When the world begins to change in ways that seem difficult to stomach, we tend to step towards the past, looking for sympathy but finding empathy. In the upcoming exhibition, ‘QUEER ART IN THE GDR? Biographies between Underground and Propaganda,’ a certain social and political history is examined through its artists, in such a way that, despite feeling like a different world…
Open Call for Berlin Art Week 2026 Featured Section
Berlin Art Week is now accepting applications for its Featured section as part of the 15th edition of the festival, taking place from September 9th to 13th, 2026. This open call invites Berlin-based art initiatives, project spaces, municipal institutions and special projects to submit proposals to expand the festival’s program. The Featured section highlights projects in newly discovered…
Laughter at the Threshold: ‘Finite Jest’ at Sophiensaele
What’s worse than the insincerity of comedy as a response to the grave? The performance of sincerity. Unsolicited, self-serving gestures of moral goodness; the arrogance of assuming one’s offers, made “in good faith,” are what the sick, suffering and dying want and need. Worse still is the offence felt by the good-giver when their well-meaning gestures don’t land as expected. Melanie Jame Wolf…
The Week Mar. 23–29, 2026
Group Show: ‘QUEERE KUNST IN DER DDR?’ Opening Reception & Book Launch with Distanz Verlag: Wednesday, Mar. 25; 6–9pm Exhibition: Mar. 28–June 28, 2026 kvost.de/en Leipziger Straße 47, 10117 Berlin, click here for map Andreas Fux: ‘Handelszentrum Friedrichstraße’, Berlin, 1985, Fotografie // Courtesy of Andreas Fux und KVOST, Berlin Group Show: ‘QUEERE KUNST IN DER DDR?
Dissolving Boundaries: ‘K-NOW! Korean Video Art Today’ at MASI Lugano
Overlooking Lake Lugano in Switzerland, the three-story museum MASI Lugano recently opened ‘K-NOW! Korean Video Art Today,’ bringing together the works of eight Korean artists in an immersive exploration of South Korea’s contemporary art scene. Situated at a geographic and cultural crossroads between the north and south of the Alps and between Latin and Germanic Europe, the museum has served as a…
Open Call for Hopper Prize for Artists
The Hopper Prize is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2026 artist grants, offering support to visual artists and photographers working across all media worldwide. Awarded twice annually, this grant cycle provides six grants totaling $13,000 USD, designed to encourage creative experimentation and professional development. Two artists will each receive a grant of $4,500…
Weaving Memories: An Interview with Igshaan Adams
As you enter the foyer of Mudam Luxembourg, your eye is drawn upward. ‘Gebedswolke iii (prayer cloud)’—an installation made up of charms, wire and metallic disks—is suspended from the ceiling. It is an ethereal constellation of floating forms and a continuation of a motif (the cloud) that South African artist Igshaan Adams has worked with over the past ten years, initially as scribbles and later…
Amateur Traumatics: An Interview with William Joys
This article is part of our feature topic Abjection. Abjection and power go together like Deleuze and Guattari, but it’s not always clear which one is in charge. Power dynamics lie at the heart of human relationships, but they’re often invisiblized. Among the few times and places such relations are laid bare for consideration is on the stage. The theater opens the hidden corners of the human…
The Week Mar. 16–22, 2026
Peter Hujar & Liz Deschenes: ‘Persistence of Vision’ Opening Reception: Wednesday, Mar. 18; 7pm Exhibition: Mar. 19–June 28, 2026 gropiusbau.de/peter-hujar-liz-deschenes Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin, click here for map Peter Hujar: ‘Beauregard and his Dog Pilar (I),’ 1983 // © The Peter Hujar Archive / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026 Group Show: ‘Seeing Words, Reading Images – Die…
Confronting Incoherence: ‘The Double’ at GHMP Zvon
This article is part of our feature topic Abjection. Abjection often conjures images of horror—filth, ugliness, death—in their most visceral, corporeal form. Yet what we tend to neglect are abject forms of the mind: a kind of psychic horror that arises from the slippery grip we have on our sense of self. This discomfort, the circling ambiguity of our personhood and the world we inhabit…