Under her direction since 2021, living up to first principles at Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts, colloquially the MAK, begins with knowing where the present is.

In a six-hour performance-installation at Funkhaus, Vienna, over-direction stymies the bleed between make-believe hospice and real-life aging and dying.

At Albertina Modern, Vienna, fantastical humanoid contraptions and very literal fitness sculptures hum with new, postindustrial purpose.

Productions by playwright Azade Shahmiri, choreographer Ula Sickle, and visual artist Markus Schinwald get all up in your business.

Has Conceptualism run out of runway? In Linz, a kind of homecoming retrospective finds a rare practitioner who still has fresh ideas.

On Ensaio para uma Cartografia and Orest in Mossul. Originally published in German.

Formed in Zagreb in 2000, What, How and for Whom have come into the limelight of European art by re-crystallizing the exhibition as a site of transformative politics.

What were the little highlights to make this life worth living – and what was bad enough to stand out in even the darkest times?

In the decades since his passing, it’s become no less difficult to resist the charms of an artist who paints cornflakes, cassette tapes, and dinosaurs, with the same formal sensibility and enthusiasm ...

This art year had so much to offer that losing orientation wasn’t very difficult. So why not, we thought, organize it into what was best, and what was worst?

A controversy around a painting as a symptom of an art-world malady.

On the narrative potential of painting. Originally published in German.

In the performance duo’s Vienna debut, a community of trans-species beings inhabits a building for weeks on end – and provides a model narrative for the 21st century. Originally published in German.