The dusky side of Arts and Fashion.
Unveiling the ‘Apocalypse’ / Sandra Mujinga
“We are always late,” the artist says, suggesting that being contemporary means relating to our timeline rather than simply chasing modernity. In their work, presence and invisibility intertwine, revealing that a space “is never empty” and that what it is hidden, what seems absent often speaks the loudest.
Art&Culture | Interview
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/by Editor NastyOnce Again / MATRAKK
With Once Again, MATRAKK enters a phase of refinement rather than escalation. The EP captures a moment of recalibration, where groove, emotion, and melody take precedence over pressure and speed. Drawing from trance, hard house, and melodic techno, the project moves through optimism, nostalgia, and release, reflecting an artist reshaping his energy without losing its intensity.
Music | Interview
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/by adminHer Blue Eyes / Devon Ross through Jason Renaud’s Lens
With her blue eyes, she studies the camera as if she wasn’t the subject of its lens’ photographic investigations. A look away from the viewfinder and reciprocal stares of admiration get impressed on film, their expressions hazingly fading in the folds of out-of-focus feelings and images.
Photography | Spotlight
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/by Editor NastyBecoming
The body loosens its boundaries, shedding assigned meanings through makeup, nail art, and clothing. Identity appears fluid and unstable, constantly reforming through gesture, styling, and presence. This series explores becoming as an act of resistance to familiar norms, photographed by Isabella Gao.
Fashion | Exclusive
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/by Editor NastyLuxury for the soul / Sensoria Dolomites
Sensoria Dolomites is a retreat designed for slowing down. Set against the raw majesty of the Dolomites, this adults-only sanctuary reimagines luxury as presence, balance and sensory depth. Here, refined design, intuitive wellness and the power of nature converge to make it the ultimate South Tyrol destination.
Lifestyle | Places
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/by adminTension and Stillness
The body moves as if guided by breath and instinct while light traces the dance, revealing softness and release in an honest, physical rhythm. A series photographed by Same.
Photography | Exclusive
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/by Editor NastyCarsten Höller x Kulm Hotel / St. Moritz
A suspension of ordinary perception is born from the collaboration between two forces, the Kulm Hotel St. Moritz in Switzerland and German-Belgian artist Carsten Höller.
Art&Culture | Spotlight
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/by Editor NastyEsoterrorist / Lust for Paper
Esoterrorist is a publication that, much like its creator Genesis P-Orridge, refuses to be confined by definition or category, inhabiting a space that is deliberately unstable. In approaching its content, we have chosen to translate it into the form of a cut up, a process of dismantling and reassembling words that finds its origins in the experiments first of Brion Gysin and then William S. Burroughs.
Art&Culture | Spotlight
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/by Editor NastyOne Sun / Alexander Wessely
Alexander Wessely moves through sculpture, spatial installations, film and large-scale scenography with monolithic, ceremonial clarity and brutality. Light, body, architecture collide in spaces that feel almost ritualistic. He’s worked with The Weeknd, FKA Twigs, Grimes, Anyma, Arca. Shown at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Konserthuset. Played with scale at Sphere in Las Vegas and at Madison Square Garden. He was the creative mind behind the 2025 Nobel Prize Ceremony, tracing light from the first spark of dawn. Stark. Precise. Brutal, if you want to call it that. And it works. Every single time. Leaves you altered, mesmerized, lingering, unsettling, like a forgotten memory that presses against the skin of the mind. In this conversation for NASTY, he reflects on perception as constructed, solitude as focus and why meaning in a world of infinite simulation only appears through limits.
Art&Culture | Interview
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/by adminOn Desintegration / Samuel Kerridge
With Memoir of Disintegration now out on Blueprint Records, Samuel Kerridge speaks about Downwards as context rather than concept, and about the shift from confrontation to clarity following Kick to Kill. The conversation moves through experimentation, defiance without nostalgia and the need to push sound and format until they break and begin to make sense again.
Music | Interview
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/by adminFlow & Peace of mind / Dolomites
This winter the mountains felt like a decision we could no longer postpone. The Dolomites waited like something out of a dream: patient, indifferent, impossibly vast, demanding attention, respect and a certain kind of honesty. Enjoy the discovery journey through the most iconic mountains of Northern Italy by a newly addicted to snow play.
