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review Sallisa Rosa, Supernova, view of the exhibition at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Fabio Souza, courtesy of the artist and MAM Rio de Janeiro

Playing with Soil, Recoding Earth, and Disrupting Hierarchies: 9 artists from Latin America in the Expanded Field of Ceramics

Alicja Głuszek Jul 31, 2026
essay Vasantha Yogananthan, from the "A Myth of Two Souls" project, ©Vasantha Yogananthan

What the Camera Cannot Capture: Five Artists Expanding Photography

Grażyna Siedlecka Jul 31, 2026
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Lucim 111 – The Polish Village That Became a Work of Art. Bogdan Chmielewski and the Overlooked Rural Avant-Garde of Social Art

Jędrzej Chmielewski Jul 31, 2026
review Lily Glass, An Hourglass for Every Hour at the Doctor with Dad, Quantifying Care, 2025. Courtesy of the artist

Care-Clay: On Making, Holding and Sustaining

Klara Bender Jul 31, 2026
artist in focus Morta Jonynaitė, portrait. Photo: Martynas Norvaišas

Morta Jonynaitė. Threads of Connection 

Elena Wise Jul 31, 2026
essay Sumakshi Singh, Permanent Address, India Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, 2026. Image courtesy: photographer Andrea Avezzú

Soft Monuments: How Sumakshi Singh Reimagines Architecture Through Thread

Sana Krishna Jul 31, 2026
Interview View of Fabio Frasca's home with the work from his collection by Fabian Herkenhoener called Untitled (A body enlightened...), 220x220 cm. ©️ Danilo Donzelli Photography

A Collection That Sparks Curiosity. In Conversation with Fabio Frasca

Marta Wróblewska Jul 31, 2026
Interview Mire Lee, Installation view of The (PSYCHO)SOMATIC ZONE, Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne_Rhône-Alpes, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and IAC. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Rudely Alive. In Conversation with Mire Lee

Maggie Kuzan Jul 31, 2026
Interview

On the Hand, Labour and Productive Failure. An Art Guide into Material Time

Patrycja Poznańska Jul 31, 2026
review Do Ho Suh, Nest/s, 2024, tkanina poliestrowa, stal nierdzewna, 410,1 x 375,4 x 2104,5 cm © Do Ho Suh. Dzięki uprzejmości artysty i Lehmann Maupin, Nowy Jork, Seul i Londyn. Zdjęcie: Jeon Taeg Su

In the Memory of Home. Permanence and Fragility in the Works of Do Ho Suh and Daria Koltsova.

Paulina Mamot Feb 27, 2026
Interview Letters from Wolf Street, 2025, dir. Arjun Talwar, film still. Courtesy of the director.

Filming Another Europe. In Conversation with Arjun Talwar, Director of “Letters from Wolf Street”.

Jelena Sofronijevic Feb 26, 2026
review "Down Deep" exhibition view, photo by Tomasz Maryks. Courtesy of PGS in Sopot.

The Ocean and Its Ruins. “Down Deep: Living Seas, Living Bodies” at PGS Sopot.

Malgorzata Perigot-Grygielewicz Feb 11, 2026
review Maksud Ali Mondal, Garden of Heterotopia, 2022. Courtesy of the artist

Porous Interventions. 7 Artists on Ruins and the Politics of Openness.

Aleksandra Lisek Jan 30, 2026
review Karolina Gembara, from the Mind of Winter series (pictures from family archive). Courtesy of the artist

To Reinvent, Rebuild, Reimagine. 7 Artists Working with Remains of Stories.

Grażyna Siedlecka Jan 30, 2026
essay Barnabás Neogrády, Kiss, PAD, Segregated neighborhoud fieldwork, Tatabánya. Courtesy of the artist and PAD Foundation

The Weight of Industrial Nostalgia. What Remains of the Working Landscape.

