All in art
At Fondazione Prada in Milan, "Global Antiquity" closes the cycle that Salvatore Settis and Rem Koolhaas began in 2015, following 1,600 years of exchange between the Mediterranean and Asia through more than 150 artworks and artifacts. COEVAL spoke with Giulio Margheri of AMO/OMA, who designed the exhibition with Koolhaas, about raw iron beams, green fiberglass, a single horizon for every object and a map drawn with many points and many lines.
For Remote Control, her second solo show at MATTA in Milan, Clara Hastrup wires a Sony radio, a floor lamp and a row of kitchen vessels to the wind outside the gallery and the tide in the Venice Lagoon. The exhibition is on view until 14 November 2026.
Roxy Ceron’s Liminal Zone is a project oscillating between archaic symbols and contemporary technologies, unfolding through performance, moving image, sound, and installation as an evolving field of transformation.
She’s spent years filming friends, strangers and dancers around the world, so now feels like the perfect time to look back at Rebecca Salvadori’s extensive career and discuss the importance of electronic music, collaborations and directing.
Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi look back on their trilogy at Venice's Complesso dell'Ospedaletto and reflect on what it means to curate moving images today.
At The Wings of Peace in Paris, ORLAN shows a dove sculpture, a reworked Courbet and screaming self-portraits. She talks about war, censorship and the body as a political medium.
Berlin choreographer Franka Marlene Foth founded the collective FMKF to place dance at the centre of stage, film, fashion and music. Fresh from a collaboration with CHANEL and the release of the album FMKF Archives 2021-2025, she talks to COEVAL about music, cinema, speed and shedding old skin.
Museion in Bolzano closes the first comprehensive European retrospective of RAMMELLZEE with TIME:LINE, a chapter devoted to the artist's ties with Italy. Letters on wheels, a 150 kilo exoskeleton and paintings that glow under black light bring his war of letters to South Tyrol until 14 March 2027.
To mark MUDAM’s twentieth anniversary, Dodeka, 12 Works for 12 Cantons, takes its collection across the country. In unfamiliar contexts, artworks begin to shift and become present again.
Ana María Caballero is in L.A. when we speak. She regularly posts her hectic travel and performance schedule across Instagram, LinkedIn, and X: a long way from the poet nestled in a quiet studio.
Xu Zhen has spent nearly three decades making work, building institutions and, at one point, turning his own name into a brand. Now, with ink and silk in hand, he speaks about the artist as one of many possible versions.
September in South Tyrol, as Transart26 staged it. We picked three works from the festival programme: Florentina Holzinger's performers swung from bells above a stadium. In Kurtatsch, Xiu Xiu and Matthew Herbert shared a night of noise. Romeo Castellucci handed each of us a mask to keep for life.
With over 300 events across the capital, Berlin’s art ecosystem remains as dynamic as ever. COEVAL curates the definitive must-sees from this year’s edition—featuring pivotal works and retrospectives by Kira Freije, Maurizio Cattelan, Trisha Brown, Arash Nassiri, and Carrie Mae Weems. Check out the institutions, project spaces, and underground interventions of the season.
At Kunsthalle Bern the inaugural un—realized Art Prize 2026 went to Kollektiv Haus Gawaling with “The Fifth Sister”, a project built from family archives, oral memory and collective authorship. Rafal Skoczek was one of the five shortlisted artists with his work “A very brutal red carpet?” made for a courtyard in Zurich.
On September 12, Nike SNKRS filled Via Sammartini 72 with eleven artists and one sneaker, the Air Max Dolce. We stopped five of them in the room to ask about memes, archives, edible hearts and what the 2000s still teach us about looking.
Su Hui-Yu's Vroom Vroom : A Total Story treats mass media as an apparatus that has outlived its ideology yet kept its grip. Reshooting the censored variety shows of his Taiwanese childhood across a five-hour live broadcast, curated by Tofu Collective at Art Hub Copenhagen, Hui-Yu collapses the distinction between spectatorship and participation.
From August 1 to 25, San Benedetto del Tronto hosts Infinito Pratico, organized by Adriatica Contemporanea. Eleven artists interrogate repetition, locality, and Leopardi metaphysical legacy at Palazzina Azzurra, connecting past conceptual lineages to immediate regional realities.
Creative director, publisher, and self-taught researcher, Roberto Rigon has spent years turning technology's blind spots into print. He reflects on data, democracy, and the value of thinking in decades.
William Victorino builds sculpture from the wreckage of painting. Trained under Claude Rutault's radical protocols and years of Beaux-Arts drawing, the French Brazilian artist turns raw wood into frames the public can walk through, touch, and reassemble on their own terms.
(Future) Paradise Gardens. The tenth edition of Biennale Gherdëina inaugurates in the heart of the Dolomites as a diffuse event running until 13 September.
