Writing
Selected writing on contemporary art, addressing artists, institutions, and the systems through which art is produced, circulated, and understood. Published in The Art Journal, Right Click Save, Frieze, Spike, Apollo, Sleek, and Art Basel Stories.
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 Gold on generative art’s exquisite corpse
The New Museum: Back to the Future
Massimiliano Gioni on reopening the New Museum and humanities’ relationship to technology
The Art Journal
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.
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