Nike ACG took its new Lava Flow Ultralight jacket to Moab, Utah, and gave a crew of 35 a 48-hour assignment: find the hottest and the coldest points the desert had to offer, and log them both.
The Museum Elsewhere
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.
Pegassi
Pegassi, the alter ego of Belgian producer Sam Huybrecht, releases 'Ascension' after two years of testing it in his sets. He talks to COEVAL about the EP built around it and the eight hours he plays at Hemkade during ADE.
Ana Maria Caballero
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
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.
Moonvine
Berlin sibling duo moonvine are quickly becoming one of the names to watch in the city's alternative dance music scene.
ALAINPAUL SS27
For Spring Summer 2027, Alain Paul follows a dancer offstage and into the night. Titled [ THE SCENE ], the collection carries the codes of the theatre into club culture and brings that freedom back to the stage. The label presented it in Paris on 1 October with its first live performance, choreographed by Eric Christison to a score by Senjan Jansen in collaboration with Shygirl.
TRANSART FESTIVAL 2026
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.
Highlights from Berlin Art Week 2026
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.
un—realized Art Prize 2026, Award Ceremony at Kunsthalle Bern
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.
Dolce XOXO powered by SNKRS
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.