In “Physical Culture,” Lithuanian artist Augustas Serapinas’s current exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, visitors are invited into a hybrid performance space, drawing studio, and fully operational gym, where a range of Jesmonite sculptures have replaced conventional weights.
vanessa german: leap, all who are heavy laden
vanessa german’s “…do you remember when you were the sky?” is dedicated to the residents of the Colored Girls Dormitory of the Louisville Industrial School of Reform (constructed in 1894–96). Though this former space of enclosure has largely been lost to memory, the original building remains, just a stone’s throw away from german’s exhibition at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
Esculturas que danzan con el viento: Una Conversación con Alberto Cavalieri
Las esculturas de Alberto Cavalieri destacan por su monumentalidad, tanto en emplazamientos indoor como en la vía pública, interactuando con el casco urbano y su arquitectura.
Mary Miss’s Photodrawings: Temporal Experience of Place
Photography typically tells a story or records an event. For Mary Miss, it does both. Her photodrawings, as she calls them, not only document her indoor and outdoor installations, but also give viewers a sense of the architectural character of her constructions.
CFGNY: The Matter of Mediation, the Labor of Maintenance
A full-size stepped bridge wrapped in brown synthetic fur straddles the front gallery of Amant in Brooklyn, arching above the concrete floor. Around it, 20 glazed ceramic tiles are arranged on mirror-topped, framework plinths of varying heights to construct an uneven terrain.
Taking Risks: A Conversation with Axel Straschnoy
Helsinki-based Argentinian artist and filmmaker Axel Straschnoy probes scientific phenomena, astronautics, and the social and political facets of the human quest for knowledge. His conceptually inflected, research-driven projects can take many forms, yet they remain connected by a wide-angled, dynamic approach.
Peaceful Terrain: A Conversation with Igshaan Adams
Igshaan Adams weaves everyday materials—beads, chains, twine, fabric, plastic, wood, and wire—into mesmeric sculptural installations. His interest in weaving grew from childhood encounters with the baskets that his family collected in Bonteheuwel, a Cape Town suburb, and reflects his memories of apartheid-era South Africa.
Fracturas del lenguaje: Una Conversación con Michele Lorusso
Nacido en Puerto Vallarta, México, Michele Lorusso obtuvo su maestría en Artes (MFA) en CalArts (California) en 2025, y estudió Creación Literaria y Literatura en la Universidad para su licenciatura en Casa Lamm (Ciudad de México) en 2014 y en Naropa University (Colorado) en 2016 donde se graduó.
Language Is Just Skin: A Conversation with Thomas Müller
Thomas Müller’s practice highlights the importance of the handmade and the meaning of material choices in an odd way. His work relies on inbuilt contradictions of intact/broken, coherent/indistinct, permanent/ephemeral, and manifest/implied, which all relate closely to the still-life trope and its associations with life, decay, and death.
A Better Truth: A Conversation with Alison Saar
At 70 years old, Alison Saar is looking forward to expanding the size of her studio so she can take on larger, more ambitious projects. Showing no signs of letting up or slowing down, she continues to explore family, spirituality, and race, mostly through the female form, drawing on a wealth of references and traditions