Lifestyle | Spotlight
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/by adminThe space between signals / Rafael Anton Irisarri
Spotlight on Rafael Anton Irisarri‘s upcoming ambient/experimental album, Points of Inaccessibility, out February 6, 2026 via Black Knoll Editions.
Music | Spotlight
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/by adminBodymatrix
The human body becomes a geometric and expressive system, where movement and stillness search for balance. Inspired by classical proportions, form is deconstructed and reshaped through patterns, fabrics, and reflections. A series by WanJin.
Fashion | Exclusive
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/by Editor NastyVague
In the absence of color there is depth without noise and restraint without absence. Grey absorbs light instead of reflecting it offering a surface where thought can settle. A series by Sophie Fedotenkova.
Fashion | Exclusive
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/by Editor NastyThe Next Order / Palaye Royale
Latest Music Cover story & exclusive photoshoot. Palaye Royale in an Ann Demeulemeester Special shot by Alex Hall in Paris.
Music | Interview
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/by adminBury the Moon
Soft blue haze moves across each frame, pulling into a world where motion blurs and shadows soften every contour. Dark, unfocused tones distort, creating images that linger like fading impressions. Photographed by James Morris.
Fashion | Exclusive
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/by Editor NastyMeeting with the other
A young girl with the rare ability to commune with dark forces devotes herself to ancient rituals and forbidden magic. Each encounter pulls her deeper into a world where power and consequence are never separate.
Fashion | Exclusive
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/by Editor NastyAlchemic Amazon / Joiah
Eureka has just released their debut album, a collection of 10 diverse techno tracks that explore various aspects of the genre. Despite being new to the Milan scene, Eureka has quickly made an impact, with early support from prominent DJs in the techno world.
Music | Spotlight
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/by adminNasty Top 10 2025 / A Must-See List of Art Moments
We have reached the end of another year, and Nasty Magazine returns with a customary compilation selected by our Art Editor, Maria Abramenko, of unmissable exhibitions of 2025. A collection of projects, initiatives, and cultural acts that too often went unnoticed because they disturb, because they refuse to bow to the logic of the ordinary.
Art&Culture | Spotlight
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/by Editor NastyDriving to Nowhere, Arriving Everywhere / D-Leria
D-Leria, the sonic incarnation of Giuseppe Scaccia, has built his path through constant reinvention from the darkness of Driving to Nowhere to the expansive vision of Multiverso, and the instinctive freedom of his brand new alias Kongas.
Music | Interview
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/by adminLove Will Tear Us Apart / Ben Frost
In October 2025, Istanbul ‘74 presented Love Will Tear Us Apart, a new site-specific installation by Ben Frost that transforms a pair of adjoining rooms into a sound study of fractured communication. Using battered foldback monitors salvaged from years of stage use, Frost creates a sonic environment where signals drift, collide and dissolve across a physical divide. The work examines how individuals strain to reach one another, how intimacy is shaped by misalignment, and how even damaged instruments can carry the residue of longing.
Art&Culture | Spotlight
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/by Editor NastyChloé & Vanessa Beecroft’s Partenope / Naples
A rare convergence of music, myth, fashion, and performance, Partenope marks the long-awaited world premiere of Ennio Morricone’s only opera, staged at Naples’ iconic Teatro di San Carlo. Directed by Vanessa Beecroft and featuring a historic first collaboration with Chloé under Chemena Kamali, the production unfolds as an ethereal tribute to femininity, ritual and the city of Naples itself, where sound, movement, and costume merge into a singular, immersive experience.
Art&Culture | Spotlight
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/by adminThe Pulse We Shared / Stone Festival
In the heart of Essen, amidst the remnants of an industrial past and the vibrant energy of the present, Stone Techno Festival organised by The Third Room collective took place. This event is more than just music; it’s a collective ritual blending history, technology, and underground culture. Three intense days in a place steeped in memory, where every beat tells a story and every sound becomes part of a unique experience
Music | Highlights
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/by Editor NastyAlva Noto / Worship the glitch
Manufacturing sounds while transitioning between music, art and science: German master and musician Alva Noto in conversation with Maria Abramenko, along with an eleven hours mind-blowing selection of tracks for one of the most complex Soundscapes release.
Music | Soundscapes
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/by adminSoundscapes vol.8 / Fecal Matter
A selection for peace and tranquility by Fecal Matter: Hannah Rose Dalton & Steven Raj Bhaskaran of the Montreal-based art-fashion duo with an otherworldly aesthetic.
Music | Soundscapes
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