carlier | gebauer congratulates Pakui Hardware, who will participate in the Performa Biennial 2025, alongside Lina Lapelyte who will represent Lithuania for this year’s Pavilion Without Walls. For their first ever performance piece, Pakui Hardware will stage an artificial intelligence-led “therapy session structured as a Classical Greek drama.”

For its inaugural exhibition at 5 rue de l’École Normale in Albi, the art centre Le Lait is inviting Spanish artist Leonor Serrano Rivas for her first solo exhibition in France. Leonor Serrano Rivas’ work often draws on medieval history, a time when science, magic and philosophy were interconnected. Rivas is particularly interested in the transmission of knowledge through the spoken word, songs, interwoven patterns and rituals. The artist combines objects, textiles, performances and videos in a multi-layered narrative, creating a poetic source of knowledge and offering immersive journeys that challenge the visitor’s senses. This exhibition, entitled Del Otro Mundo, makes use of the rich tradition of medieval scriptoriums (scribes’ workshops) and the transmission of knowledge through illuminated manuscripts. For this project led in Albi, Rivas focused on a manuscript from the Abbey of Saint-Martial in Limoges containing a collection of tropes — phrases that were inserted into the sung parts of the Mass — written around the year 1000. Through the manuscript, she explored the first signs used for musical notation in medieval times as well as the symbolism of its coloured illumination

Laure Prouvost’s new commissioned installation WE FELT A STAR DYING with LAS Art Foundation, opens on Thursday, 20 February 2025 at Kraftwerk Berlin. In this new commission, Laure Prouvost explores quantum phenomena and their sensitivity to cosmic and planetary forces. 2025 marks a century since quantum physics became established, and today its applications are predicted to enact a paradigm shift in our world. Following two years of research and rare access to a quantum computer, Laure Prouvost presents a multi-sensory new work with LAS. The commission begins with the question: “How could we sense reality from a quantum perspective?” Prouvost draws video, sound, scent, sculpture and scenography together into a fluid installation tuned to the highly sensitive and unpredictable characteristics of quantum computers. It merges Prouvost’s playful ways of shifting audience perception with the counterintuitive logic of quantum physics, aiming to bring audiences into the emerging world of quantum technologies.  

Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory at MCA Australia charts an explosively experimental period in Mehretu’s art and includes more than 80 works by the artist, including significant loans from public and private collections. The exhibition features 36 paintings completed by the artist between 2017 and 2024 alongside several major new painting cycles completed in 2023 and 2024. Many works are presented to the public for the first time, including Mehretu’s most recent TRANSpaintings (2023–2024), while over 50 etchings, drawings and works on paper, from the mid-1990s to now, offer a retrospective of the foundational role of drawing and printmaking in the artist’s practice. Curated by Suzanne Cotter, MCA Australia Director, with Jane Devery, MCA Australia Senior Curator, Exhibitions, Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory charts the artist’s continually evolving investigations into the possibilities of abstraction and its vocabulary of mark-making, from her earliest works on paper to her experimental printmaking, and most recently, the TRANSpaintings series which encourages visitors to experience painting in an entirely new way. Among the exhibition’s highlights are Femenine in nine (2023–2024), a cycle of exuberant black paintings inscribed with iridescent gestural marks. Named after the 1974 musical composition by Julius Eastman, they offer a visual and sonic meditation on conditions of darkness and instability that define the contemporary moment. Also featured are the TRANSpaintings, seven of which are presented for the first time. Supported by the sculptures Upright Brackets by Berlin-based sculptor Nairy Baghramian, these freestanding paintings are physically and visually dynamic and propose an experience of painting as both embodied and participatory.