Tique

20/05/2026

My work moves between documentary observation, conceptual thinking and image-making rooted in atmosphere and stories. This approach can be applied to anything I do. I’m drawn to incompleteness and to the tension between what is revealed and what remains unresolved. The idea of the fragment is central to the way I think – how individual fragments, when placed next to one another, can create an entirely new narrative or emotional meaning. That’s why I like to think of myself more as a collector than a traditional photographer.

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Edita Liessner

Read the interview here: https://tique.art/interviews/six-questions/edita-liessner

03/05/2026

“The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas, are specifically addressed to man.”

So has written John Berger in his essay “Why Look at Animals?”. Today, in the reality of climate collapse and mass production, addressing animal topic has gained a new sense of urgency.

Tique has selected six books on the animal topic. Some of them reflect on the damages of the Anthropocene, with nonhuman animals being its primary victims. Others focus on futuristic visions, nonhuman perspective and agency. Each contributes to a vision of a kinder future – multi-species coexistence, where human is placed among, not above, the animal network.

→ A Bestiary of the Anthropocene by Disnovation.org & Nicolas Nova
Published by Set Margins'

→ Animal Touch by Eva Kotátková
Published by Artmap

→ Enfleshed - Ecologies of Entities and Beings by Kristiina Koskentola & Marjolein van der Loo
Published by Onomatopee

→ with a Bird, A Reader on Avian Kinship edited by Marjolein van der Loo
Published by Onomatopee

→ Entanglements: An Anthology of Posthuman Tales
Published by Posthuman Press

→ Curatorial Guidelines. Animal, Plants and Art Exhibitions by G.C. Heemskerk & Jessica Ullrich

Now on Tique: Among Animals. Six publications on interspecies relationships

Read the article here: https://tique.art/printed-matter/collection/among-animals

01/05/2026

“The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas, are specifically addressed to man.”

So has written John Berger in his essay “Why Look at Animals?”. Today, in the reality of climate collapse and mass production, addressing animal topic has gained a new sense of urgency.

Tique has selected six books on the animal topic. Some of them reflect on the damages of the Anthropocene, with nonhuman animals being its primary victims. Others focus on futuristic visions, nonhuman perspective and agency. Each contributes to a vision of a kinder future – multi-species coexistence, where human is placed among, not above, the animal network.

Now on Tique: Six books on animals

Read the article here: https://tique.art/printed-matter/collection/six-books-on-animals

“The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas, are specifically addressed to man.” So has written John Berger in his essay “Why Look at Animals?”. Today, in the reality of climate collapse and mass production, addressing animal topic has gained a new sense of ur...

26/04/2026

What Can We Not Think? is an exhibition by Dominika Łabądź on sensitivity to the world of capitalist ruins – both ecological and social. It resembles a ruderal garden: a site where disturbances wrought by human activity give rise to new ecosystems. Here, plants, animals, organisms, and matter coalesce into dynamic networks of relations that operate beyond the limits of human perception.

Now on Tique: Dominika Łabądź – What Can We Not Think?

Read the article here: https://tique.art/exhibitions/dominika-labadz-what-can-we-not-think

15/04/2026

I would describe my practice as a research based exploration of feminine culture, often connected to old dutch traditions. I work with objects, installations, and text to reflect on practices that have long structured women’s lives, especially forms of domestic labour and craft that are often overlooked. For me, materials act as carriers of knowledge, shaped by use, time, and transmission, so I pay close attention to everyday actions and traditions to reveal the cultural and ritual meaning they hold. Archival research plays an important role in my work, as it allows me to uncover hidden histories and reinterpret them through a contemporary feminist lens, often developing speculative narratives from these findings. Coming from a background in contemporary jewelry, I am interested in questioning ideas of beauty, value, and gender, while bringing together personal experience and collective memory. In my work, material and body become closely connected, where objects hold traces of memory and small, intimate gestures transform into shared rituals that invite reflection on care, heritage, and embodied female legacies.

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Alma Teer

Read the interview here: https://tique.art/interviews/six-questions/alma-teer

08/04/2026

With my sculptural artistic practice, I aim to create spaces, images and stories in which the power of objects unfolds, so that the human and the non-human touch one another in resonance, and this touch a space for contemplation unfolds. In a broader sense, I see myself as a still-life artist. In my studio practice, I arrange and compose in relation to discarded (waste-)objects, mostly everyday household items, which I salvage from piles of trash on the side of the road and carry with me. I do feel overwhelmed by socio-ecological issues of mass consumption and pollution and thematise this by addressing exhaustion, exploitation, injury, response-ability, appreciation, care and vulnerability.

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Flurina Sokoll

Read the interview here: https://tique.art/interviews/six-questions/flurina-sokoll

06/04/2026

The Living Library (2024–2026) was a transdisciplinary project developed at the Bio Design Lab of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Over the course of two years, it fostered practice-based learning focused on locally sourced raw materials within a 50-kilometre radius around the academy, experimental making, and regenerative modes of production.

The project was a hybrid and continually evolving ecosystem. It brought together a physical archive showing material samples, tools, processes, and workshop artefacts, and a digital archive featuring interactive maps, research, and material documentation. Guided by the principles of compostability, locality, and sustainability, the project followed ecological rhythms of seeding, growing, harvesting, and decay. Students, researchers, and local practitioners collaborated to map regional resources, harvest and transform bio-based materials, and investigate their lifecycles from origin to decomposition.

Now on Tique: Living Library

Read the article here: https://tique.art/interviews/artistic-research/living-library

The Living Library is a transdisciplinary research project exploring how locally sourced, sustainable materials and design methods can reshape artistic practice and knowledge production.

04/04/2026

Wedge presents new works by Dutch artist Finn Theuws at SpazioA. Expanding his existing practice of sculpture and installation, the exhibition engages themes of domestic intimacy, The Weird, and (q***r) phenomenology.

Now on Tique: Finn Theuws – Wedge

Read the article here: https://tique.art/exhibitions/finn-theuws-wedge

01/04/2026

My artistic practice is rooted in exploring feminist themes through alternative narratives and magical thinking. I often begin with personal experiences, which expand and transform as they intersect with broader societal challenges, ultimately evolving into works that aspire to connect with audiences. Drawing inspiration from multiple writers and thinkers like Ursula K. Le Guin’s ideas of the carrier bag and gathering or the hatchery of Jennifer Bloomer, I reimagine knowledge and storytelling to challenge conventional structures.

Textiles are at the heart of my practice. I embrace their European historical association with femininity and the domestic sphere, using this tension to craft layered narratives about what it means to be a woman today. My works often take the form of colorful, intricate tapestries accompanied by prose or poetry, where material and text form a dialogue. Art and writing are my chosen tools to weave together stories, materials, and ideas.

Tique asks six questions to an artist about their work and inspiration.
This week: Sam Druant

Read the interview here: https://tique.art/interviews/six-questions/sam-druant

30/03/2026

Where Things Hold: Sculpture as a Response to Everyday ‘Making-Do’ in Informal Urban Environments is a research project by Danying Yu that examines how sculpture-making can respond to and reveal the transient spatial expressions of everyday improvisation within informal urban settings, translating these observations into sculptural installations that explore resilience, adaptation, and vernacular ingenuity.

Now on Tique: Danying Yu – Where Things Hold: Sculpture as a Response to Everyday ‘Making-Do’ in Informal Urban Environments

Read the article here: https://tique.art/interviews/artistic-research/danying-yu-where-things-hold-sculpture-as-a-response-to-everyday-making-do-in-informal-urban-environments