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Exactly 1 week later and we’re still basking in the afterglow of this night at the Russian Bath House. Big love to ✨Geof...
02/07/2025

Exactly 1 week later and we’re still basking in the afterglow of this night at the Russian Bath House.
Big love to ✨Geoffrey Mak ✨Journey Streams ✨Simon Wu for reading, and to everyone who packed the room with their energy (& sweat )

Thanks for capturing this so beautifully !
More coming up ~

✨For our Debrief section ✨we asked 3 brief questions about their latest exhibition. Salonul de Proiecte—a contemporary ...
02/05/2025

✨For our Debrief section ✨we asked 3 brief questions about their latest exhibition.

Salonul de Proiecte—a contemporary art space in Bucharest— launched a new project inviting artists to engage with the Mihai Oroveanu Image Collection, a vast photographic archive reflecting Romania’s past through the eyes of artist, curator, and museum director Mihai Oroveanu.

We’re highlighting here Adrian Ganea’s exhibition Unholy Machine, which, starting from the archive, looks at specific historical moments during the intense urbanization and industrialization of the world, and more specifically of Romania. The show questions the contradictions of modernization and the ripple effects of technological progress.
✨link in bio for the short Q&A✨
~and…
~we’re bringing back Debriefs ! ~ a short series of Q&A with curators and organizers with the mission to map fresh approaches to exhibition-making worldwide—especially around themes of community and ecology.

✨For our Debrief section ✨we asked Salonul de Proiecte 3 brief questions about their latest exhibition. Salonul de Proie...
02/04/2025

✨For our Debrief section ✨we asked Salonul de Proiecte 3 brief questions about their latest exhibition.

Salonul de Proiecte—a contemporary art space in Bucharest—has launched a new project inviting artists to engage with the Mihai Oroveanu Image Collection, a vast photographic archive reflecting Romania’s past through the eyes of artist, curator, and museum director Mihai Oroveanu.

We’re highlighting here Adrian Ganea’s exhibition Unholy Machine, which, starting from the archive, looks at specific historical moments during the intense urbanization and industrialization of the world, and more specifically of Romania. The show questions the contradictions of modernization and the ripple effects of technological progress.
✨link in bio for the short Q&A✨
• We’re bringing back Debriefs ! ~ a short series of Q&A with curators and organizers with the mission to map fresh approaches to exhibition-making worldwide—especially around themes of community and ecology.

Our Reading at the Bath House is happening tomorrow, Thursday, January 30th, and we’ve been at capacity for a while now....
01/29/2025

Our Reading at the Bath House is happening tomorrow, Thursday, January 30th, and we’ve been at capacity for a while now. (Alas! We wish we could host everyone and still preserve that special feeling we’re after—but this is just the beginning.)

Three amazing writers/artists will be guiding us through the intense, sexy, twisted, and beautiful texts they’ve written:

✨ Geoffrey Mak ~ author of the personal essay collection MEAN BOYS, published by Bloomsbury last May. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Artforum, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He’s currently at work on a novel.
✨ Journey Streams ~ writer and artist based in Brooklyn.
✨ Simon Wu ~ writer and artist, whose debut book, Dancing On My Own, was published by HarperCollins. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Bookforum, The Drift, The New Yorker, and he was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant in 2021.

🐍Happy Year of the Snake ✨Excited to shed some layers together 🐍

Come join us for a steamy night of sauna & special readings in the VIP Room of the Wall Street Bath and Spa featuring:💫 ...
01/19/2025

Come join us for a steamy night of sauna & special readings in the VIP Room of the Wall Street Bath and Spa featuring:

💫 Journey Streams
💫 Geoffrey Mak
💫 Simon Wu

Details:
January 30, 2024 | 7:00 PM
Bathhouse Open until 10:30 PM

Special Tickets go for $50 and include access to the readings, and all the facilities of the bath house / VIP room (saunas, pools, whirlpool bath, pool table, smoking room & more).

📍 Wall Street Bath and Spa (88 Fulton Street)

Capacity is EXTREMELY limited! To get a ticket you must first join our list!

