Publications

2022

  • “Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Close-Knit Collaborations”, Venice Biennale special, Metropolis M, April 2022, 27-31
  • “Editorial”, Venice, issue 3 of magazine published alongside Zineb Sedira’s French pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
  • “Performing Existential Cuisine”, in Lei Saito: Existential Cuisine (Paris: Is-Land, 2022)
  • “Letter from Rome: Remoria”, Art Monthly, n. 455, April 2022, 40-42
  • “Tacita Dean” at Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 22 February 2022
  • “Nothing Is Lost. Art and Matter in Transformation” at GAMEC, Bergamo, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 8 February 2022
  • “Carlos Garaicoa” at Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Artforum, January 2022
  • “Letter from Kosovo: Out in the Open”, Art Monthly, n. 452, Dec-Jan 2021-22, 41-42

2021

  • “Primrose: Early Russian Color Photography, 1860s-1970s” at MAMM, Moscow, Camera Austria, n. 156, November 2021
  • “Letter from Graz: Mittleeuropean Memories”, Art Monthly, n. 451, 40-41
  • “Time and Again”, Diary, artforum.com, 11 November 2021
  • “Chiara Fumai” at Centro Pecci, Prato, Artforum, October 2021
  • “Letter from Venice”, Art Monthly, n. 449, September 2021
  • “Soshiro Matsubara” at MACRO, Rome, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 3 June 2021
  • “Wolfgang Stoerchle” at MACRO, Rome, flashart.com, 26 May 2021
  • “Karolina Bielawska, Matthew Piers: Fields” at Galeria Wschód, flashart.com, 23 April, 2021
  • “Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies)” at the Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Art Monthly, n. 444, March 2021

2020

  • “Leviathan: the Peljassaare Chapter” at KAI Art Centre, Tallinn, flashart.com, 9 Nov 2020
  • “Corita Kent: Joyful Revolutionary” at Taxipalais, Innsbruck, flashart.com, 23 Sept 2020
  • “Biennale Gherdëina 7” at Val Gardena, Dolomites, flashart.com, 9 Sept 2020
  • “Omzwervingen aan Vreemde Kunsten”, Metropolis M, n. 5, June 2020, 64-69
  • “Letter from Chicago: Sweet Water”, Art Monthly, n. 434, March 2020, 42-43
  • “Malta round-up”, online report, Flash Art International, February 2020
  • “5th Ural Biennial of Contemporary Art: Immortality”, Art Monthly, n. 433, February 2020, 34-35
  • “Art Basel Miami 2019”, online report, Flash Art International, January 2020

2019

  • “Primitivi di una Nuova Era. Aldo Tambellini”, cover feature, Flash Art Italia, n. 347, December-February 2019-2020
  • “Yoan Capote. Sujeto Omitido”, Flash Art Italia, December 2019
  • “Letter from Okayama and Kobe: Lasting Legacies”, Art Monthly, n. 431, November 2019, 43-44
  • “Berlin Art Week”, online report, Flash Art International, October 2019
  • “An interview with Elisabeth Tonnard”, Friends with Books art book fair blogspot, September 2019
  • “Ettore Spalletti”, review, Flash Art International, n. 326, June-August 2019
  • “Geta Brătescu”, “Zon Ito”, in Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art (Phaidon, 2019)
  • “Artmonte-carlo 2019”, online report, Flash Art International, May 2019
  • “A Conversation with Ralph Rugoff”, Metropolis M, n. 2, April 2019, 4-7
  • “Psychomagie is weten dat er geen aarde is”, interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky, Metropolis M, n. 2, April 2019, 48-53
  • “Letter from Zacatecas”, Art Monthly, n. 423, February 2019, 42-43
  • “Low Form : Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”, MAXXI, Rome, Art Monthly, n. 422, December-January 2018-2019
  • “Tania Bruguera: Where Art Can Work”, Flash Art International, vol. 52, n. 323, 2019, 44-49

