Death in Paris
Two major institutions stage contemporary memento mori, and a talking cake warns humanity of the impending apocalypse.
Francesca Astesani
All articles by Francesca Astesani
Dark Teeth in Shining Smiles
Magnus Andersen expands painting beyond the canvas in a total
installation that grins at contemporary fantasies of idyllic rural life.
Life-fun Versus Art-fun
With the show Hummings, KØS Museum shows its ambitions to move its programme towards public space, but delivers unconvincing results.
Fuck Me in the Eye
Anne Imhof disappoints in morphing a live performance piece into her first major film work, delivering an infuriatingly long sequence of overhyped images in slow motion.
Precarious Workout
Thinking with Simone Weil and Thomas Hirschhorn, precariousness and fragmentation emerge as forces that reshape ideas of power, monuments, and art’s role in our troubled present.
Sugar Tears
In highly ornamented pieces that seduce the eye, Ebony G. Patterson touches deep colonial wounds and stresses the need to discuss them – without ending up in a muddle.
Owning Your Holes
Miriam Cahn summons real and timely struggles in a powerful show composed in the language of dreams.
Tales of In-betweens
Abandonment and ghostly presences dominate Jane Jin Kaisen’s body of work and an exhibition that, despite compelling narratives, longs for rhythm and surprise.
The World Is an Open Wound
In a disconcerting body of work, Steve McQueen makes our eyes sore from the world’s pain.
In the Depths of Figuration
Per Kirkeby’s bronze sculptures mould struggles with the paradoxes of representation into a theology of total incarnation.