Link in bio to sign up.

The Bannik
01/15/2025

The Bannik

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01/13/2025

The Bath House

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Mike Kelley: Petting Zoo, 2007Mixed media installation with video projections, soundCreated for Skulptur Projekte Münste...
12/23/2024

Mike Kelley: Petting Zoo, 2007
Mixed media installation with video projections, sound

Created for Skulptur Projekte Münster 07, Kelley’s piece was inspired by the biblical story of Lot, alongside themes of domesticated animals. The installation featured a chicken coop, a goat tower, and a round barn, with a salt-lick sculpture of Lot’s wife at its center.
Lot’s wife is a pivotal yet enigmatic figure in the story of S***m and Gomorrah. Though she is not named in the Bible, she is remembered more for her symbolic role than for her identity. According to the story, when God decided to destroy S***m and Gomorrah for their wickedness, he sent two angels to warn Lot. The angels told Lot and his family to flee and not look back but as they escaped, Lot’s wife looked back to the burning city, and turned into a pillar of salt. Lot and his two daughters fled to the mountains and took refuge in a cave. Believing they were the last people on Earth they made a plan to preserve their family line. Over two nights, the girls gave their father wine to intoxicate him, then each lay with him without his knowledge. As a result, both daughters became pregnant.

Petting Zoo is such a perfect work for Münster’s own turbulent past. But that’s a story for another time...

Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 was curated by , , and for the Westfalian Museum of Art and Cultural History, Münster, Germany.

This must be one of my favorite all time artworks: “Calamita Cosmica”.Gino De Dominicis (1947-1998) created Calamita Cos...
12/20/2024

This must be one of my favorite all time artworks: “Calamita Cosmica”.
Gino De Dominicis (1947-1998) created Calamita Cosmica in 1989, nine years before his own death. It traveled around Europe for many years before making its final home: the former church of the Santissima Trinità in Annunziata in Foligno. 
The sculpture is 24 m high by 4 m wide (what is that in Ft again?) with a beautiful pointy nasal bone and a long golden rod resting on the middle finger.

is the OG

Beautiful show by at gallery in Bucharest. 🥀
12/19/2024

Beautiful show by at gallery in Bucharest. 🥀


Fischli and Weiss “Altri fiori e altre domande,“ 2008.Produced by ; curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Bice Curiger and Vic...
12/12/2024

Fischli and Weiss “Altri fiori e altre domande,“ 2008.
Produced by ; curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Bice Curiger and Vicente Todolí, for Palazzo Litta in Milan

.collective created this magical “photo booth” installation for the opening night of Living Content Biennial: Earthcake ...
11/26/2024

.collective created this magical “photo booth” installation for the opening night of Living Content Biennial: Earthcake in the Targu Ocna Salt Mine, and here is a small selection of the photos they took

🌍 Throwback to the Salty Raffle at organized by ~ invited to respond to the Living Content Biennial: Earthcake🌍 tag y...
10/30/2024

🌍 Throwback to the Salty Raffle at organized by
~ invited to respond to the Living Content Biennial: Earthcake🌍 tag your friendos if you want

Finally got these photos back, and wow…. came through! They turned salt into a whole vibe with salt-inspired snacks and a salty raffle at Pamela Bar for friends and fam. 🙏best energy all around

Major love to everyone who showed up and made the event feel so real. Couldn’t have asked for better collabs or more wonderful people to make it happen. 💫💛

🌍 Throwback to the Salty Raffle at organized by ~ invited to respond to the Living Content Biennial: Earthcake🌍 tag u...
10/30/2024

🌍 Throwback to the Salty Raffle at organized by
~ invited to respond to the Living Content Biennial: Earthcake🌍 tag ur friends too

Finally got these photos back, and wow…. came through! They turned salt into a whole vibe with salt-inspired snacks and a salty raffle at Pamela Bar for friends and fam. 🙏best energy all around

Major love to everyone who showed up and made the event feel so real. Couldn’t have asked for better collabs or more wonderful people to make it happen. 💫💛