2018

  • Sesama, a multi-authored bilingual book (English-Bahasa Indonesia) edited by Agnieszka Gratza (PamojaPress, 2018)
  • “Sounding Out Idols”, Aftercast – Florian Roithmayr (Tenderbooks, 2018), 162-68
  • “Música Aquática/Water Music”, essay in bilingual publication (Portuguese-English) Resiliência: Residência artística/Resilience: Artist in Residence, ed. Cinthia Mendoça (Silo, 2018), 128-143
  • “Donna Huanca” at the Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 11 December 2018
  • “Franz Erhard Walther at Museo Jumex and Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City”, online review, Mousse, 2018
  • “Companion Planting”, Roundtable discussion at Salmon Creek Farm, CCQ, summer 2018, 50-51
  • “Lens for Looking at Change: Katerina Gregos”, interview, Mousse, summer 2018
  • “Buurtwerk op niveau”, on Casa Wabi Foundation in Mexico, Metropolis M, n. 4, August 2018, 27-29
  • “Garden of Memory”, Etel Adnan, Simone Fattal and Bob Wilson at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 9 July 2018
  • “Collectors as Philanthropists”, catalogue essay for the Kolekcjonerzy Filantropami charity auction (RazemPamoja, 2018)
  • “Vilda rosor: Aleksandra Kollontai och Rosa Luxemburg” (“Wild Roses: Alexandra Kollontai and Rosa Luxemburg”), essay in a special issue of Paletten magazine, n. 315, March 2018, 89-93
  • “Sean Scully” at Cuadra San Cristóbal, Mexico City, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 5 March 2018
  • “Francis Alÿs: Knots’n Dust” at the Beirut Art Centre, Flash Art International, vol. 51, n. 309, 2018, 102

2017

  • Letters from Second Home, co-authored with Dora García (MOREpublishers, 2017)
  • Simon Martin File Note accompanying the exhibition “UR Feeling” at Camden Arts Centre, London (2017)
  • “Nicola Tyson’s grotesque bodies and faces”, Nicola Tyson: Beyond the Trace Exhibition Guide (Drawing Room, 2017)
  • “We Come from the Sea”, online essay, TBA21 Journals, 2017
  • “Kasper Akhøj” at Villa Sauber, Monaco, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 14 November 2017
  • “Performa17: Afroglossia and Circulations”, online interview with Charles Aubin and Adrienne Edwards, Mousse, November 2017
  • “For all ages: The carousels of Céline Condorelli”, interview, Metropolis M, n. 5, November 2017
  • Book of Volcanic Swims, a handwritten Japanese folded book originally exhibited at Mimosa House, London as part of the “Growing Gills” exhibition (Sept-Oct 2017)
  • “Daughters of Persephone”, tamawuj.org, a Sharjah Biennale publication, October 2017
  • “Taste of Things to Come?”, online review of LiAF (Lofoten International Art Festival), KUNSTforum, 29 September 2017
  • “Roberto Cuoghi ‘Perla Pollina, 1996-2016’ at MADRE, Naples”, Review, Mousse, summer 2017
  • “Hercule Florence” at Villa Paloma, Monaco, Flash Art International, vol. 51, n. 319, 2018, 100
  • “Oceans: The Forgotten Habitat”, Conference Room, LEAP, issue 44, April 2017, 112-117
  • “Miroslaw Balka” at HangarBicocca, Milan, Mousse, issue 57, 2017

2016

  • “The Green Ray”, web essay, The White Review, 23 November 2016
  • “Mind Over Material: The ambitious collectors acquiring video and other media”, Frieze Week, n. 3, 2016, 37-39
  • “Je ziet het, of je ziet het niet”, feature on Raphael Hefti, Metropolis M, n. 5, October 2016
  • “Rehearsals for an Island”,  PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, vol. 38, n. 3, September 2016, 61-66
  • “Beach and Teach”, on the Experimental Educational Protocol in Nisyros, Greece, Diary, artforum.com, 1 August 2016
  • “Finnish Landscape”, Critics’ Picks, artforum.com, 11 August 2016
  • “Third Time’s a Charm”, on the 3rd Aichi Triennale, Diary, artforum.com, 19 August 2016
  • “Netwerkschool, Het succes van de Summer Academy”, on Salzburg Summer Academy, Metropolis M, n. 2, August 2016, 35-37
  • “Double Take: How two radically different galleries are putting Kiev on the contemporary art map”, on the Pinchuk Art Centre and Izolyatsia, The Calvert Journal, 28 July 2016
  • “Is dit wat we willen?”, interview with Marguerite Humeau, Metropolis M, n. 3, June 2016, 62-68
  • “Afterlife Woodland”, commissioned essay on French & Mottershead website, frenchmottershead.com, 2016
  • “Test of time: Marina Abramović on the transformational power of performance art”, interview, The Calvert Journal, 4 May 2016
  • “Jackie Waldren”, Expat Lives, Financial Times, 16-17 April 2016
  • “The Artist as Philanthropist” (“De kunstenaar als filantroop”), Metropolis M, n. 2, April 2016, 35-37
  • “Alexander Calder”, Flash Art International, vol. 49, n. 306, 2016, 87
  • “Alice Theobald and Atomik Architecture”, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 9 March 2016
  • “Lis Rhodes and Aura Satz: Seeing Is Never Believing”, Mousse, issue 52, February-March 2016
  • “Composites”, feature on Janice Kerbel, Metropolis M, n. 2, April 2019, 54-59
  • “Approaching the Brink: Manifesta 10 and the Standoff over Crimea”, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, The MIT Press, vol. 38, n. 1, January 2016, 71-78
  • “Qwaypurlake” at Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 14 January 2016
  • “Aura Satz”, 500 Words, artforum.com, 18 January 2016
  • “Live Cinema: Guy Sherwin And Lynn Loo At The David Roberts Art Foundation”, Craft/Work, The Quietus, 16 January 2016

