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Not just a 'nature' exhibition: on this year's immersive edition of Into Nature

Susan Jenkins

Positive contamination: on this year’s Helsinki Biennale

Eliisa Loukola

This year’s edition of the Helsinki Biennale wants to offer agency to nonhuman entities, be they natural or technological in nature. The works are spread around the island of Vallisaari and its old gunpowder cellars, facing the challenge and opportunity to work with their surroundings. Eliisa Loukola visits Vallisaari and selects some site-specific works.

A Choreography of Conviviality - New directions at Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Aude Christel Mgba

‘Our work experience has prepared us for this’ – in conversation with Antonio Amador and Jandir Junior

Tanja Baudoin

The artist duo from Rio de Janeiro creates performances that expose the social conditions of working in an art institution. Curator Tanja Baudoin talks to them ahead of their participation in the 35th São Paulo Biennale.

‘There's text happening everywhere’ – in conversation with writing and publishing collective Short Pieces That Move!

Cara Farnan

First begun in the context of the Piet Zwart Fine Art Masters by writer and translator Kate Briggs, Short Pieces That Move! has since expanded beyond the institution into online writing sessions, and more recently a publishing project. Cara Farnan sits down with the group a few days before their second pamphlet launch to ask about the work that they have been doing and the collective and energetic nature of their editing and publishing processes.

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‘Leaving room for silence and hesitation’ – in conversation with artist Sanne Kabalt

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Fighting ‘green growth’ with collective design: in conversation with Chilean art collective LAGDA

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Books—2015-11-22

In reference to the central theme of Metropolis M No 5- PALEO a review of Anselm Franke & Hila Peleg's exhibition and book Ape... read more

Books—2015-10-19

Yes, But is it Edible is a unique book, presenting the scores of two operas of the American composer Robert Ashley. read more

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Where is play in art? Fucking Good Art talks about it with Tijs Goldschmidt, Evelyne Reeves, Joris Luyendijk and Zoë Gray. read more

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A new magazine by the Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball examines the way objects and artifacts work in our understanding of... read more

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Het einde voor het d-woord en i-woord - Conclusies van SNAP’s What have you done for me lately?

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De stilte breken Ana Bravo Pérez bij Casco Art Institute

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05.06.2023

Kritische dialoog: Continue This Thread in het Amsterdam Museum

Nadeche Remst en Jorne Vriens

Het gesprek is bij uitstek geschikt om het eigen oordeel te scherpen. Wij vroegen twee kunstcritici samen een tentoonstelling te bezoeken en vervolgens met elkaar te bespreken. Nadeche Remst en Jorne Vriens gaan naar de... read more

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Verandering is de enige constante – over A Lasting Truth is Change bij het Van Abbemuseum

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Een tentoonstelling vol alliteratie en beeldrijm. De eerste collectiepresentatie in het Van Abbemuseum van Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, de nieuwe conservator tentoonstellingen, valt op door de speelse en gelaagde vorm van presenteren en... read more

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