Features Overview

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.

The Odyssey: our takedown. By Enea Boccazzi.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Barragán staged SS30 inside Berlin's Mexican Embassy, a brutalist monument by Teodoro González de León, where identity became a matter of paperwork, uniforms, and light bent through corridors in tribute to Luis Barragán.

In Federico Hurth's photography, precision and risk are inseparable. His latest project, Sourland, focuses on the aftermath of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires in 84 analog photographs.

Nordic midsummer has always been a negotiation with light: how long can you hold it, how much can the body take before sleep wins. At Ruka, Kuusamo, Solstice Festival removes the question entirely. The sun does not set. The fell rises above the treeline. The reindeer cross when they want. You adjust.

To claim that intuition is methodology is to strip it of romance and position it where it truly belongs: as rigorous epistemic practice. Vincent Laine treats the inner voice not as a muse but as disciplined intelligence.

(Future) Paradise Gardens. The tenth edition of Biennale Gherdëina inaugurates in the heart of the Dolomites as a diffuse event running until 13 September.