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Uncovered / Jovan Studio
Art&Culture | Interview
Serbian multidisciplinary artist Jovan Stevanovic, founder of Jovan Studio, blends 3D precision with raw emotion, crafting surreal yet familiar worlds that blur the line between reality and digital fantasy. This interview unveils the creative force behind his futuristic, boundary-pushing vision.

Digging Wounds / Shirin Neshat
Art&Culture | Spotlight
If there is an image that can capture Shirin Neshat’s work, it is a wound first touched, the finger sliding over old cuts once stitched together. In this three-voice interview we confront both her major works and her newest pieces, tracing the tangled threads between her art and the geopolitical violence unfolding around us.

Shell
Fashion | Exclusive
The shell is not what’s left behind. It’s what’s built to hold everything together that’s becoming. To remember what it means to move through the world as both ghost and shell, shape and soul. A series by Tiana Lenz and Elena Kasnatschejew.

Into a Blind Emptiness / She Past Away
Music | Interview
Buried in shadows and driven by the tension of East and West, She Past Away crafts a world where repetition and restraint conjure both trance and unease. In this conversation, the Turkish darkwave duo traces their journey from the underground pulse of Istanbul to the danceable melancholy of Disko Anksiyete, revealing how language, ritual, and cultural fracture shape their music.

Road to Spatial Festival 2025
Music | Spotlight
SPATIAL Festival by Monom Studios returns to Funkhaus Berlin from September 12 to 14, 2025, with its most expansive edition yet. Spanning the venue’s iconic halls, the program brings together more than 60 pioneering artists for three days of deep listening sessions, live performances, and immersive installations.

Listening Room / Music at the Edge
Music | Spotlight
The liminal zones between collapse and transformation, ritual and noise, beauty and decay. Whether through meditative erosions, or glitch-drenched liturgies, the music featured in this edition is united by its commitment to disobedience, its resistance to order, and its ability to turn rupture into revelation. In this edition: Ulver, Kashaiof, The Pleasure Majenta, Gertie Adelaide.

The Antihero / Tamta
Music | Interview
All about "The Villain Heroine", the bold new album from electro-pop, fashion, and queer icon Tamta.
Here in a fashion story inspired by her latest two projects that merges the expected qualities of each archetype into one.

Beyond Basics / Mens Eroticwear by Anoeses
Fashion | Spotlight
Anoeses turns a new page with Beyond Basics. A men’s collection stripped to its core: clean lines, high quality, effortless seduction. Pieces made to move: from home to night, from quiet to wild.

Intersection of Chaos / Inside the World of Lady Tazz
Music | Interview
Born in Montreal, raised in Dhaka, and shaped by Toronto’s underground, Lady Tazz has lived more lives than most artists ever dare to. Her presence is deliberate, and her sets are defined by speed, sensuality, and control. She founded Mind Medizin as a platform for artists who challenge the conventions of the electronic music industry, a space for sound that is stripped-back, forceful, and unconcerned with mainstream appeal. Lady Tazz approaches music with intent, and everything she builds is made to last.

Fragments of the Self / Francois X
Music | Interview
In a time where identity is often packaged, flattened, and made palatable for algorithmic feeds, François X resists easy definition. Born between Corsica and Benin, shaped by sounds that stretch from the vinyl stacks of Fania Records to the raw pulse of Parisian club nights, his music is neither fusion nor collage. It’s something more elemental, a process of remembering, returning, resisting.

Glenn Martens’ debut at Maison Margiela
Fashion | Spotlight
For his debut at the helm of Maison Margiela, Glenn Martens stages a ghostly procession inside crumbling walls. Between echoes of Martin Margiela’s legacy and the romantic dissonance of John Galliano’s spectacle, Martens delivers a couture collection that is both deeply autobiographical and politically charged.

Past-self
Fashion | Exclusive
Before the hum of machines and the rush of minutes, the world moved with a quieter rhythm. Trees unmoved by passing empires whispered secrets in a language of leaves, and rivers sang songs worn smooth by centuries. A fashion story photographed by Andrea Mauro.
