Born in Germany but writing in English, Katharina Volckmer is one of a handful of female contemporary writers (another being Missouri Williams) who still loves to antagonise the reader and shatter a few taboos along the way. Her first novella The Appointment—published by Fitzcarraldo in 2020 and recently brought to the stage by Call My…
“I had this idea – I wanted to stage an exhibition after my death. Five years later: Bernar Venet: New Works. He’s dead, but there’s new work. And then I thought, actually, I’m in too much of a hurry!” French artist Bernar Venet is laughing but the idea is completely serious. With the help of…
For over two decades, London-based German artist Nicole Wermers has honed a singular sculptural practice that navigates the intersection of design, architecture, and the social politics of space. Known for her precise juxtapositions of found and fabricated forms, Wermers explores the structures that shape urban life and the hierarchies that govern bodily presence within them….
Set within the vaulted, echoing chambers of a 13th-century Byzantine cistern beneath Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, Murmurations marks the first in a new series of exhibitions hosted at this historic site in Istanbul. London-based artist Anousha Payne, whose hybrid sculptural forms weave together myth and memory, presents a body of work shaped by her study of…
Mounira Al Solh’s solo exhibition, Stray Salt, on view at Sfeir-Semler Gallery in Beirut until 1 August 2025, marks the artist’s homecoming after representing Lebanon at the 60th Venice Biennale. In Beirut’s downtown port district, a site fraught with history and trauma, Al Solh probes and rewrites the stories that have long defined women’s roles…
If to some people E.1027 might sound like a bug to be avoided or an additive in food, architecture fans will smile in recognition. This is the name of the house in France’s Côte d’Azur designed by lovers Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici in the late twenties. The house, its architects and its legacy is…
Born in 1947 in a small Piedmont village, Giuseppe Penone might be Italy’s most important contemporary artist working today. A key member of the Arte Povera movement, Penone started out with a group of young Italian artists spearheaded by curator and critic Germano Celant who in the late 1960s sought to critique consumerism and industrialism…
Bringing together a body of work that blends 3D animation, mythology and ecological speculation, South Korean artist and filmmaker Eunjo Lee returns to her alma mater—where she graduated just last year—for a solo exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA. The presentation, titled Before the Shadow Taught the Sun, is part of the gallery’s Episodes series, a programme…