Writing
Selected writing on contemporary art, the art market and art and technology, addressing artists, institutions and the systems through which art is produced, circulated and understood. Columns: Messy Business (The Art Journal) and Preisfrage, a monthly market column for Monopol. Published in The Art Journal, Monopol, Frieze, ArtReview, Right Click Save, Spike, Apollo, Sleek and Art Basel Stories.
Messy Business: Nepo Babies Are Taking Over the Art Market
The Art Journal
The Art Basel and UBS survey suggests a youthquake: Gen Z collectors spend the most on average. But as collectors buy less at auction and more directly from artists, galleries are feeling the squeeze.
Preisfrage: The Great Wealth Transfer Won't Save the Art Market
Monopol Magazine
A trillion dollars' worth of art is about to be inherited, but the wave of bequests is unlikely to bring new buyers into the market. The first instalment of Preisfrage, my monthly market column for Monopol, in English.
The Rise of the Fluid Foundation
ArtReview
Is the future nomadic? On contemporary philanthropy and the private foundations moving away from fixed buildings towards travelling models.
A Long Shadow Remains Over Switzerland's Largest Art Museum
Monopol Magazine
The legacy of the Bührle collection continues to divide opinion at the Kunsthaus Zürich. Voters have approved more public funding, but the museum's future is anything but certain.
Peter Greenaway: "Painting Is Handwork. Film Means People, Machines, Money and Waiting"
Monopol Magazine
An interview with the storied British filmmaker, who also trained as a painter, on the two art forms, his inability to cook and the date of his death. In German.
Messy Business: Berlin Is Learning to Live With the Cuts
The Art Journal
Berlin Art Week finds a city remaking its cultural economy, as institutions seek private money, galleries test new models and artists are squeezed out. On the ground at Hallen07 and beyond.
Messy Business: Forget Paris. In Marseille, a New Art Ecosystem Emerges
The Art Journal
Thirty-seven galleries, sixteen countries, €3,500 a booth and twelve prizes: what Art-o-rama's twentieth edition says about where the French market has gone.
The Rencontres d'Arles Misses What AI Really Reveals About Photography
Frieze
While individual projects dazzle, the festival sidesteps photography's critical history and risks treating synthetic imagery as mere technique.
Messy Business: Enter the Broker
The Art Journal
Lost artworks, forgotten wallets and rising prices: as digital artists' careers ramp up, new ways of buying art emerge.
The Possibilities of Photography Today
Monopol Magazine
From Ghana's independence to camera-less images of bacteria: the "Rencontres de la Photographie” in Arles surveys the history and present of photography across more than 40 exhibitions throughout Arles. In German.
An Artist Whose Futures Keep Coming True | Cao Fei
Right Click Save
With two big European shows this year, the creator of a city in Second Life has become an ethnographer of Chinese technology — embedding with drone-makers and warehouse robots to ask what automation leaves of the human
Messy Business: Pace Didn't Break the Mega Gallery Model. It Broke Itself
The Art Journal
Marc Glimcher says the mega-gallery system is "unfixable". But artist testimony and Pace's own accounts point to a crisis rooted less in the art market than in the gallery leadership's own decisions.
Zero 10 Returns to Basel with a Museum, Not a Marketplace
The Art Journal
Six months after launching in Miami Beach with OpenSea, Art Basel’s digital section has swapped its commercial partner for a curatorial thesis
Adebunmi Gbadebo Gives Her Ancestors a Voice
Monopol Magazine
With earth, indigo, rice and human hair, Adebunmi Gbadebo reconstructs the history of her enslaved ancestors - currently on view at the Venice Biennale, among other places. Here, the artist tells how she makes suppressed memories visible.
Review: Chloe Wise at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger
Monopol Magazine
The afterlife as a B-Movie
The Best of Zurich Art Weekend
The Art Journal
Hauser & Wirth transformed into a casino, Fabergé eggs in fake snow, a billionaire's fantasy of the Alps… Six shows to see in Zurich in June
The $12 Warhol and the $120,000 Art Fair Booth
The Art Journal
As Pace retrenches, a new generation of gallerists are reinventing Art Basel
Messy Business: Chinamaxxed?
