Tag Archive for: art

Carsten Höller x Kulm Hotel / St. Moritz

Art&Culture | Spotlight
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.

Esoterrorist / Lust for Paper

Art&Culture | Spotlight
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.

Love Will Tear Us Apart / Ben Frost

Art&Culture | Spotlight
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.

Chloé & Vanessa Beecroft’s Partenope / Naples

Art&Culture | Spotlight
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.

Fantasy Vanishes in Flesh / Ivana Bašić

Art&Culture | Spotlight
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.

Wrapped in Flesh and Blood / Antoine d’Agata

Art&Culture | Spotlight
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.

Power for Art’s Sake / Reading Pyotr Pavlensky’s Subject–Object Art Theory

Art&Culture | Spotlight
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.

Madonne / Lust for Paper

Private | Spotlight
Madonne moves through the charged space where flesh meets scripture, where devotion merges with desire. Latex, rope, and trembling bodies turn pain into a form of worship, exposing a raw blend of surrender and power. The work reveals a world where holiness and fetish intertwine, challenging the boundaries of sin, freedom, and ritual.

Love’s Secret Domain / Noelia Towers

Art&Culture | Interview
In artist’s work, innocence clashes with experience, and every muted colour, hidden face, or subtle gesture carries a perception of delicacy in contrast with a strong unspoken.

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.

Words that Matter / Damon Zucconi

Art&Culture | Interview
“Online, I want the work to live forever” he affirms when asked about how his work interacts differently within the digital and physical realm. Having a foundation as a sculpture, it was through programming that artist Damon Zucconi first started to evaluate words as the raw material from which to shape his coded-based art: a shift of paradigm that brought him to view text as a matter with its own agency.

DANCÆ Ballet Sur_real / Modalities of Me

Art&Culture | Spotlight
Berlin hums with unfinished echoes, a city built on fractures and in-betweens. At Monopol, Ballet Sur_real fuses dance and installation in Modalities of Me. Five figures embody power, chaos, fragility, and ferality, exploring desire, intimacy, and identity through club culture, digital life, and hyper-capitalist pressures. A body becomes a question, a space becomes alive, and identity splinters into light, sound, and shadow.