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.
Helsinki Design Week 2026: What Finland Keeps
Helsinki Design Week 2026, seen from the inside: a flying saucer reborn from its original moulds, carbon that looks like stone, a sculptor's villa by the sea, and a public sauna that doubles as a school.
OPERA FESTIVAL 2026
Surfaces. Layers. Overlaps. The sixth edition of Opera Festival ran from 20 to 23 August in Milo, Sicily: a new stage carved out of the forest, a wider Ballroom, and six thousand people listening under an active volcano.
COEVAL at Flow Festival 2026
Twenty-one editions in, Helsinki in August belongs to Flow. A former power plant, ten stages, forty-five kitchens. Names we loved: Florence + The Machine, Nick Cave, Lykke Li, Oklou, Habibi Funk, DJ Gigola, Ana Frango Elétrico.
Post-Traumatic Nolan Disorder
The Odyssey: our takedown. By Enea Boccazzi.
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.
GENER8ION: VISIONS OF 2034
At 180 The Strand, GENER8ION’s VISIONS OF 2034 is all about cinema, music and visual art, imagining a future that feels disturbingly close to the present.
LOST (Labyrinth Original Sound Track) is FMR’s Memory Artifact
Built on a promise to writer J.L. Borges, the labyrinth carries FMR's ongoing legacy. Bianca Peruzzi and Luca Giudici built LOST, an afterlife vision based on perceptual possibility.
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.
A Week in Sibiu: Feeric Fashion Week 2026
Feeric Fashion Week takes Sibiu apart and gives it to designers. A museum, three parking levels, two factories, a village, and a medieval square become runways for schools and labels arriving from more than fifteen countries.
Shadow of Fire – The Other Side of Peace
Tsukamoto's gauntness against Nolan's IMAX colossal. In response to The Odyssey: Shadow of Fire – a true film on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among war veterans.
Hoka x Beams Bondi 7 collaboration
HOKA and Beams have known each other for years. For the retailer's fiftieth anniversarythey took the Bondi 7 somewhere quieter. Thomas Cykana and Travis Wiseman talk through the shoe in Paris.
Jamie XX and Solomun at Pacha Ibiza
Pacha's walls still remember the night Jamie xx and Solomun traded rhythms until sunrise, one playful and open, the other deep and relentless, together rewriting what a b2b can sound like.
TOKYO BURNSIDE Brings REBEL RAMEN to Paris, with a Yatai by Willo Perron
Nearly three years in the making, REBEL RAMEN landed in Paris with a cart drawn by Willo Perron, a sound system built by Matéo Garcia, and two bowls that argue for restraint and excess in equal measure.
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.
Refin Studio opens in Paris
Sixty years of ceramic culture arrive in Paris. Refin Studio, the brand's first French space, gives architects and designers a place to study surfaces, compare ideas and build considered, lasting projects.
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.
JOHN LAWRENCE SULLIVAN By ARASHI YANAGAWA SS27
For SS27, Arashi Yanagawa built a collection around Bettina Rheims's Modern Lovers, letting masculinity and femininity sit unresolved. Shibari-inspired lacing meets sheer fabric and reptile-look materials, restraint and softness worn on the same body.
Berlin Fashion Week Spring Summer 2027
Berlin Fashion Week SS27 took place across four days and iconic venues citywide, uniting Orange Culture, Buzigahill, Andrej Gronau, Kasia Kucharska, Selva Huygens, sample030 and John Lawrence Sullivan in a season defined by identity and transformation.
Fredrik Paulsen
Fredrik Paulsen learned to read the world through skateboarding long before he learned to design for it. This month he brings that back to Helsinki, with a chair made for Vauhtikisat, built to be ridden, not admired.