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The Portikus exhibition hall, newly built in 2006 on an island in the river Main and attached via a plank to Frankfurt's historical Alte Brucke, or Old Bridge, doesn't exactly [...]

In her first institutional solo presentation, dancer, choreographer, and performance artist Alexandra Bachzetsis redefined the term show in the museum context. 'SHOW' consisted of five evenings of performance spread across [...]

It is the human being--not its ego--that stands at the center of Mark Wallinger's work. And that distinguishes him from the YBAs with whom he was once associated. His Ecce [...]

Six years after a comprehensive solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, Rachel Khedoori returned to Switzerland for her second solo show at Hauser & Wirth Zurich. Interiors--spaces inhabited both physically and [...]

As if questioning if, or how, context changes content, Ibon Aranberri titled his recent show 'Integration.' The minimal installation featured three projects from the past seven years--of which only one [...]

An ill-fated attempt to fold a paper crane from memory gave the title to Simon Dybbroe Moller's most comprehensive museum show thus far, 'Like Origami Gone Wrong.' The exhibition was [...]

The work of the Swiss duo Andres Lutz and Anders Guggisberg, much like that of their predecessors Fischli & Weiss, inspires critics to speak of a 'cosmos' rather than an [...]

Though the pairing of Romanticism with Conceptual art is hardly common in art-historical writing, Conceptual art has long been misunderstood as a necessarily dry affair. Even Sol LeWitt, who famously [...]

Known for his meticulous re-creations of places and spaces of the past, such as D.O.M., 2004, a reconstruction of a late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century Polish graveyard that he showed at Galerie Johnen in [...]

In the picturesque baroque city of Solothurn, Costa Vece presented a dark take on the notions of cultural identity, religion, and Heimat (homeland), and, ultimately, on the very possibility of [...]

Gustav Metzger has always worked against the art market, rather than for it. In 1959, he articulated his concept of autodestructive art in a manifesto--an adaptation of Theodor Adorno's argument [...]

What if one could freeze a moment in time--or, more precisely, slow it down until its motion became almost ungraspable? And what if one could then freely move around in [...]

Jan Mancuska's recent exhibition, 'Only those wild species that appeal to people will survive,' was an unswerving assault on the linearity of audiovisual perception and spatial movement, in which a [...]

For the Hague- and Berlin-based artist Marcel van Eeden, it seems, the word death refers to the time before one's life as well as after its end. His 'Encyclopedia of [...]

White cube, black flag, carte blanche ... these catchphrases recur as visual metaphors throughout Luca Vitone's oeuvre, which investigates the meaning--and loss--of 'place' within a globalized world. This major survey [...]

Producing a 1.5-liter PET plastic bottle wastes twice as much water as the bottle will hold. That's the kind of fact you learn through the work of Berlin-based Danish artist [...]

On New Year's morning last year, Steven Parrino, aged forty-six, died in a motorcycle accident near his Brooklyn home. A bit more than a year after his death, 'Steven Parrino, [...]

'Rellik,' the title of young Swiss artist Valentin Carron's debut, refers to the English word 'relic' with its span of connotations, from disdained leftover to religious veneration. Reading it backward, [...]

Basel-born and -based Christoph Buchel is known as a master of incommodiousness. In his recent installation HOLE, 2005, he confronts us once more with a meticulously staged worst-case scenario. And [...]

As Jeff Wall remarked about this retrospective at the press conference, it's most likely the biggest show he'll ever have. And, indeed, with seventy-two works 'Jeff Wall: Photographs, 1978-2004' brought [...]