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Contemporary art magazine and publishing house based in Milan

https://linkin.bio/moussemagazine/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabdL-MjbXuu8-6PJ_2yh9XIyPjGLjN9ftJuSU20LzY0E-Juj5dk6CKlOzU_aem_Fu0gK6PyWUOkV7Vg5Tbkgw Established in 2006 and publishing four issues every year, it features interviews, conversations, and essays by some of today’s most important international figures in criticism, visual arts

, and curating. Mousse is also a publishing house, devoted to imbuing every printed project with originality, care, and respect. Mousse Publishing makes books with artists, writers, galleries, biennials, and other art and cultural initiatives both public and private. Mousse Publishing also produces online content, printed ephemera, and artist editions. Instagram: - Twitter:

04/09/2026

ONLINE NOW: Franco “Bifo” Berardi (), “The Likely Termination of Human Civilization Within the Current Century,” Part 1/5

The horizon of the XXI Century is marked by the comeback of war and genocide, but also by the irreversibility of climate change, and by the psychotic turn of the global mind. As frightening as it may seem we are obliged to think and to name the possibility of the self termination of the human kind. Watch the first lecture of “The Likely Termination of Human Civilization Within the Current Century” at the link in bio.

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Conceived by Andrea Bellini and Federico Campagna (), “Agora: A Gathering of Art and Philosophy” is a free, semester-long program of English-language lectures, seminars, and one-to-one mentoring for a group of eight practicing artists and philosophers.

The recordings of the contributions from the faculty are now accessible to everyone on ’s digital platform, the 5th floor, with new releases scheduled monthly.

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Now available at agora.centre.ch:
• Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Politics & Aesthetics After Geontopower,” Part 5/5
• Franco “Bifo” Berardi, “The Likely Termination of Human Civilization Within the Current Century,” Part 1/5
• John Tresch, “Technologies of Consciousness,” Part 3/5

In this intimate and irreverent text, Annie Sprinkle (Annie Sprinkle) recalls meeting Alice Neel in 1982, when the eight...
03/09/2026

In this intimate and irreverent text, Annie Sprinkle (Annie Sprinkle) recalls meeting Alice Neel in 1982, when the eighty-two-year-old painter invited her to sit for a portrait. What begins as an unlikely encounter between a legendary artist and a young p**n performer, s*x worker, and do******ix becomes a story of trust, visibility, and mutual recognition. Through tea, laughter, fe**sh heels, and three charged painting sessions, Sprinkle reflects on Neel’s ability to look without judgment and to portray a body that was s*xual, vulnerable, political, and entirely its own.

On the occasion of Mousse 96 ~ 2006-2026: A Visual Record, the magazine’s special twentieth-anniversary issue, a selection of texts from the archive is revisited online.

Read the full article at the link in bio.

The text was originally published in “Alice Neel. I Am the Century,” the catalogue accompanying the first major retrospective in Italy dedicated to the US artist Alice Neel (1900-1984), presented by Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin.

The funeral will be held on Wednesday, September 2, at 11 a.m., Church of S. Vincenzo in Prato, Milan.
31/08/2026

The funeral will be held on Wednesday, September 2, at 11 a.m., Church of S. Vincenzo in Prato, Milan.

Floating somewhere between the exhibition space and the afterlife, “Pour Noubia”—Mohamed Bourouissa’s (Meko Epquatre) la...
08/08/2026

Floating somewhere between the exhibition space and the afterlife, “Pour Noubia”—Mohamed Bourouissa’s (Meko Epquatre) latest solo show at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich—stages a conflation of locations, each room of the two-floor exhibition tying autobiography to a broader investigation into the political, and at times historical, fabric of a given site.

Tap the link in bio to read Salomé Burstein’s (Salomé Burstein) review of “Pour Noubia” at Migros Museum, Zurich

OUT NOW: fluent: 2016–2026 Marking fluent’s tenth anniversary, this book traces the organization’s archive and includes ...
07/08/2026

OUT NOW: fluent: 2016–2026 

Marking fluent’s tenth anniversary, this book traces the organization’s archive and includes an exhaustive chronology of over 300 pages that examines its own narrative while revisiting its history.

Through materials including floorplans, graphic documentation, texts, drawings, poems, previously untranslated contents, and editorial gestures it delves into the organization’s ongoing and incomplete archive and the polyphonic nature of its histories.
 
Edited by Alex Alonso Díaz and Daniela Ruiz Moreno () and designed by (Émilie Ferrat, , and Sophie Rentien).

Get your copy at the link in bio.

