The impact of extractivism has become a matter of research for contemporary art. Artists and collectives have turned to this issue because of the physical and intangible consequences brought about by neoliberalism. That being, the weakening of governance and the constant deterioration of the environment, caused, in part, by the impact of anthropogenic waste. These […]

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(Español) Como comunidad epupillan tratamos de descentrar el pensamiento binario y desenmarcarnos de las políticas identitarias como […]

For Daniel Buren, part of the group of founders of “institutional criticism” in the early 70s, one of the key problems in contemporary art may be described as a contradiction between the […]

Walking through the desert causes a series of re-encounters with some elements and unusual sensations that many times we have kept marginalized in our daily life. The simple act of moving, in the weathering, confirms that both the murmurs of the wind and the beat of the earth resonate louder and stronger. They exist. They […]

We invited Chilean artist Patricia Domínguez to reflect on what started as a global health crisis and […]

(Español) Octavio y Andrea quisieron recordarnos lo que precisamente nos convierte en lo que somos: la humanidad. Para sorpresa (desconcertante) de muchos […]

Carolina Martínez: Tell me where you come from. In what context did you grow up and what were the first artistic references and influences exogenous to that world? Enrique Ramírez: My father builds boat sails; my mother is a medical technologist, specifically dedicated to the Pap test. So on my dad’s side, I was born […]

Through the recording of the noise of daily life and its own absurdity, the American-Spanish artist […]

Gianfranco Foschino is currently exhibiting “SED” (Thirst), his fourth solo show in the country, at Centro Cultural Matucana 100, curated by Cameron, an exhibition about water […]

What does it mean to talk about the Anthropocene in 2019, knowing the criticisms of its incapacity as a term to reflect on current environmental concerns, transformations, and decay? As many theoreticians, scientists, philosophers and researchers are trying to give up the haunting ghost of the term ‘Anthropocene’, one feels the need to facilitate, to […]

In 1884, the British art critic and social thinker John Ruskin presented a series of lectures at the London Institution entitled “The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century”. In this lecture series he draws on antique and pre-modern descriptions of clouds, in a search to analyse his growing sense of anxiety over the new weather conditions. […]

An immersive new video art project by the artist Maya Watanabe in Madrid tracks the missing and murdered victims of an internal conflict in Peru that took place in the 1980s.

Agnieszka Polska’s The Demons Brain premiered at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof on the 27th of September 2018 and runs through March of this year. Marking last year’s Nationalgalerie Prize-winner’s solo exhibition, Polska has developed a contemporary masterpiece that rethinks the medium of film by bringing space, sound, and time into its own web of narration. The […]

Artsy has named him “The art world’s most controversial economist”. Germany’s most reputable newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has called him “The Great Gatsby of the Art World”. The art blog Hyperallergic simply hates him. Magnus Resch, 33, polarises. Educated in Harvard, the London School of Economics and with a Ph.D. from Hong Kong University and the […]

Carolina Martínez: Tell us about the project “Fungi Museum”. How was born and why? Juan Ferrer: The Fungi Museum (MDH) was born from a project that the Armar Foundation hold in 2015, called “Justice to the Fungi Kingdom”, developed by the curator Camila Marambio joint with Giuliana Furci, director of the Fungi Foundation, Nicolás Arze […]

Sitting at a purple plastic desk in a 9th floor hotel room in central Athens, I look out the window and see the Acropolis, in mid-distance. It is surrounded by construction cranes which I haven’t noticed during the day, working nightshifts on some endless face-lift. The timeless temple makes me think of my art history […]

Can we as artists, as thinkers, somehow connect the water bacteria’s response to some kind of social behavior?

And now that the 10th Berlin Biennale “We do not need another hero” is over, what will happen to the issues we are discussing now when we leave?