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.
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.