Diána Berecz Jan 30, 2026
essay Still from "Missa Echologica" (2021), video, choral work, 13′. Text: Anna Zilahi, music: Laura Szári, camera: Gergely Ofner, sound: Ferenc Juhász, performers: Varsányi Szirének.

Activating Memory through Ecological Ruins. On the Work of Monika Gabriela Dorniak, Nona Inescu, Laura Szári, and Anna Zilahi.

Rebeka Erdélyi Jan 30, 2026
review Magdalena Lazar, Two Stories About Communal Living, digital photography, steel, 2023, photo by Patryk Ogorzalek. Courtesy of the artist

Artist in Focus: Magdalena Lazar.  Material Tensions and Sensory Encounter.

Jan 30, 2026
essay UKI, film science fiction przedstawiający alternatywną rzeczywistość, Shu Lea Cheang, 2023. Kadry z filmu. Produkcja: Shu Lea Cheang i Jürgen Brüning. Dzięki uprzejmości LAS Art Foundation.

To Inscribe in the Ruins. Mimicry and Malware in the Work of TJ Shin and Shu Lea Cheang.

Eunha Chang Jan 30, 2026
essay Eva Jospin, Exhibition view, Grottesco, 2025, Grand Palais, Paris. © Benoît Fougeirol. Courtesy of the artist and Grand Palais. © Adagp, Paris, 2025

Daydreaming and Sleepwalking Among the Cardboard Ruins. Eva Jospin's Grotesque Mindscapes.

Alicja Głuszek Jan 30, 2026
review Karolina Breguła, kadr z filmu Dust, instalacja 5-kanałowa, 45 min, 2019. Dzięki uprzejmości artystki.

Artist in Focus: Karolina Breguła. Where Structures Fade.

Timika Sukhai Jan 30, 2026
Interview IN-RUINS residency 2025, Steffi Stouri, The Land as a Witness, Dauna Necropolis of Pietra Caduta, Canosa di Puglia. Courtesy of SABAP BAT and Foggia Superintendency, Archeofuturo APS, and the artist. Photo by Giuseppe Di Liberto

Beyond Ruins. An Art Guide into Memory and Care.

Patrycja Poznańska Jan 30, 2026
review Mihai Dragolea, personal archive

Mihai Dragolea: A Nomadic Filmmaker Who Refuses Invisibility.

Alex Mirutziu Jan 30, 2026
review Sátántangó, 1994, dir. Béla Tarr. Courtesy of Arbelos Films.

Where Things End. 7 Films on Ruins and the Afterlife.

Berenika Balcer Jan 30, 2026
essay Prezentacja zestawu do herbaty Forbidden Vernaculars. Zdjęcie: Amadeja Smrekar. Dzięki uprzejmości Krater Collective.

Presence in Absence. Memory, Debris, and Radical Potential.

Paulina Mamot Jan 30, 2026
essay THE DELUSION, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, 2025. Na zlecenie i wyprodukowane przez Serpentine Arts Technologies. © Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, fotografia: Hugo Glendinning.

Pure Pleasure Seekers. Polymorphous Intimacies as Ecofeminist Praxis.

Maggie Kuzan Jan 30, 2026
essay Ozuma Patrick Chidiebube, Wired Differently, klawiatura komputerowa z recyklingu i części pokrewne, 40 x 40 x 12, 2024. Dzięki uprzejmości artysty.

When the Internet Starts to Rot. Art, Energy and the Slow Death Of The Web.

Favour Amoye Jan 30, 2026
Interview Photo by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo, KAI art centre, exhibition view: On fragile Grounds. Sirje Runge and light. Courtesy of KRUUS Collection

Collection KRUUS: (Re)discovering the Local in the Context of the Global. In conversation with Epp and Martin Kruus.

Marta Wróblewska Jan 30, 2026
Interview Maciej Zdanowicz, Tabula Salina. Courtesy of the artist

“Does the world still remember us?” In Conversation with Maciej Zdanowicz on Art as Shelter.

