EU Reviews

With rapid cuts, spatial leaps and sudden bursts of sound, two films at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, create a maze-like experience

The artist’s recent retrospective at Kunsthalle Bern wittily reflects on the circumvention of originality

Nicole Gravier’s ‘fotoromanzi’ at Ermes-Ermes, Vienna, create an escapist melodrama that stresses the dependence of capitalism on unpaid housework by women

At Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, the artist highlights the ways in which Kurdish culture is expressed at the intersection of myth and reality

From bratwurst sculptures to Prussian monuments, at Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, the artist looks at the construction of German identity 

With ‘Cantiere’, the sculptor shows himself to be one of Italy’s best kept secrets

Fin de siècle squalor and sardonic masques in ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’, the 2019 edition of the annual Austrian festival

Dragons, spirits and transformations at Julia Stoschek, Berlin

The artist’s work captures what it feels like to see your own body on the floor, in pieces, and how that might be the only way to survive having survived

Anders Dickson’s ‘Songs of Rain and Hobo Chili’ conjures the ephemerality of place

The artist’s exhibition at Galerie Sultana, Paris, explores compassion as a means of resisting capitalism

The cultural cost of accelerated growth in the German capital

Shannon Bool’s show at Kunstverein Braunschweig calls attention to the exoticising and objectifying vision of Le Corbusier

Tanaka’s retrospective at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, reveals humour and radicality in everyday things

 

With the current debate on art institutions’ reliance on private funding, the Dutch artist teaches us how to avoid becoming complicit in a company’s shady activities 

From storyboards to full-sized film sets, the artist’s show at Tim Van Laere, Antwerp, plays with cinematic techniques to make us believe in a constructed world

At Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels, Clark queers the historical record about a past cultural figure

The Berlin-based artist’s mid-career retrospective at Spain’s Reina Sofía is a free and self-determining triumph

This year’s edition of the French biennale asks how biological and economic developments inform one another

The artist’s exhibition at Delmes & Zander, Cologne, exposes society’s fear of sexually self-determined women