Elsewhere
Solo Exhibition
Tarik Kiswanson | The Relief
Institut suédois, Paris
Tarik Kiswanson’s exhibition The Relief at the Institut suédois explores memory, trauma, and regeneration through new sculptures and videos. Through sculptures and videos, Tarik Kiswanson explores themes of memory, trauma, and regeneration. How do the dark moments of our collective history inform the present? What can they teach us about the human condition? How do we endure trauma, and how do we possibly rebuild? These questions are central to Tarik Kiswanson’s practice and his exhibition “The Relief” at the Institut suédois, in which most of the works are newly produced and all are being shown in France for the first time. In his exhibitions, Kiswanson blurs the lines between the architecture and the artwork itself, disrupting our spatial perception. His works depict transitional states – through the interweaving of forms, materials, and expressions anchored in specific places, he creates transformative spaces.
Solo Exhibition
Paul Pfeiffer | Vitruvian Figure (Juventus)
Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin
For his intervention at Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin, Paul Pfeiffer created Vitruvian Figure (Juventus) in collaboration with Juventus. The work features an immersive sound installation and a large-format image, displayed on billboards at two distinct points along the Pista 500. Since the 1990s, Paul Pfeiffer has developed a highly interdisciplinary artistic practice, encompassing video, photography, sound, installation, and sculpture. A central theme of his work is the exploration of moments intended for a mass audience, such as sporting and religious events, concerts, and television game shows, often leading to questions of spectacle, belonging, and difference. Pfeiffer analyzes not only the experience of the live event, when stadiums fill with fans, but also its extension through media broadcasting, which allows it to reach millions of people. In these moments, the notion of the individual is suspended, for both the spectator and the star, albeit in opposing ways: while celebrity is elevated and isolated from the rest, the spectator merges with the mass, merging with the crowd to become part of a greater whole. With Vitruvian Figure (Juventus), Pfeiffer continues his decades-long investigation of collective behavior and spectacle, while responding to the specific history of the city and the Lingotto, a site linked to performance, speed, and the production of objects for mass consumption and desire. His incisive work engages audiences on both intellectual and visceral levels, revealing how the architecture of gathering spaces shapes our cultural identity and the ways we relate to one another.
Solo Exhibition
Erik Schmidt | The Rise and Fall of Erik Schmidt
KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
On Saturday, 13 September 2025, Erik Schmidt’s mid-career survey exhibition ‘The Rise and Fall of Erik Schmidt’ will open at KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst. The exhibition offers a comprehensive view of Erik Schmidt’s practice, encompassing not only his acclaimed paintings but also significant works in video, performance, photography, collage and drawing. At KINDL you can explore the breadth and complexity of Erik’s artistic practice that has evolved over four decades. Curated by Yara Sonseca Mas
Biennial Presentation
Pakui Hardware | Black Bile – Bukhara Biennial
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Pakui Hardware‘s presentation for the Bukhara Biennial 2025 explores Ibn Sina’s contributions to psychology and psychiatry, particularly his studies on melancholy and healing methods. It examines historical theories of black bile in relation to modern medical findings and contrasts traditional human-centered healing with contemporary AI-driven therapy. The Rakhimov family of ceramicists developed a proprietary black ceramic glaze that inspired the collaboration. The multi-part installation features interconnected listening and healing spaces across two sites, the caravanserai and Rashid Madrassa, incorporating stainless steel tubing and organic ceramic sculptures that collect and emit sound. Visitors will share thoughts through hand-crafted ceramic listening devices that record and transform them into sound pieces that communicate across the two sites, with recordings deleted for privacy.
Solo Exhibition
Asta Gröting | Ein Wolf, Primaten und eine Atemkurve
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
The Städel Museum presents a solo exhibition of Asta Gröting’s work, featuring eight works created between 2015 and 2025, including seven video works and one laser projection specially developed for the exhibition. This selection enables to experience the fluid transitions between nature and culture, intimacy and distance, the familiar and the foreign. The videos capture or stage moments from Gröting’s own environment and human existence. Her deliberate manipulation of time lends the works a particular intensity. Asta Gröting’s films are more than visual representations of our environment: they open up contemplative spaces that encourage reflection on the intricacies of hidden relationships and their dynamics. Through her work, Gröting shows how art can act as a medium for interpersonal connections by capturing intimate and intense encounters. Her sensitive translation of captivating moments into moving images invites to explore the subtle, often hidden liminal states of existence, and experience the poetry of the moment anew.