The Art Journal
The new generation rebuilding Beijing’s art market – on its own terms
Messy Business: New York Art Week
The Art Journal
“You Need a Delusional Brain to Run a Gallery These Days” - Olga Temnikova, founder, Esther Art fair and Temnikova and Kasela gallery
New York Art Week delivered its strongest spring auction numbers in years. But for gallerists selling work at the $10,000 mark, the mood was rather more complicated
Messy Business: No Outside
The Art Journal
Why we are now post-post internet, featuring Maja Malou Lyse, DIS, and Katja Novitskova
Please Respond
Right Click Save
Interview with Tyler Hobbs, Aleksandra Jovanić, and Kjetil Golid on generative art’s exquisite corpse
The New Museum: Back to the Future
The Art Journal
Massimiliano Gioni on reopening the New Museum and the humanities’ relationship to technology.
Martin Margiela
Art Basel Stories
Conversation on the transition from fashion to art, addressing material transformation, authorship, and what artistic practice makes possible beyond the temporal limits of fashion.
On the Status of Allegory in Contemporary Art
Text Magazine
Essay on the persistence of allegory within contemporary art, arguing for its renewed relevance as a mode of interpretation in an era marked by fragmentation and loss.
Walter Benjamin: Exilic Archive
Frieze
Review addressing the archive as a mode of historical and critical production, engaging with Benjamin’s method of fragmentation, montage, and the politics of memory.
Paul Chan: Artists as Publishers
Conversation on publishing as a site of artistic production, exploring authorship, circulation, and the construction of discourse through editorial forms.
Danh Vo
Art Basel Stories
Feature on Danh Vo’s dialogue with Isamu Noguchi, addressing hybridity, authorship, and the dissolution of boundaries between sculpture, design, and architecture.
Art in the Times of Erdogan: Ahmet Ögüt
Spike
Interview with the Turkish artist on artistic protest, censorship, and the relationship between political repression and cultural production.
Grace Wales Bonner
Art Basel Stories
Feature on Spirit Movers, addressing curatorial practice as a form of authorship across fashion, sound, and performance, and its engagement with diasporic histories and cultural memory.
A History of the Art Market Report
Art Basel Stories
Interview with Clare McAndrew on the evolution of the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report and its influence on how the global art market is analysed and understood.
Altered Image: Nancy Burson
Right Click Save
Interview with the pioneering artist behind facial morphing technology, examining the relationship between photography, digital manipulation, and the construction of visual truth.
Panorama Pozzuoli
Art Basel Stories
Feature on a dispersed exhibition model that situates contemporary art within geological, historical, and mythological strata, reconfiguring exhibition-making as a dialogue with deep time and place.
Ann Demeester
Art Basel Stories
Interview with the director of Kunsthaus Zürich on the role of the museum today, addressing public engagement, institutional responsibility, and the relationship between artists and audiences.
Marina Abramović
Art Basel Stories
Interview on performance, immateriality, and her move into NFTs, exploring how digital technologies reshape the relationship between artist, work, and audience.
Wu Tsang
Zurich Magazine
Conversation on performance, authorship, and collaboration, developed around Wu Tsang’s director residency at Schauspielhaus Zürich.
Studio Berlin at Berghain - an interview with Karen Boros
Art Basel Stories
Feature on the transformation of Berghain into a large-scale exhibition space, examining the convergence of nightlife, contemporary art, and alternative cultural infrastructures.
Max Beckmann
Apollo
Critical essay on Max Beckmann, engaging with his relationship to myth, modernity, and the tradition of German Expressionism.
New German Cultural Heritage Law Draws Protest from Artists and Collectors
Apollo
Reportage on the controversy surrounding Germany's new Kulturgutschutzgesetz and its implications for the international art market and freedom of movement of works.