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Following successful treatment programs at Tate Modern, Delfina Foundation, London, at the New Museum Triennial in New York, at the Zürcher Theater Spektakel, at Atelier Hermès in Seoul and the Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Geumhyung Jeong brings her revolutionary rejuvenating styling and grooming regime to Berlin. With product demonstrations and new beauty techniques, participants will be introduced […]

In the first days of summer, Tianzhuo Chen came to Berlin to open up his hybrid universe, Zhuangzi’s dream of the butterfly.

(中文) 对我而言海是暴君。从小我就站在海边，望着这片狰狞。我终不能跳进大海，成为海，因此我诅咒大海的暴虐，深海龙王的臂弯，轻而易举的就能把幸存者的脊背折断。父亲的鱼塘是另一片浮动，没有风。

Uzumaki is the name of a Japanese manga published from 1998 to 1999. Its author Junji Ito used the shape of a spiral as a form of horror. Spirals are generally regarded positively in Japanese society, so the challenge of Uzumaki was to take the mysterious pattern as larger than humanity’s capability for understanding and twist it into a terrible force.

Amidst the proliferation of private art museums in Shanghai and around China, smaller collector spaces are also opening with more modest but also more focused ambitions. Influential Shanghai collectors, Andrew and Lingling Ruff, opened 166 Art Space in late 2017. Its third show, curated by Josef Ng, opens this month. Ran Dian: Andrew, what brought […]

John Baldessari’s “Ear Sofa; Nose Sconces with Flowers (in Stage Setting)”, 2009/2017, was the best and weirdest thing at Unlimited, including when the model got some dust in her eye

They represent acts of retreat from the world but they are uncertain paradises. Mere escape is not a refuge, and perhaps they doth protest too little.

Memes and power, language and sex, politics and history are all fodder for louche anthropological experiments in Xu Zhen’s first major solo show in France which recently opened at Perrotin in Paris. “Civilization Iteration” develops themes of cultural hybridity (including sexual and evolutionary) first exhibited in the exhibition in 2009 that launched his corporate alter-ego […]