Urban Art Events

Asia, The Apparatus

Asia, The Apparatus Venue: National Asian Culture Center (ACC) Location: Gwangju, South Korea Marking the ACC's tenth anniversary, this show gathers a decade of experimental film and video collected from across Asia. It reads "apparatus" two ways: the camera and projector, and the institutions that capture, cut, and reorder memory. Through three stages, Dictation, Representation, Rewriting, it brings the region's many histories and silenced voices back into view.

2 days ago3 min read

How Frieze Is Redefining the Art Fair Experience in London

Frieze Expands Its Global Reach for London 2026 As the international art world looks ahead to autumn, Frieze has unveiled plans for its 2026 editions of Frieze London and Frieze Masters, signaling continued growth for one of the most influential gatherings on the cultural calendar. Taking place from October 14 to 18 in Regent’s Park, the twin fairs will bring together nearly 300 galleries representing 48 countries and regions, reinforcing London’s role as a key meeting point

Jun 143 min read

The Children’s Game of Connect the Dots in the Curator’s Adult Scenography

Bringing together historical works from the Nina Miller Collection with contemporary practices, NEITHER / NOR: The Intimate Geography of Contradictions at Indra Gallery explores the shifting tension between figuration and abstraction through a curatorial scenography that invites the viewer to mentally “connect the dots” across generations of artistic language.

Mar 106 min read

The Children’s Game of Connect the Dots in the Curator’s Adult Scenography

Mar 106 min read

From Oil to Art to Influence

Art Basel Qatar 2026 proved that in the Gulf, art is no longer just culture — it’s currency, strategy and soft power all at once.

Mar 26 min read

Towards the Celestial Empire. New Art of China

Among Chinese artists, 55-year-old Zhang Huan is considered a contemporary art luminary, second only to Ai Weiwei. His artistic journey...

Mar 20, 20252 min read

Through Fears and Illusions: Anne Imhof

Paris has recently experienced a resurgence of excitement, particularly this autumn, following the lifting of the last health...

Jul 4, 20243 min read

Ambiguities of Possession in the Administrative Imaginary

The archive is not preserved; it is fatigued. Loss emerges not from absence but from excess administrative intervention.

Apr 15, 20244 min read

Duplication as Disruption and the Poetics of Near Symmetry

Duplication unsettles: near symmetry fractures into difference, where fragility becomes the condition for relation.

Sep 15, 20234 min read

Combustion Without Witness

Not an exhibition but aftermath: matter lingers, unstable, unspectacular—where combustion has ceased, but its heat remains.

Sep 14, 20234 min read

Interdisciplinary Quadrennial. Impressions from Prague

The Prague Quadrennial (PQ) stands as a distinguished international competitive exhibition, showcasing scenography, theatre architecture,...

May 3, 20232 min read

Bleeding Edges: Painting as Psychic Residue in a Post-Tactile Age

Grief made atmospheric—images unravel, refusing resolution, holding only what presence fails to contain.

Mar 28, 20233 min read

The Slow Violence of Attention within Post-Digital Aesthetic Experience

Dmitrieva’s analogue practice challenges the accelerated visual regimes of the post-digital world, using masked and vegetal figures to interrupt the demand for clarity, recognition, and instant meaning. Her slow, tactile method becomes a counter-technology that restores attention as a material practice, allowing subjectivity to emerge as porous, provisional, and resistant to imposed narratives.

Feb 19, 20234 min read