Reviews
Long-form reviews of contemporary art exhibitions across Europe.
The Fair That Isn't a Satellite
Art Dubai 2024 at Madinat Jumeirah, reviewed. Strong Modern section, growing Asian collector base, and an argument about whether Dubai is now a centre rather than a satellite.
By Katya Pranitskaya · Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
Scarcity, Made Visible
Tosin Oshinowo's second Sharjah Architecture Triennial, The Beauty of Impermanence, reviewed. Salt churches, pastoralist geology, and a serious argument about whose buildings get called architecture.
By Katya Pranitskaya · various, Sharjah, Sharjah
The Slow Unbuilding
DAAR, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, won the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale's Golden Lion for the best participant. A review of their room and the fifteen-year practice behind it.
By Katya Pranitskaya · Arsenale, Venice
Terra
On Terra, the Brazilian Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, winner of the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. A pavilion that put the ground back in the room.
By Emilio Carrara · Brazilian Pavilion, Giardini, Venice
The Laboratory Is Always Somewhere Else
Lesley Lokko's Laboratory of the Future at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, reviewed. Brazil's Golden Lion, DAAR's decolonising practice, and a show whose real project was elsewhere.
By Katya Pranitskaya · 18th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
Euroluce, Reformatted
Salone del Mobile 2023 gave Euroluce a plan that borrowed from Italian towns: piazzas, alleys, shop windows. For the first time in thirty years the lighting sector read like a place.
By Emilio Carrara · Fiera Milano Rho, Milan