émergent (2025)

15/09/2025

In Conversation with Anne Bourse
Words by Emma Bombail

"Why melancholia?"

"It’s not entirely clear, but it’s often the state I want to put myself (and us) in, what I want the thing I’ve made to do to me. It’s a kind of transaction: I want it to put us in a state of melancholy, since we’re made of things just as much as we make them."

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Images: 1&3. Studio imagery
2. Sketch for summer (3), 2025, acrylic glass, adhesive tape, photocopied coated paper, handmade fabric, 93 × 72 × 25 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Crèvecoeur. Work views: Alex Kostromin
4. Cabinet, 2025, acrylic glass, mirrored acrylic glass, adhesive tape, tinted glass, ink and pencil on wood cardboard, 153 × 62 × 22,5 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Crèvecoeur. Work views: Alex Kostromin

12/09/2025

Torbjørn Rødland at Galerie Eva Presenhuber

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"At a moment in which one is just as likely to summon a picture of reality through ChatGPT or a guided ayahuasca meditation as by walking down the street, Rødland’s photographs testify to a careful, multidimensional construction of experience. Looking at his images is a reminder of what it might mean to actually believe in something and to let go of our conscious mind’s negative judgements: wrong, right, beautiful, ugly."

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Image: Home Song, 2020-25, Chromogenic print, Fuji Crystal Archive Matte paper, Image 45 x 57 cm / 17 3/4 x 22 1/2 in, Frame 46.5 x 59 x 3.5 cm / 18 1/4 x 23 1/4 x 13/8 in, © Torbjorn Rodland, courtesy of Galerie Eva Presenhuber

10/09/2025

Realife 2 at Café des Glaces
A Maior, Anne Bourse, Camille Besson, Ethan Assouline, Gilles Jacot, Gina Folly, Haydée Marin, Lorenza Longhi

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"Perhaps this is the ultimate commodity on sale at the Megastore: the fantasy that class divisions are suspended." Hal Foster, Design and Crime and Other Diatribes (2002)

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Images: 1. Gina Folly, You are not an island, 2025, box, varnished cardboard, seven preserved orange zinnias, floor sticker, 30 x 27 x 16 cm, Courtesy of the artist & Fanta MLN
2,3. Realife 2, exhibition view, 2025, Café des Glaces, Tonnerre

08/09/2025

Tanja Widmann in Issue 13
Words by Frank Wasser.

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Widmann (b. 1966) in Villach, AT, lives and works in Vienna, Al and Munich, DE. Her practice navigates the material constraints and social fictions that regulate contemporary life, tracing the symbolic and economic circuits through which value is produced and circulated. Her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Schiefe Zähne, Berlin; 15th Baltic Triennial, CAC, Vilnius; University Gallery of the Angewandte, Vienna; FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna; New Toni, Berlin and Kunsthalle Wien.

05/09/2025

Carl Mannov at Kunstnerforbundet

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"The building blocks of the works—letters, people, body parts, or clothing—are arranged in a scenography where everything is potentially performative. What unites them all is the ambiguous balance between encoding and decoding, between figuration and abstraction."

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Images: Installation view, Oversiktsbilde Fra Utstillingen Barbara (2025) Courtesy of Kunstnerforbundet

03/09/2025

Michael Dean in conversation with Reuben Beren James in Issue 13.

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"To be stuck trying to understand a sense of closed language-someone gives you a piece of poetry or something, and you read it, and your interpretation is automatically a kind of curse. Because it's not contextualised by the fabric of what people know— those who've been brought up or initiated through the birth and context of that language. So it was really kind of scary, also. And strange."

Michael Dean (b. 1977, Newcastle Upon Tyne; lives and works in London) Michael Dean starts his work with writing, which is then abstracted into human-scale sculptures using industrial and daily materials such as concrete, steel, paper and padlocks. He explores the three-dimensional possibilities of language by 'spelling out his words through an alphabet of concrete sculptures, advertising stickers, dyed books, coke cans, plastic bags and casts of his and his family's fists and fingers. His practice is not about presenting readable words, but rather a disclosure of the personal and political, referring to concrete as a 'democratic ceramic'. In 2016, Dean was nominated for the Turner Prize for his solo exhibitions at South London Gallery and De Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam. Later this year, a major monograph on Dean's practice will be published by Distanz.

01/09/2025

Diamond Stingily at Cabinet

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Images: Installation View, 2025, Images courtesy of the artist and Cabinet, London

29/08/2025

'Gestural Poethics'
Rhea Dillon at Heidelberger Kunstverein
Words by Sabrina Roman

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"Each creation, therefore, becomes a substitute for an absent line, prompting the observer to mentally reconstruct the poem. This method echoes techniques found in the works of Black women authors such as Toni Morrison, producing what might be seen as a poetic sequel, or even a magnum opus, composed through absence and presence."

