10 Works that stood out at Contemporary Istanbul 2026
27 September 2026 • Camille Moreno
Ten works that made us stop, think and want to write home from Contemporary Istanbul 2026.
Author: Camille Moreno
Camille Moreno is a Costa Rican-American writer and curator based in London. Her writing explores the role of art within the mechanisms of social order by highlighting the relatable and quotidian elements of the extraordinary as well as the fantastic within the ordinary. She has written for cultural publications in Germany, the USA, and the UK.
A not-so-comprehensive guide to a Week of Art in Berlin (WAB).
10 September 2026 • Camille Moreno
A not-so-comprehensive guide to Berlin Art Week, where diaspora, migration, memory and belonging emerge across the city.
Sophia Süßmilch on Performance, Rage, and Politics of the Body
7 September 2026 • Camille Moreno
Sophia Süßmilch talks female rage, naked bodies, suffering and why performance art doesn’t always need pain to test its boundaries.
How Many More Things Need to Be Crocheted Before We Ask Why? Ingrid Wiener and the Afterlife of Textile Art
30 July 2026 • Camille Moreno
Ingrid Wiener’s handwoven tapestries transformed everyday objects into works of sustained attention long before textile art entered the mainstream.
Florentina Holzinger Turns Spectacle into an Act of Care
10 June 2026 • Camille Moreno
Nine-hour performance sees Florentina Holzinger transform spectacle, risk and nudity into a meditation on trust, care and collective experience.
This is Patti Smith in Vienna.
27 May 2026 • Camille Moreno
Patti Smith’s Arena Vienna performance moved through dreams, stories and political urgency, revealing an artist still creating with the same conviction decades on.
Mayday, May Day! Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026
5 May 2026 • Camille Moreno
A critical dispatch from Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026, exploring the tension between commerce, politics and artistic dissent —
CI Bloom Istanbul: An Emerging Fair in a Decentred Art World
20 April 2026 • Camille Moreno
BLOOM, in that sense, feels less like a snapshot of an art world and more like a diagram of both un- and re-artworlding.
Review: Thomias Radin, Echoes of KA at Esther Schipper, Berlin
7 April 2026 • Camille Moreno
Thomias Radin’s Echoes of Ka at Esther Schipper explores Caribbean philosophy, Gwoka dance and embodied painting through immersive installation.
transmediale 2026: Mapping the Hidden Politics of Networks at CANK Neukölln
5 February 2026 • Camille Moreno
In a time when digital systems claim to connect us but encroach on privacy, control, and consent, transmediale 2026 stages a reckoning with networks.
Pension ABC at CFA Berlin turns temporary living into a seductive instability
19 January 2026 • Camille Moreno
But what it is really staging is a distinct poetic talent: the ability to make structural instability a vibe.
Fondation Opale presents ROOTS: REVIEW
29 December 2025 • Camille Moreno
It’s not every day we encounter something truly majestic.
We talk to John M. Armleder about Encore(s) at MAMCO Geneva
9 December 2025 • Camille Moreno
We cornered Armleder just before the opening to “talk shop”, from Duchamp and books to the unpredictable pleasures of fate
Arson Suspected at London Kabinett Gallery
5 November 2025 • Camille Moreno
When my phone pinged on a chilly Sunday morning in Berlin, I wasn’t expecting what appeared on screen.
Review: More Than Meets the Eye at Rath Museum
23 October 2025 • Camille Moreno
A series of dimly lit rooms unfold across two levels, each softly upholstered from floor to ceiling in luminous, velvety finishes.
5 to See at Berlin Art Week
12 September 2025 • Camille Moreno
Berlin Art Week is one of those things that has been around so long, we no longer really question where it came from and why it exists in the first place.
10 to see at RA Summer Show 2025
11 August 2025 • Camille Moreno
Of the over 1,700 works on exhibit, we selected 10 pieces that caught our fancy.
Review: Mario García Torres, A History of Influence at Fridericianum.
18 July 2025 • Camille Moreno
Mario García Torres stages its quiet return – or something like it – featuring a reimagined version of the song.
Hermann Nitsch’s The Orgies Mysteries Theatre
7 July 2025 • Camille Moreno
You’re not sure if it’s a wedding, a funeral, or some flavour of sordid sexual libation. In fact, words have yet to capture the oblivion of this experience.
The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish
17 June 2025 • Camille Moreno
Fish arrives in the German state of Brandenburg to celebrate its sixth incarnation and first major publication —
La Genevoise Carte blanche to Carol Bove
22 April 2025 • Camille Moreno
However, performative spectatorship may be something that can heal our relationship to the museum
Sexy on a Shoestring
21 February 2025 • Camille Moreno
Berlin’s historic contemporary art institute KW re-opens
Last Chance: Antonio Obá, Rituals of Care
5 February 2025 • Camille Moreno
Eight boys rejoice against blue skies and cotton clouds. Behind them; a field of yellow blossoms. In front of them; a single, un-plucked cotton flower.
10 at Art Genève 2025 chosen by Camille Moreno.
1 February 2025 • Camille Moreno
Yes, it is a fair. But it is also a mood — and a welcome aberration for this genre to have considered empty space and integrated rest areas as curatorial tools.