#52 Summer 2017

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The borders of fiction and reality are slipping ever further. A lot of what is behind the images on our screens remains hidden: their political utility; the algorithms through which they appear; the source of their magic. How does that change the nature of the exhibition? Is it moving from the white cube into virtual realms, into the urban fabric, into domestic spaces? Between networks, theory and the market, where is the power of exhibitions today?

Views Austria

VIENNA: Martin Beck at Mumok by Maximilian Geymüller, Ben Schumacher at Croy Nielsen by Max L. Feldman, Helmut Lang at Sammlung Friedrichshof Zurndorf / Stadtraum Wien by Christian Egger; GRAZ: Stephan Dillemuth at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien by Melissa Canbaz

Views Paris

Jasper Spicero at New Galerie, Jean-Michel Wicker at Galerie Édouard Montassut, and Than Hussein Clark at Galerie Crèvecoeur by Charles Teyssou and Pierre-Alexandre Mateos

Views Brussels

Bruno Gironcoli at Clearing, “The Absent Museum”at WIELS, and “Neither” at Mendes Wood DM by Laura Herman

Views New York

“We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85”at the Brooklyn Museum, and Jef Geys at Essex Street by Annie Godfrey Larmon

Views Berlin

“Collected Attituded” at Fahrbereitschaft – Sammlung Haubrok by Mitch Speed, Michael Portnoy at the KW performance series “The Weekends” by Nick Currie, Micah Hesse at Neumeister Bar-Am by Chloe Stead, Candice Breitz at KOW by Chloe Stead

Views Los Angeles

Kerry James Marshall at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and “Power: Work By African American Women From The Nineteenth Century To Now” at Sprüth Magers by Andrew Berardini

Views Switzerland

ZURICH: “Speak, Lokal” at Kunsthalle Zürich by Daniel Horn; GENEVA: Yoan Mudry at Art Bärtschi & Cie, Philippe Daerendinger at Quark, and Denis Savary at Galerie Xippas by Yann Chateigné; BASEL: Stephen Cripps at Museum Tinguely by Harry Burke

The End is Night

Kiev – Athens – Paris. By Dan Bodan

"Antibodies", Carol Rama at the New Museum

By Iona Whittaker

Bait and Switch

Alexander Scrimgeour gets to the bottom of the problem that is the Athens instalment of Documenta

Seduction

by Henning Besser, Javier Peres, Robert Schulte, Karim Crippa, Simon Fujiwara

Music

Rave still holds the problematic promise of total immersion. By Nora Khan

Meditation

Why don’t we leave the white cube and imagine the exhibition as a global nervous system with lots of entrances and exits? By Valentinas Klimasauskas

Media

The New York Times virtual-reality app takes Rob Horning to deep space, to the front lines in Falluja or to artist’s studios. But once you have stepped inside these worlds, it's not clear what you are supposed to do there.

Artchitecture

What are the exhibition spaces of the future? Hybrid museum buildings, domestic spaces that defy our transparent, commercialised world, or the urban fabric itself? Alessandro Bava on the rediscovered relevance of architecture and the desire for real experience.

Q/A Emily Pethick

Are talks, workshops, and events more important today than classical exhibitions?

Interview Brigitte Kowanz

The sculptures the artist started making in 1980s Vienna stand in stark contrast to Actionism and monumental sculpture. Her medium is light, and in her most recent neon works the digital plays an increasingly important role. By Maximilian Geymüller

Interview Andros Zins-Browne

The choreographer spoke to Asad Raza about dance and exhibitions, the process of “de-hearsal”, and how Metallica and Shakespeare shook up his sense of time and space.

Portrait Karen Kilimnik

There is something enigmatic about her theatrical installations. With paintings, readymades, sculptures, drawings and videos, they draw the viewer into a world of glitter, horror, stars and victims, but we never know who it belongs to. By Barry Schwabsky

Q/A Rózsa Farkas

Has Instagram killed the exhibition review?

Images contributed

by Elad Lassry, Sophie von Hellermann, GCC, Alex Da Corte

Q&A Benjamin Bratton

Does the feed change our experience of time?

Postcard

from Lagos by Emeka Okereke

Roundtable: What can exhibitions do?

Chris Dercon, Heidi Ballet and Tirdad Zolghadr talk about the power of the object, the large-scale exhibition, lazy curators and the importance of creating a public.

Q/A Adriana Lara

What is the ideal exhibition?

One Work

Cecilia Vicuña’s cloud net links language and performance, indigeneity and ecology, in ways that speak to our contemporary moment. By Harry Burke

Exhibition Histories

Liam Gillick on one of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s first solo shows, “untitled (1992) free”, at 303 Gallery in New York in 1992

Curator's Key

Doryun Chong, chief curator of M+ in Hong Kong, on Stanton Near Forsyth Street (1984) by Martin Wong

Artist's Favourites

by Dawn Kasper