04/08/2026

ONLINE NOW: Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Politics & Aesthetics After Geontopower,” Part 5/5

Watch the final lesson of Povinelli’s course, which examines political concepts in the wake of a form of governance organized by the distinction between Life and Nonlife, in the shadow of climate change and toxic capitalism.

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Conceived by Andrea Bellini and Federico Campagna (), “Agora: A Gathering of Art and Philosophy” is a free, semester-long program of English-language lectures, seminars, and one-to-one mentoring for a group of eight practicing artists and philosophers.

The recordings of the contributions from the faculty are now accessible to everyone on ’s digital platform, the 5th floor, with new releases scheduled monthly.

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Now available at agora.centre.ch:
•⁠ ⁠Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Politics & Aesthetics After Geontopower,” Part 5/5
• Franco “Bifo” Berardi, “The Likely Termination of Human Civilization Within the Current Century,” Part 1/5
• John Tresch, “Technologies of Consciousness,” Part 3/5

In her review of “Feedback. The Environments of Franco Vaccari” at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano Bozen, ...
04/08/2026

In her review of “Feedback. The Environments of Franco Vaccari” at Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano Bozen, Bolzano, Giulia Zompa (Giulia) explores the notion of feedback invoked by the exhibition’s title: a reciprocal process in which the viewer’s actions alter the system set up by the artist, and the system, in turn, returns a trace of those actions. In the exhibition’s eight reconstructed environments, the audience activates the work and, in doing so, becomes one of its materials.

Tap the link in bio to read the review.

“Ndayé Kouagou: REAL THINGS STARTS OUTSIDE” is the volume accompanying “Heaven’s Truth,” Ndayé Kouagou’s (Ndayé Kouagou)...
31/07/2026

“Ndayé Kouagou: REAL THINGS STARTS OUTSIDE” is the volume accompanying “Heaven’s Truth,” Ndayé Kouagou’s (Ndayé Kouagou) first solo exhibition in Italy, presented at Collezione Maramotti.

The project extends the French artist’s investigation into language, perception, and the instability of meaning across visual and performative registers. Through irony and wry humor, Kouagou exposes the inevitability of subjective positioning and the fragile illusion of critical distance. His practice examines how meaning is produced, destabilized, and redirected through language and performance.

At the heart of the exhibition is an ambitious new project that gives the show its title and unfolds across its opening rooms. Drawing on the structure of the photostory, it combines video, sculptural elements, and wall-based works within a single dramaturgical constellation. A three-chapter video acts as its theatrical engine, generating the surrounding pieces. Its script is transcribed in the opening section of the publication, entirely designed by the artist, and introduces four universal “types” caught in a deceptively simple narrative of life and death.

His fragmentary and ironic writing generates videos, installations, and live performances that reveal the instability of communication in contemporary media and interpersonal exchange. Through shifting forms of dialogue, monologue, and rhetorical address, truth, whether real, potential, or imagined, is continually negotiated.

The book includes contributions by Ndayé Kouagou (Ndayé Kouagou), curator and researcher Rita Ouédraogo (Rita Ouédraogo), and Natalia Sielewicz (), curator at Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie.

In a 2013 interview published in Mousse Magazine 37, Hito Steyerl () spoke with Ana Teixeira Pinto about the growing dif...
31/07/2026

In a 2013 interview published in Mousse Magazine 37, Hito Steyerl () spoke with Ana Teixeira Pinto about the growing difficulty of separating media technology from the social: “We don’t have media ‘here’ and the social ‘there,’ but social media.”

On the occasion of Mousse 96 ~ 2006–2026: A Visual Record, the magazine’s special twentieth-anniversary issue, a selection of texts from the archive is revisited online. Read the full article at the link in bio.

30/07/2026

OUT NOW: John Tresch, “Technologies of Consciousness,” Part 2/5

Watch the second part of the course taught by John Tresch, Professor of History of Art and Science at in London, exploring various examples of the technologies of consciousness and their different aesthetic and political impacts.

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Conceived by Andrea Bellini and Federico Campagna (), “Agora: A Gathering of Art and Philosophy” is a free, semester-long program of English-language lectures, seminars, and one-to-one mentoring for a group of eight practicing artists and philosophers.

The recordings of the contributions from the faculty are now accessible to everyone on ’s digital platform, the 5th floor, with new releases scheduled monthly.

— —

Now available at agora.centre.ch:
•⁠ ⁠Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Politics & Aesthetics After Geontopower,” Part 4/5
• Nora N. Khan (), “On Discernment,” Part 2/2
• John Tresch, “Technologies of Consciousness,” Part 2/5

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