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Image: Rhea Dillon “Gestural Poethics”, installation view at Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2025. Courtesy of Rhea Dillon & Heidelberger Kunstverein. Photo: Heidelberger Kunstverein

27/08/2025

Yorgos Prinos in conversation with Laurens Otto in Issue 13.

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"Prinos work equally intensifies the real, and through that intensi-fication, there's a certain transcendence. Robert Bresson: "Many people think that the fantastical has to do with unusual characters and exceptional situations. The fantastic is everywhere around us, it's the face seen from close-up there is nothing more fantastical than the real."

Yorgos Prinos (b.1977), Athens, Greece Lives and works in Athens, Greece. Recent exhibitions: 2024 Prologue to a Prayer, Hot Wheels London, UK (solo) 2023 The Word for Museum is Forest, curated by Eleni Michaelidi, GfZK Leipzig, Leipzig, DE 2022 Modern Love, curated by Katerina Gregos, National Museum of Contemporary Art, EMST, Athens, GR Art Athina, with Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR (solo) Optics Is Ethics, Hot Wheels Athens, Athens, GR (solo) 2021 Critical Archives V: The Future Is Unwritten, Contemporary Art Museum of Crete, Crete, GR Frieze London, with Hot Wheels Athens, London, UK (solo) 7th Athens Biennale: ECLIPSE, Athens, GR Urfaust, curated by Francesco Tenaglia, Tarsia, Naples, IT 2020 UTTERS EXCESS IN BETWEEN, curated by loanna Gerakidi & Danae Io, State of Concept, Athens, GR

22/08/2025

'Modelling Life' at Z33

Atiéna R. Kilfa, Caroline Van den Eynden, Christiane Blattmann, Diane Simpson, Helen Chadwick, Jakob Brugge, Joseph Grigely, Kasper Bosmans, Mark Manders, Pablo Bronstein, Park McArthur, Robert Gober, Rosemarie Trockel, Sara Deraedt

Through installations and conceptual works, the artists in the exhibition highlight the role of the model as both mirror and blueprint of collective aspirations. Modelling Life emphasises the process of making spaces that accommodate diverse bodies, experiences, and dreams, ultimately asking of us: can we create a built environment as rich and complex as life itself?

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Images: 1. Robert Gober, Untitled, 1997, Cast plastic, painted bronze, paper, silver-plated steel, wood. © Robert Gober, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo: GRAYSC
2. Mark Manders, Inhabited for a Survey (15-08-2007), 2005 - 2007, Various materials. Courtesy the artist and Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Photo: GRAYSC
3. Atiéna R. Kilfa, Untitled (Insomnia Scroll), 2025, Inkjet on glossy paper mounted on Dibond. Courtesy the artist, Cabinet, London and Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt. Photo: GRAYSC

20/08/2025

'Sojourn'
Allen-Golder Carpenter at TICK TACK
Words by Allan Gardner

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"Making, to physically produce something with one’s hands, is to claim a right over that material and environment in which it is shown. Artistic output is, at times, no more than a record making, a record of that claim to material or to space. Carpenter truly does claim the space, making use of every inch of the gallery, hiding miniature works in corners, removing an internal section of wall and leaning two paintings into it – one facing out into the street, only viewable from outside of the gallery."

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Images: 1. Allen-Golder Carpenter - Sojourn - installation view at TICK TACK
2,3. Allen-Golder Carpenter - Sojourn, 2025, Moving image (animation and found footage), 30'10" Edition of 4 plus 2 AP - Courtesy of TICK TACK, Antwerp

18/08/2025

'Mediapark' at Galerina hosted by JENNY'S
Gretchen Lawrence, Margaret Tashkova

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"GRETCHEN LAWRENCE AND MARGARET TASHKOVA (b. 1997 Tallinn EE) is a performance and audio-visual artist working with painting, found objects, and digital media. At the centre of her approach is a process of rendering accidental resource into subjects that trace an identity matrix of a first generation post-Soviet capitalist consumer. Sound and skinned furniture within Lawrence & Tashkova’s collage animate the artist’s reflection on the Western visual culture characterised by confusion, chance, mass production, and nostalgia cycles."

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Images: 1,3: Stage, 2025 MDF board, wood, screws, marker, oil-based enamel, tape, headphones, table, DJ mixer, laptop, nails, microphone, folding table, bag, dress, radio, shoes, water, cables, hammer
2: Backstage, 2025 Acrylic, graffiti marker, found clock on unstretched canvas 70" 53"

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