Maxime Bichon, La poursuite [The chase]
26 March 2024 • Toby Upson
To think about Maxmine Bichon’s first institutional exhibition analogously, I will begin with a quote from Tracy Chevalier’s novel Girl… Read More
26 March 2024 • Toby Upson
To think about Maxmine Bichon’s first institutional exhibition analogously, I will begin with a quote from Tracy Chevalier’s novel Girl… Read More
24 February 2024 • Toby Upson
Composed from a minimal range of surplus materials, Ghislaine Leung’s exhibition Holdings lovingly rescores the ‘infrastructures of dependency’ that animate… Read More
12 February 2024 • Toby Upson
Not a flash pan fad but thick formal plots. Alexis Hunter’s 10 Seconds images acts of revolt which demand we… Read More
21 November 2023 • Toby Upson
Balance. Fountain. Personally, the title of Nari Ward’s first UK exhibition is patterned with a joyous feel.
28 October 2023 • Toby Upson
It felt harrow. The weight of white-washed walls rising. Here, that is there, space was made thick, or disturbingly claustrophobic, through an empty, automated, ambience.
14 September 2023 • Toby Upson
Various Others is an initiative based on collaboration. Its format is simple: museums, galleries, artist-run-spaces, collectors, curators (etc. etc.) based in Munich (Germany) invite museums, galleries, artist-run-spaces, collectors, curators (etc. etc.)
9 September 2023 • Toby Upson
Let’s suspend the narrative. Toleranzfenster [Window of Tolerance], WangShui’s first institutional exhibition in Europe, is a super-real entanglement.
30 August 2023 • Toby Upson
Personally, I’m off to Munich for Various Others; an ‘international format,’ where art spaces across the city invite galleries, curators, artists and various other art entities from elsewhere to realise a project together as part of the 17-day celebration.
13 June 2023 • Toby Upson
It is hot. Things are heating up. Steaming. Basel Art Week marks the start of high summer; a time of… Read More
17 May 2023 • Toby Upson
Across two museological sites—the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent (S.M.A.K.) and The FOMU Fotomuseum of Antwerp (FOMU)—Grace Ndiritu takes up something of the poetic sentiment flowing beneath Borges’ softly spoken words.
9 April 2023 • Toby Upson
The exhibition space is bare. White walls and concrete floors, regimented columns and weepy skylights. Skylights that clatter and pour;… Read More
3 March 2023 • Toby Upson
The gift of poison and bodies in affectful space. Iris Touliatou at Kunsthalle Basel.
16 December 2022 • Toby Upson
Decolonial Ecologies. Understanding Postcolonial After Socialism (Riga Art Space, November 1 2022 – January 15 2023)
1 December 2022 • Toby Upson
Nebojša Yamasaki Vulkelic’s Walking Within A Slow Future (Galerija Doma Omladine Beograda, November 15-17, 2022)is a touching exhibition. Curated by Lav Mrenovic, the show brings together a series of recent drawings, with an ambient soundtrack and poem.
3 November 2022 • Toby Upson
“You humming.” “Huh?” Ksh-ksh-ksh ksh-ksh-ksh ksh-ksh-ksh, dum-da-du
8 August 2022 • Toby Upson
iPhones have pretty good cameras. More than just rendering a subject in high-resolution, they can endow a sense of affective… Read More
27 May 2022 • Toby Upson
Trees: here, quiet witnesses. Here they quiver, they croon, singing through a crisp heat in an arid landscape. Relaying part… Read More