This is a review of two books – Joanna Rajkowska’s Where the Beast Is Buried (Zero Books, 2013) and Tom Finkelpearl’s What … More
Category: Contemporary Art
Symposium on Zoos in Central Europe in London in mid September organised by Eszter Steierhoffer
The Dark Side of the Modern Home
This is an extract of an essay published in Sparke, Massey, Keeble and Martin, eds., Designing the Modern Interior (Berg, 2009) … More
Dan Perjovschi: The Power of the Margins
The international art world ‘discovered’ Dan Perjovschi in 1999 when his drawings were displayed in the Romanian Pavilion at the … More
‘Laughing at My Head’ – The ‘Immature’ Art of Neue Bieremiennost
I was commissioned to write a piece about the early years of artist Mirosław Bałka and his colleagues when they … More
Paradise Lost?
This piece was published in Piktogram in 2005. ♦ The Art of Home In 1956 a member of the British … More
Sacrifice, Madness, Ruins and Other Polish Dreams
This essay was written for the catalogue accompanying The Power of Fantasy. Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland at BOZAR … More
Speaking about exhibitions
Last night I went to a talk – of sorts – at the RCA called ‘Spoken Exhibition’ which represents ‘historic’ … More
Electric Birdsong
The University of Brighton Gallery is currently hosting a retrospective exhibition of the work of German sound artist Peter Vogel. … More
Unmonumental monuments
This text appeared in the catalogue for the Steirischer Herbst festival, Graz, 2010
