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.
All in art
Total Broadcast: Su Hui-Yu at Art Hub Copenhagen
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.
Adriatica Contemporanea presents 'Infinito Pratico'
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.
Roberto Rigon aka Fixer
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
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: growing the present after twenty years of Biennale Gherdëina in Val Gardena
(Future) Paradise Gardens. The tenth edition of Biennale Gherdëina inaugurates in the heart of the Dolomites as a diffuse event running until 13 September.
'Dal sonno' by Nicola Maria Patitucci
The exhibition Dal sonno by Nicola Maria Patitucci, hosted by Cane Studio, examines the perception and implications of the unconscious, converting the dream state into an intimate and unsettling visual journey.
Cezar Mocan exhibition at SOLO CSV
At SOLO CSV in Madrid, a new exhibition space has inaugurated: Basement, with works by Cezar Mocan, artist and programmer winner of SOLO AI ‘25 Award, on the limits of data technologies.
RAGE BAIT BY EVA & FRANCO MATTES
Eva & Franco Mattes bring their hilarious yet terrifying web critiques to Venice with RAGE BAIT, showing how algorithms happily harvest our daily internet anger for pure profit.
The Silence of the Mole, new film by Jakub Jansa at 61st Venice Biennale
‘The Silence of the Mole’ reimagines a folkloric icon as a Marxist underdog. The film investigates the Kafkaesque machinery of national representation at the Biennale, where muted instruments signal a refusal to serve cultural diplomacy and statecraft.
Rabin Huissen
Artist Rabin Huissen records accounts of the human form as it is conditioned by its physical gestures, the surroundings in which these are acted, and the everyday conditions that quietly regulate lived experience.
'Strange Rules' Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon at Palazzo Diedo Venice
Mat Dryhurst makes software the way others make manifestos. Curated alongside Holly Herndon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Adriana Rispoli, his Attention Guild installation at Palazzo Diedo is the clearest version yet of what he calls protocol art: a parliament of humans and agents, and a gift economy that runs.
Joan Horrach
Joan Horrach moved from ballet to Bruce Nauman, and the distance turned out to be short. The Palma-born artist makes work where the body is both subject and instrument, and where ‘the act of waiting’ proves to be the hardest act of all.
Enzo e Barbara
The fundamental starting point for the work of Enzo e Barbara, an artistic duo formed by Padua-based artists Greta Fabrizio (born in 2000) and Riccardo Lodi (born in 1998), is a study of the relationships between human development—technological, industrial, and infrastructural—and natural ecosystems, observing how the materials, substances, and processes that traverse a place influence what grows and dwells within it.
Noémie Ninot
With Poupée de Peau, currently on view at Alo Galerie until May 30, Noémie Ninot explores how patriarchal beauty standards shape femininity through self-portraiture, repetition, and artificiality.
A Place in the Sun by Genti Korini at the Albanian Pavilion's Biennale
Genti Korini resurrects early 20th-century avant-garde research to critique the exoticization of Albania. By staging an archival Russian parody, he exposes the failure of language to capture the other.
Claudia Pagès Rabal
For the Catalonia Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, Claudia Pagès Rabal presents Paper Tears , an investigation into the subtle imprints of institutional control and their enduring legacy across history.
SEAWORLD VENICE by Florentina Holzinger
What remains after provocation? Reading SEAWORLD VENICE by Florentina Holzinger.
Gestalt by Julian-Jakob Kneer at Blue Velvet
Julian-Jakob Kneer presents attaché briefcases as screens for fantasy. These sealed objects project authority and perversion, trapping the viewer between masculine discipline and lavish, corrupted artifice.
'Crystal Crypt' by Emmanuelle Luciani for Baccarat
Crystal Crypt gave Milan Design Week its most unsettling room. Luciani's cyberpunk rituals met Wood's Mille Fleurs in a Baccarat that felt genuinely alive, and genuinely mortal.