“Do you really need to fly to talk to your colleagues?” According to the Caribbean artist and designer KIM1995, the answer is no. In the era of digital communication, in which information moves quickly, KIM1995 has decided to practice a concept she calls “Sustainable Immobility.” So as not...

REM KOOLHAAS’ RURAL SUBLIME

Or the capitalist industrialization of the countryside

Countryside, The Future at New York’s Guggenheim sees the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas heading out of the cities for new pastures. But in a show that he describes as being about sociology, anthropology and politics, is its meaning or relevance like trying to find a needle in a haystack?

Domestic Chaos

What’s so great about streamlining?

Imagine if Albert Einstein had lived with the queen of decluttering Marie Kondo. A slight tension might have arisen when, in between Kondo organising categories of joyful order, Einstein was wandering around the house muttering his oft-quoted remark, “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered...

Research & Realities

Rudbish

A conceptual visualization of waste finding it’s way back onto your place. The project by chef and designer Diedriek Schneemann and photographer Aldwin van Krimpen responds to the Nature/Nurture theme […]

A Labour of Love

Fashion designer Kris Van Assche of Berluti and gallery owner François Laffanour discovered a shared passion for the furniture Pierre Jeanneret designed for Chandigarh. With their joint skills coming together, a limited edition collection has restored and revived the originals.

Domesticated Enclosures

The Great Wall of China. The Garden of Eden. The Berlin Wall. The Maginot Line. The Atlantic Wall. The Walls of Constantinople. The Western Wall. And if he has his way, Trump’s dream of a "big, beautiful wall" between the US and Mexico. All these walls individually present their own division bet...

Enlivening the Seine

Setting tongues wagging

Architects in the Age of Trump

Going Mobile

AXOR, STORIES OF LIFE

Places of Memory

DROWNING IN DATA

Information Art

Sol LeWitt

The Architect without Function

Cultural Calendar

Minia Biabiany, Musa Nuit

La Verrière Brussel

Thomas Demand, “House of Cards”

In the autumn of 2020, M is presenting a major solo exhibition of Thomas Demand’s work, with a focus on his relationship to architecture. Spread across three rooms, M is exhibiting his […]

The Eye of the Storm

Blitz Valletta has launched a new website with a platform called OPEN. “The Eye of the Storm” is Blitz’s first online exhibition featuring videos and films by seven international artists and […]

Sincere Intentions

For the first time Robert Grunenberg Gallery in Berlin is showing the core gallery program with their four artists Stefan Knauf, Brandon Lipchik, Sonja Yakovleva and Jan Zöller all together. Along with […]

Serial Eater, food design stories

Designed by the curator Benjamin Stoz, the exhibition at the CID – centre d’innovation et de design at the Grand-Hornu analyses thirty years of experimentation and reflections around the subject of “food as an object”. […]

Beeline by SO – IL at maat, Lisbon

Beeline is an unprecedented architectural intervention commissioned to the New York-based studio SO – IL that occupies the entirety of maat’s building. SO – IL’s largest piece of ephemeral architecture […]

Long Reads

Locating Design

KIM1995: staying put