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On view one more month: Bagus Pandega’s Anim Wraksa (2025). A tree branch is continuously nickel-plated, reflecting Indonesia’s extractive impacts. Live footage appears upside down on an LED wall, with a plant controlling the camera’s movement.
January 8, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Bagus Pandega's exhibition Daya Benda at SI
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On view through January 4, 2026.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Swiss institute gala
January 8, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Support Swiss Institute’s Benefit Auction to keep exhibitions and programs free. Eliza Douglas’s multidisciplinary practice explores image-making in a digital age, rewiring existing images and collapsing cultural hierarchies. Untitled (2023) reflects this approach.
December 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Christina Forrer’s vividly colored weavings and drawings blend whimsy with fable-inspired themes, exploring fear, humor, conflict, and chaos. Ponies in the Forest shows an elderly figure, deer, and ponies in lush woods, using playful forms to hint at deeper psychological states.
December 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Julien Creuzet’s vibrant, multilayered works evoke fractured landscapes. Using found materials like rope, fabric, and debris, he creates suspended installations that explore memory, language, and history. His poetic titles and textured assemblages invite rhythm, movement, and emotional resonance.
December 28, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Ayoung Kim’s Body^n for Performa uses live motion capture to explore doppelgängers, body doubles in dance, invisible digital and delivery labor, and intimacy between women, set in a virtual game-engine world the artist has been building for years.
December 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
December 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Ayoung Kim’s Body^n for Performa uses live motion capture to explore doppelgängers, body doubles in dance, invisible digital and delivery labor, and intimacy between women, set in a virtual game-engine world the artist has been building for years.
December 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Counterpublic Scheming
December 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Beautiful Suzanne Jackson exhibition What Is Love? at SFMOMA, highlighting her belief in the interconnectedness of human and natural worlds and her continually experimental practice across painting, collage, installation, and artist support through Gallery 32.
December 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Minjung Kim is a leading contemporary abstractionist working with traditional Korean Hanji paper. Through burning, singeing, ink, and layered paper, she creates meditative, ritual spaces. Phasing (2021) evokes musical rhythm as layered Hanji shifts over black ink.
December 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Jacob Kassay’s abstraction extends minimalism through phenomenology and perception. Co. (2024) pairs a smooth monochrome surface with a warped edge, revealing its making and creating tension between material fact and portal-like space.
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Raymond Pettibon’s No Title (Swiss Cheese.) (2025) shows figures in a dark, cave-like space, paired with the ironic handwritten phrase “SWISS CHEESE.” The misalignment of text and image reflects Pettibon’s dark humor and playful embrace of mystery and the unknown.
December 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Bagus Pandega creates modular electronic-natural systems via a DIY hacker ethos; Mona Filleul turns Swiss Institute into Sissy Institute, reclaiming effeminacy as gender dissidence; Costanza Candeloro with Licit Illicit Bookshop curates radical, rare texts on surveilled knowledge.
December 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
New season at LUMA Arles features a new Ho Tzu Nyuen commission using AI to reedit an unfinished film, alongside works by Wael Shawky, Koo Jeong A, Fujiko Nakaya, and historic cybernetic pieces by Haacke and Tsai, plus material from E.A.T. exploring art, technology, and myth.
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