2015

  • “Transformation Marathon”, Conference Room, LEAP (Chinese-English), issue 36, December 2015, 44-47
  • “Chantal Akerman: NOW” at Ambika P3, London, Mousse, December 2015
  • “Sculpture without objects”, feature on Katrina Palmer, Metropolis M, n. 6, December 2015, 40-43
  • “Karen Brunwasser”, Expat Lives, Financial Times, 4 December 2015
  • “The Curator Cure”, on Artissima in Turin, Diary, artforum.com, 16 November 2015
  • “ARTBO 2015”, flashartonline.com, November 2015
  • “Moussa Ag Assarid”, Expat Lives, Financial Times, 9 October 2015
  • “Jasmina Cibic”, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 2 October 2015
  • “Paulina Olowska Goes Live”, online interview, Tate Etc., 21 September 2015
  • “Shall we dance?”, on Boris Charmatz’ If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse, Tate Etc., n. 35, autumn 2015
  • “Over you / you”, review of the 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Mousse, issue 50, 2015
  • “William Kentridge”, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 6 July 2015
  • “Nicolas Mangan: Ancient Lights at Chisenhale”, Agenda, Mousse, 2015
  • “Juan Muñoz”, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 29 June 2015
  • “Kathrin Messner”, Expat Lives, Financial Times, 26 June 2015
  • “Ian Cheng”, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 22 June 2015
  • “Ekki Múkk”, Bytes, Sight & Sound blog, 4 June 2015
  • “Hito Steyerl”, interview, Agenda, Mousse, 2015
  • “The Age of Rare Earth”, online review, KUNSTforum, 13 April 2015
  • “Nil Yalter”, online review, Art Agenda, 26 March 2015
  • “Track Meet”, on New Territories and Pierre Huyghe’s What Could Happen at St Moritz, Switzerland, Diary, artforum.com, 24 March 2015
  • “James Benning”, Critics’ Picks, artforum.com, 16 March 2015
  • “Private Eyes”, on the 4th artgenève fair, Diary, artforum.com, 10 March 2015
  • “Richard Tuttle”, review, Metropolis M, n. 1, February 2015
  • “Een bloemlezing van Geo-Poëtica”, interview with The Otholith Group, Metropolis M, n. 1, February 2015, 76-80
  • “Sealed with a Kiss: Tino Sehgal fills Leeds city centre with cavorting couples”, The Guardian, 3 February 2015
  • “Drama School”, on the congress for Artist Organisations International, Diary, artforum.com, 19 January 2015
  • “Lara Favaretto”, “Simone Forti”, “Maria Nordman”, “Ceal Floyer”, “Simon Martin”, “Tino Sehgal”, “Urs Fischer”, “Anthony McCall” and “Roman Signer”, nine essays commissioned to accompany “The Event Sculpture” exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute (November 2014-March 2015)

