As a collective of three artists based in Ghent, Belgium, we have been creating work for the streets with sex as our main theme for some time. Because of our mutual interests and because we happen to share the same sense of humor when it comes to this particular subject matter, this extended project all […]

Manfredi Beninati’s painting is informed by cinema, photography and literature and, through it, he shows us the world of personal memory. Historically speaking, the artist’s paintings, installations and sculptures refer to the so-called “theatricalization” of visual arts, developed into international artistic production during the last 50 years. Artists such as Robert Wilson, Vito Acconci and […]

In his photographs, installations and video works, Carlo Ferraris’ art resonates with a strong theoretical underpinning that cannot be separated from his interdisciplinary approach to making art. However, Ferraris’ artworks are less about the dynamics of his medium—including photography, sculpture, video and their particular discourses—and more related to post-conceptual art’s potential for exploring a host […]

Why create? To shout. Why keep on creating after the Shoah? To keep on shouting and preventing another one. To say: a flower is not a flower, To say: nails in a block of concrete and some cobblestones around it can also be a flower. If you dare looking at, imagining and loving this pile […]

Most family histories today feature stories of migration and displacement, of foreign origins or relatives and friends scattered across the globe. The works of the young Dutch-Brazilian artist Pablo Pijnappel similarly address this phenomenon. Taking as their starting point the history of a single member of the artist’s own extended family, his films and slide […]

“Image-Nation: Works by a New Generation of Chinese Artists” is an exhibition reflecting the interests of a younger group of artists that no longer takes as their subject the political content that widely characterized the work of their predecessors of the 80s and early 90s. Political art has, at times recently, become a parody of […]

In an age when Chinese art appears to be taking the world by storm and, given the ever-increasing population of China, one might assume that this is being done by a veritable horde of artists, but it might be surprising to some to find out that the actual number of Chinese artists is quite small. […]

In Huang Jiaoping, meetings with an artist occur in the afternoon, most of the time. The local artists are kind and welcoming, their studios are only considered fully equipped when furnished with a decent sound system and some facilities for making tea and coffee. Most visitors here are surprised to find a vast collection of […]

Russell Beighton: When I first started doing these works I questioned the hidden aspect of painting, like what was shown and what was not shown. Using the back of the canvas, I realized it also opened up to the possibility of another dimension; that of duplication and reflectivity through the use of mirrors and other […]

Ann-Sofi Sidén’s latest work, In Passing, is the fragmented story—told from a number of different perspectives—of a young woman who leaves her infant child in the baby hatch of a Berlin hospital. This act of desperation sets into motion a narrative following two parallel journeys—one of the orphaned child and another of its mother. The […]