Klara Bender Jan 21, 2026
review Daniel Spoerri, "Labyrinthine Wall Path", 1996 / 1998, H: 50 cm surface area: 60 x 40 m, stone, cement, grass. Courtesy of the Fondazione Giardino Spoerri.

Where Energies Meet. The Garden of Daniel Spoerri and The Tarot Garden by Niki de Saint Phalle.

Marta Wróblewska Sep 02, 2025
essay Prospect Cottage, photo by Mark Wordy.

A Garden Without A Horizon. Derek Jarman's Modern Nature.

Aleksandra Pytel Jul 28, 2025
Interview David Hockney drawing La Grande Cour, Normandy, 2019..Photo credit_ Jean-Pierre GonÁalves de Lima.© David Hockney. Courtesy of Fondation Louis Vuitton

Hockney's Unmitigated Joy. In Conversation with Magdalena Gemra, from the curatorial team behind “David Hockney 25”

Julia Gorlewska Jul 28, 2025
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What Do We Do In the Gardens? 5 Photographers Reframing the Garden.

Grażyna Siedlecka Jul 28, 2025
review Gabriella Hirst, Body Garden for Ellipse and Ellipsis at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, London, 2025. Photo by Eva Herzog. Courtesy of the artist

Sowing Complexities. Gabriella Hirst and the Quiet Politics of Gardens.

Jagoda Witkowska Jul 28, 2025
essay Prune Nourry, Mater Earth. Photo by Justin Weiler © Prune Nourry / ADAGP. Courtesy of the artist

A Mother, A Garden. She Rises from the Soil.

Klara Bender Jul 28, 2025
essay Kelly Akashi, Heirloom, 2022. Lost-wax cast and wire-brushed bronze, 101⁄4 x 45 x 1051⁄2. Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery. Photo: Paul Salveson. Courtesy of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Between Bloom and Decay. The Garden as a Radical Commons.

Joanna Pottle Jul 28, 2025
artist in focus Detail of an installation In Times When Everything Else Seems More Important (2024–2025) by Eike Eplik. View from a solo show In Times When Everything Else Seems More Important by Eike Eplik, Kogo Gallery. Courtesy

Eike Eplik. Gardener of micro-worlds of care.

Maria Ilieva Jul 28, 2025
essay Frida Kahlo Museum, Sebastián Monsalve, 2019. Courtesy of Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli

Frida Kahlo´s Garden of Earthly Delights. A Living Canvas of the Artist´s Philosophy.

Alicja Głuszek Jul 28, 2025
essay Tuấn Mami, Vietnamese Immigrating Garden, Documenta 15th, Photo by Le Hoang Nam. Courtesy of the artist

Growing Home. How Diasporic Gardens Keep Culture Alive.

Sonia Witak Jul 28, 2025
film The Tsugua Diaries © 2021 O Som e a Fúria, Uma Pedra no Sapato, a film by Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes.jpg

Where We Are Planted. Four Films on Gardens Under Pressure.

Berenika Balcer Jul 28, 2025
artist in focus Akyute, Photo Microbial Fuel Cell, Biodesign Investigation. Photo_ Saye (Interview) 2020. Courtesy of the artists. Copyright SAYE.

Akyute. Generating Natural Connections.

Maria Ilieva Jul 28, 2025
artist in focus Lucia Monge, Mientras una Hoja Respira (While a Leaf Breathes) 2023 Installation of sculptures made with biopolymers, mycelium casts, bacterial cellulose, eggshell composites, handmade abaca paper, reed, cotton and natural dyes: madder, weld, logwood, dyer's polypore and red pine. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

Lucia Monge. Moving, Breathing, Feeling. Gardens in Motion.