🌍 Throwback to Living Content Biennial: Earthcake🌍Finally got these photos back, and wow…. came through! They turned sa...
10/30/2024

🌍 Throwback to Living Content Biennial: Earthcake🌍

Finally got these photos back, and wow…. came through! They turned salt into a whole vibe with salt-inspired snacks and a salty raffle at Pamela Bar for friends and fam. 🙏best energy all around.🌪️

Major love to everyone who showed up and made the event feel so real. Couldn’t have asked for better collabs or more wonderful people to make it happen. 💫💛

(a performance filmed by ) in “Earthcake” (from 1992 ) ❤️ the video that inspired the first edition of the Living Con...
10/26/2024

(a performance filmed by ) in “Earthcake” (from 1992 ) ❤️ the video that inspired the first edition of the Living Content Biennial 🌞🙏🌞

Kiddos from our workshops taking spontaneous breaks to enjoy the salt mine’s walls! Yum!
10/24/2024

Kiddos from our workshops taking spontaneous breaks to enjoy the salt mine’s walls! Yum!

🌿 This week marks the final stretch of the Living Content Biennial: EARTHCAKE with the last two creative workshops for k...
10/23/2024

🌿 This week marks the final stretch of the Living Content Biennial: EARTHCAKE with the last two creative workshops for kids happening on Thursday (tomorrow) and Friday! 🌟
These free weekly workshops are part of the Biennial’s educational initiative, designed to engage local schoolchildren with the exhibition and its artworks. The incredibly inventive Irina Bălan has created an interactive tour of the exhibition, filled with playful games that encourage kids to unleash their creativity, develop critical thinking, and work together as a team. We are so grateful for her amazing talent!
The journey begins with Adrian Ganea’s artwork and gently moves towards Lito Kattou’s pieces, where the kids use flashlights to cast shadows, bringing the stories of the artworks to life.
Next, Irina introduces a fun game where teams of kids interpret Nona Inescu’s “Reliquaries” by becoming living sculptures. Each sculpture is then given a title, and the team imagines the magical powers it possesses.
Then, with flashlights in hand, the kids gather to read and “eat” Jenna Sutela’s ENERGY poem, sparking a lively discussion about what energy is, how it circulates, and why they’re able to eat the paper!
After watching Geta Brătescu’s video work “EARTHCAKE,” the final game begins. Inspired by Brătescu’s piece, the kids use clay, earth, water, and flower seeds to create little “Bombs” based on the Guerrilla Gardening concept. These “bombs” protect the seeds, helping them sprout anywhere the kids choose to plant them.
One of the highlights was the spontaneous breaks where everyone touched and even licked the salty walls—like a magical ritual or a performance in itself. ✨
Living Content Biennial: EARTHCAKE is co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN). This project does not necessarily represent the position of the AFCN. The AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or the ways in which the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.
Host Partner: Târgu Ocna Salt Mine

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❤️‍🔥Özgür Kar‘s work at Art Basel Statements, 2022 ❤️‍🔥🤫 🌱Repost from @edouardmontassut #özgürkar #artbasel #artbasel2022 @ozgur4ever @artbasel

Repost from @bortolamigallery • 🐚 Aki Sasamoto Offers a Change of Pace at the Venice Biennale The New York-based artist's interest in 🐌 began during a residency at @AtelierCalder in the Indre-et-Loire Valley in France during 2021, which she attended with her husband and young son. While in 🇫🇷 , her son would go out into the garden and collect snail shells – an obsession that continued well after the residency ended. Sasamoto has humorously assigned the shells (her “performers”) their own distinct personalities. Some snails have craft store feathers mounted on top – a gesture which causes them to spin in the opposite direction as the others. See Aki's installation, located just outside the Arsenale! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ — #AkiSasamoto #VeniceBiennale #Bortolami — Video of Aki Sasamoto, Sink or Float, 2022. Mixed-media installation. Dimensions variable. Video courtesy the artist and Bortolami.

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