Sinziana Ravini

Sinziana Ravini f. 1976, är konstkritiker, curator och teorilärare bosatt i Paris. Hon skriver för Dagens Nyheter, Göteborgs Posten, SITE, Frog och artforum.com och undervisar på curatorskolan ICART i Paris. Hon har en Magisterexamen i konstvetenskap vid Göteborgs Universitet (2004) samt en Doktorsexamen i litteraturvetenskap vid Heidelbergs Universitet (2008).

All articles by Sinziana Ravini

Eyes in the Back of Your Head

Eyes in the Back of Your Head

The 11th Gothenburg Biennial tells a powerful story about seafaring, colonialism, and racism, but suffers from a certain artistic and intellectual predictability.

Dead Phallus

Dead Phallus

In Matthew Barney’s comeback at the Hayward in London, self-mythologising has given way to a dark and icy world where environmental violence prevails.

The Show Is Not Over

The Show Is Not Over

In a closed-down Paris, Wu Tsang’s all-embracing exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations stages the desire to transcend the boundaries of the body and the psyche.

A Game of Chess With Death

A Game of Chess With Death

Manifesta 13 in Marseille – one of the European cities hardest hit by the pandemic – unbolts the door to madness. But is madness enough in these insane times?

Psychonautic Aesthetics

Psychonautic Aesthetics

The most important artists of the 2010’s were the ones who helped us to navigate through private and social neuroses, perversions, and psychoses.

The Beautiful End

The Beautiful End

In Cyprien Gaillard’s exhibition in Stockholm, the angel of fascism dances for an eternal and desirable sleep.

Not Being, But Becoming

Not Being, But Becoming

Fondation Cartier shows how artists today try to invent a personal visual language where theory and politics are latent and unfathomable.

The Sublime Schizo-Aesthetics of the Chinese Restaurant

The Sublime Schizo-Aesthetics of the Chinese Restaurant

Lap-See Lam demonstrates the advantages that transhumanism, technocapitalism, and post-internet art have in common.

They Give Us the Art We Deserve

They Give Us the Art We Deserve

Gilbert & George’s exhibition at Moderna Museet is wild, speculative, cynical, neurotic, pornographic, spiritual and kitschy.

The rampant self

The rampant self

Franz West fought his whole life with the question of how he could achieve something by doing nothing.

Reply to Nav Haq

Reply to Nav Haq

Haq’s objections to my review do not change the fact that he has failed to confront secularity as an urgent and conflicted topic.

What Only a Loving, Disinterested Eye Would Notice

What Only a Loving, Disinterested Eye Would Notice

What is the secret to Matias Faldbakken’s artistic and literary success? Fearlessness.

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Car Salesman or Museum Director?

Car Salesman or Museum Director?

When the Munch Museum, spearheaded by Director Stein Olav Henrichsen, uses Munch as a kind of zombie influencer to sell cars, it has crossed a line.

The Art of Being a Slut

The Art of Being a Slut

More rainbow sprinkles than cock and balls, Leif Holmstrand’s retrospective at Marabouparken is surprisingly sanitised.

Legacy of Experimentalism Continues

Legacy of Experimentalism Continues

Today, Friday 22 October, marks the grand opening of the new Munch Museum in Oslo.

The São Paulo Biennial Ventures Deep Into the Brazilian Darkness

The São Paulo Biennial Ventures Deep Into the Brazilian Darkness

The 34th edition is a parade of monstrous and transgressive bodies.