Maria Sarna Jul 28, 2025
essay Graham Bell Tornado: Ljubljana P.I.N.Q. Slavnostno odprtje parka, performans Povezovalne črte: spremljati skrb na presečišču feminizma in ekologije, mednarodna konferenca, Krater, Mesto žensk, 26. april 2024 https://mestozensk.org/sl/dogodek/terenski-obisk-kraterja

Rising From the Mud. Queer and Feminist Approaches to Ecological Emergency.

Maggie Kuzan Jul 28, 2025
essay "Strange Foreign Bodies" by Zufit Simon. Photo credit: “antistatic festival” in Sofia (left: Zufit Simon, right: Cary Shiu)

Careful, Lilith – Mammoths Kick When Startled. Reflections on art, power, and other species of cultural discomfort.

Rosana Lukauskaitė Jul 28, 2025
Interview

Growth, Fading, Renewal. An Art Guide on the Cycles of Creative Life.

Patrycja Poznańska Jul 28, 2025
review Hélio Oiticica, Parangolés, 1964.

To regain the sense of self. Bioenergy and the artists’ way of processing emotions through the body.

Alicja Głuszek Feb 28, 2025
review Izabela Chamczyk, Toxic. Photo courtesy of the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, photo: Bartosz Górka.

Meanings that transcend language. Profiles of international artists addressing mental health through their work.

Aleksandra Lisek Jan 29, 2025
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Hysterical Women and Their Husbands’ Wives. On a Certain Type of Woman in the Art World.

Anna Tomczak Jan 29, 2025
artist in focus Michalina Kacperak, Untitled #3 (Under the paper), from the ‘Soft Spot’ series, 2021–2024

Michalina Kacperak. An artist glimpsing into memory, family, and personal trauma.

Patrycja Poznańska Jan 29, 2025
Interview

Loneliness in the Arts: A Guide for Artists. Leaders, curators, and artists share their strategies for living and creating.

Patrycja Rozwora Jan 29, 2025
review Sayuri Ichida, Absentee #213 (2021) and #181 (2020)

A space for us to meet again. 9 photographers dealing with loss and grief.

Grażyna Siedlecka Jan 29, 2025
review

Lessons on a good life. 10 film-based ways providing a fresh perspective on self-care.

Joanna Łuniewicz Jan 29, 2025
essay Openverse. "Susan Sontag Book: 'After the event has ended, the picture will still exist, conferring on the event a kind of immortality (and importance) it would never otherwise have enjoyed' by Jikatu. Accessed September 22, 2024.

Exhibiting Care in Critical Times. The impact of war zones and conflicts on the arts community.

Joanna Pottle Jan 29, 2025
Interview Goshka Macuga, Born From Stone, 2024. Photo: Jason Alden.

Knitting together the past and the present. In conversation with Goshka Macuga.

Maggie Kuzan Jan 29, 2025
Interview "Mind Moving", photo by Cristina Matei.

To look beyond the psychiatric diagnosis. In conversation with Alexandra Bălășoiu.

Alex Mirutziu Jan 29, 2025
review Ali Cherri, How I Am Monument, installation view, Secession 2024, photo Sophie Pölzl.

Examining the material’s history. An exhibition at Secession. Ali Cherri, mud, and bronze as a metaphor of violence.

Niccolò Lucarelli Jan 29, 2025
Interview Guillermina Baiguera, "Medium" exhibition. Photo by Ana Pontiggia.

The tangible and the emotional resonance. In conversation with Guillermina Baiguera.

Alicja Głuszek Jan 29, 2025
review Silent concert, 2024, metal, wool, installation shot from Kunsthalle Praha.

Between bloodlines, relationships, and territorial boundaries. Chiharu Shiota at Kunsthalle Praha.

Alex Mirutziu Jan 29, 2025
Interview AWANLE AYIBORO HAWA ALI, Suit, the Mirror & Liberia, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 127 x 177 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery 1957.

Bringing forward stories of African womanhood in a patriarchal society. In conversation with Awanle Ayiboro Hawa Ali.

Alicja Stąpór Jan 29, 2025