culture. Her work explores the rapid transformation of Chinese society through …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: The 2026 Venice Biennale was meant to unfold in a minor key. Conceived by Koyo Kouoh -the first African woman to be appointed artistic director of the exhibition-it proposes a radical shift away from spectacle and towards listening, repair, intimacy and attention. In her curatorial statement, Kouoh …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Few artists have challenged the conventions of exhibition-making as radically as Huyghe. Since 1990s, he has steadily abandoned the idea of the artwork as a fixed object. Instead, he creates situations: environments inhabited by animals, algorithms, microorganisms, weather conditions, artificial intelligence, and human visitors. At Beyeler, this …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: The exhibition Matisse.1941-1954 at Grand Palais, Paris sheds light on the final years of Henri Matisse’s career. Claudine Grammont, exhibition’s curator, has realized a colossal work in bringing together more than 300 works between 1941 and 1954; paintings, drawings, cut-out gouaches, illustrated books, textiles, and stained glass, from Centre Pompidou collection and major …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: A Poetics of Intimacy, Rupture and Survival Few artists have altered the visual language of intimacy as profound as Nan Goldin. In her latest exhibition, This Will Not End Well, Goldin does more than revisit the emotional territory that made her seminal work, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a landmark: she deepens it, …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: The must-see exhibition I Dreamt of You in Colors by Otobong Nkanga opened to the public last week at MCBA Lausanne. Rather than a conventional retrospective, the exhibition is presented as a living ecosystem of forms, histories, and materials. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist Otobong Nkanga, the …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Nazlı Kok Akbas: Hello Nilbar Gures, I’d love to interview you, Nazli Kok Art Reports, Geneva, Switzerland Best regards NILBAR GURES: Hello, Where will it be published? Best regards NKA: Hello I was really pleased that you replied to my message. Thank you so much indeed…. It …
🔊 Listen to this article REACTIVATING JOHN GIORNO: THE POLITICS OF LISTENING At the moment when contemporary art is increasingly mediated by screens, speed, and spectacle, the revival of Dial-a-Poem at MAMCO Geneva, feels both disarmingly simple and conceptually urgent. Originally conceived in 1968 by John Giorno, the project proposed a radical gesture: to make …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: At Kunstmuseum Basel, Swiss Artist Marc Bauer presents Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing, a powerful exhibition that connects queer history with the emotional urgency of the present. Through monumental charcoal wall drawings, layered narratives, and raw expressive imagery, Bauer explores how identities are shaped by fear, resistance, and resilience. The works unfold …
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