In its 11th edition, Amsterdam-based FIBER Festival made this tension its focus of inquiry through its theme, Fragile Forces.
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.
3 days of design highlights by Conforma
3 Days of Design made one thing clear: material honesty now sits at the center of the conversation. Across pavilions and showrooms, craft, circularity and natural materials shaped the strongest work on view, proof that sustainability and quality are no longer separate considerations.
Craft and Innovation: Fashion in Helsinki 2026
Helsinki in late May: five days of shows, ateliers, studios and one awards night, where a young generation of Finnish designers proved that craftsmanship and innovation can move in the same direction. COEVAL was there to see it.
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.
Hotel Infinito: On Sonic Ecologies of Presence
On the occasion of the release of Hotel Infinito, the new album by Missing Ear, we spoke with the Milan-based experimental drummer and sound designer about the project and his collaboration with multimedia and visual artist Alessandra Leone, who will be his partner in the upcoming live show.
An interview with dancer Siko Setyanto and choreographer Tianzhuo Chen
The God-Inhabited Body and the Theatrical DJ. An interview with dancer Siko Setyanto and choreographer Tianzhuo Chen. Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師. Venice, may 2026, We Travel To Know Our Own Geography, performances curated by KUBORAUM.
To Mr L: A Tribute to David Lynch
Atomic versus Ephemeral. Eternally, its blast marks the Eternal. An Atomic bomb is forever. Per aspera, ad Episode 8. Twin Peaks: The Return.
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.
‘Find Your Friends’ by Izabel Pakzad
Before ‘Find Your Friends’ was a film, it was a night Izabel Pakzad could not forget: a dead-end street, a green Mustang, and a ten-minute car chase with no phone signal and no way out.
'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.
Daryan Knoblauch
Daryan Knoblauch is outlining a blueprint for architecture in flux, where form is not fixed, and cultural, technological, and environmental change is inevitable within the systems we currently inhabit.
URBAPHONIA Festival 2026
Urbaphonia at Pista 500: An Interview with Neuf Voix on the New Frontier of Urban Sound.
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.
MPa Sound System: Discs in Tokyo
MPa Sound System: Discs places VQ at the center of a speaker-circuit in Tokyo's CON Gallery. The room is the instrument. The audience is wired into it.
A Conversation with Alexis Perron-Corriveau from Paloceras
Paloceras latest collection, Nouvelle Fiction Sun, drifts between object and eyewear with forms shaped by light, tension and the space they leave behind.
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.