Wish You Were Here / Banks Violette
Wish You Were Here at TICK TACK in Antwerp unfolds as an exhibition that begins from the very first look while on the street and lingers like a tormented presence long after leaving the space. Curated by Maria Abramenko, the show weaves personal loss and collective anxiety into a dense, haunted narrative where fire, sound and spectral images become carriers of memory. Open until 21 March 2026, it invites the viewer into an experience that is less about passive looking and more about actively inhabiting grief.
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/by Editor NastyThe Primal Gesture / Sofia Geideby
Sofia Geideby, master hair stylist and crowned Hairdresser of the Year 2025 in Sweden, believes in pushing the boundaries of creation and has found a way to express and channel her creativity through an intimate—almost primal—medium: hair. In this interview, we follow her belief system when it comes to her craft, her inspiration and creative process.
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/by Editor NastyStory Of The Eye / Four Chambers
The Story of the Eye by Four Chambers returns to that raw territory, where the body is neither symbol nor spectacle, but material, impulse, and archive. Presented as an immersive, living environment, the project dismantles inherited ways of looking at imagery and repositions sexuality as a site of artistic research, authorship, and agency.
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/by adminLiminals, Pierre Huyghe / Berghain
Berlin’s industrial heart once again becomes a site of perception and speculation as Halle am Berghain opens its doors to Liminals, the latest body of work by Pierre Huyghe.
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/by adminStilllife
She practices disappearance in daylight and becomes it after dark. Her body learns the grammar of stillness and the rooms she enters forget to count her among the living. Words and analog images by Pedro Soenen.
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/by adminDavid Lynch / Pace Gallery Berlin
Pace Gallery Berlin presents a focused exhibition of David Lynch, on view from January 29 to March 22, 2026, exploring the artist’s multidisciplinary practice across painting, sculpture, photography, and early film. The show precedes a major exhibition in fall 2026 at Pace Gallery Los Angeles.
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/by adminUnveiling 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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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/by Editor NastyLove 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.
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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.
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/by adminFantasy Vanishes in Flesh / Ivana Bašić
Ivana Bašić’s exhibition at Galleria Francesca Minini in Milan remains open only until 12th December. This is the very last chance to experience a show that gathers together archaic materials, hybrid bodies and a profound meditation on transformation and birth.
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/by Editor NastyWrapped in Flesh and Blood / Antoine d’Agata
Approaching fear, vulnerability, and intimacy, along with the philosophical and political dimensions that shape his relentless exploration of human experience, in this conversation Antoine d’Agata offers a rare insight into the mind of an artist whose vision is inseparable from the intensity of the life he inhabits.
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/by Editor NastyPower for Art’s Sake / Reading Pyotr Pavlensky’s Subject–Object Art Theory
Through a dense network of references, from Baroque tenebrism to Courbet’s Salon des Refusés and the long tradition of art enlisted in service of political authority, in his latest book artist Pyotr Pavlensky maps the intellectual architecture behind his practice.
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/by Editor NastyC280: Machine Of Loving Grace / Jesse Draxler
At Art Basel Miami, the American artist's installation turns the 1997 Mercedes C280 into a drifting witness to the fragmentary pulse of the road. In collaboration with The Patina Collective, the work unfolds as a meditation on the human-machine relationship, where moments dissolve into rhythm, emotion flickers through metal, and the journey becomes both physical and psychological.
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/by Editor NastyLeonora Carrington / Palazzo Reale
At Palazzo Reale in Milan, a major retrospective brings Leonora Carrington’s imagination into focus through more than sixty works that trace her journey from England to Mexico, from surrealist rebellion to spiritual transcendence. Curated through thematic chapters, each weaving together her life and artistic metamorphoses, the exhibition illuminates how Carrington transformed the dream into an instrument of knowledge, and art into a laboratory of female liberation.
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