2014

  •  “Imagine Two Rivers”, The Imagines (Sternberg Press, 2014), 103-12
  • “Light Time Tales”, on Joan Jonas at HangarBicocca, Milan, Metropolis M, n. 6, December 2014, 84-85
  • “Money Talks”, on the 3rd Amsterdam Art Weekend, Diary, artforum.com, 17 December 2014
  • “Agnieszka Gratza on the best exhibitions of 2014”, Slant, artforum.com, 15 December 2014
  • “Andro Wekua”, review, Agenda, Mousse, 2014
  • “The Exhibition of a Film”, online interview with Mathieu Copeland, The Exhibitionist, 2014
  • “A Living Critique”, on Anne Hjort Guttu’s solo exhibition at Le Quartier, Quimper, 4 November 2014
  • “Nick Mauss stages 1NVERS1ONS at Frieze London”, Financial Times, 10 October 2014
  • “Portraits d’intérieurs” at Villa Sauber, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 4 September 2014
  • “Forgive and Forget”, on the 4th Volcano Extravaganza on Stromboli, Diary, artforum.com, 25 August 2014
  • “Franz West ‘Where is my Eight?’ at The Hepworth Wakefield”, Agenda, Mousse, 2014
  • “Here Comes the Sun”, on Solaris Chronicles at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, Diary, artforum.com, 13 July 2014
  • “14th Venice Architecture Biennale”, frieze d/e blog, 11 July 2014
  • “Berlin Documentary Forum 3”, Reviews, frieze.com, 26 June 2014
  • “Een tentoonstelling is geen essay”, interview with Brian Dillon, Metropolis M, n. 3, June 2014, 26-31
  • “Ian Kiaer ‘Tooth House’ at the Henry Moore Institute”, Agenda, Mousse, 2014
  • “Dhaka Art Summit”, Reviews, frieze, issue 164, May 2014
  • “Real Time”, Profile, frieze, issue 163, May 2014
  • “L’Heure des sorcières” at Le Quartier, Quimper, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 3 May 2014
  • “The collector couple behind Marseille’s La Fabrique”, Financial Times, 13 June 2014
  • “Black Ties”, on Tristan Bera and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s Dîner noire in Istanbul, Performance, artforum.com, 19 April 2014
  • “Exit Ghosts”, on Agnieszka Kurant, Features, frieze, n. 162, April 2014
  • “Subodh Gupta”, Reviews, frieze, n. 162, April 2014
  • “Rituals of Rented Island”, Reviews, frieze, n. 161, March 2014
  • “Richard Hawkins”, Hijikata Twist at Tate Liverpool, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 25 March 2014
  • “You’ve Got Mail”, on Eric Baudelaire’s The Secession Sessions at Bergen Kunsthall, Performance, artforum.com, 20 March 2014
  • “Zarina’s ‘Folding House’”, online review, Art Agenda, 3 March 2014
  • “Berlinale Forum 2013: Sight for jaundiced eyes”, web exclusive, Sight & Sound, 12 February 2014
  • “Blowing their own alphorn: Swiss musical documentaries”, New Horizons film festival in Wroclaw, web exclusive, Sight & Sound, 14 February 2014
  • “Nick Relph”, Reviews, frieze, n. 160, January-February 2014
  • “Strike: Opera #3” by Ulf Aminde, frieze.com, 27 January 2014
  • “Schizophonia”, at the Synagogue de Delme, France, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 25 January 2014

2013

  • “Every Which Way”, at Danspace, New York, Performance, artforum.com, 6 December 2013
  • “Atelier Van Lieshout” at Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 31 October 2013
  • “Frieze of faculty? One art critic’s move from academia to journalism”, The Guardian, 17 October 2013
  • “Oto Didacts”, on Unsound London festival, Performance, artforum.com, 14 October 2013
  • “Locarno Film Festival 2013”, Profiles, frieze d/e blog, 11 October 2013
  • “Call of the Mall”, Reviews, frieze, n. 158, October 2013
  • “Ursula Mayer”, Reviews, frieze d/e, n. 11, September-October 2013
  • “Monday Begins on Saturday: 1st Bergen Assembly”, Flash Art International, vol. 46, n. 293, 2013, 41
  • “Gadar Eide Einarsson” at Bergen Kunsthall, Flash Art International, vol. 46, n. 291, 2013, 124
  • “BMW Tate Live: Charles Atlas”, Flash Art International, vol. 46, n. 290, 2013, 89
  • “Open House”, Features, frieze, n. 157, September 2013
  • “Jac Leirner: Hardware Silk”, ArtReview, September 2013
  • “Expanding Performance”, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, vol. 35, n. 3, September 2013, 41-48
  • “Up in the Air”, on the 3rd Sokolovsko Festival of Ephemeral Art, Performance, artforum.com, 19 August 2013
  • “The Making of Helen Marten”, Metropolis M, n. 4, August 2013, 46-51
  • “Moyra Davey”, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 26 July 2013
  • “Oscar Murillo”, Reviews, frieze, n. 156, June-August 2013
  • “Festivals: Oberhausen”, Film Comment blog, 29 May 2013
  • “Quizoola!”, frieze.com, May 2013
  • “Project Runway”, at Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw, Performance, artforum.com, 30 April 2013
  • “Alice Channer, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Linder”, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 16 April 2013
  • “Belfort Film Festival”, Wide Angle, Sight & Sound, vol. 23, n. 23, April 2013
  • “Artur Żmijewski”, Reviews, frieze, n. 154, April 2013
  • “Minimaal en menselijk”, feature on Magali Reus, Metropolis M, n. 2, April 2013, 36-39
  • “Film in Space” at Camden Arts Centre, London, frieze, n. 153, March 2013
  • “Postcard from the Berlinale”, frieze.com, February 2013
  • “Conversation Pieces”, Profiles, frieze, n. 152, January-February 2013
  • “Adam Pendleton”, Reviews, frieze, n. 152, January-February 2013
  • “Maurizio Cattelan”, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 8 January 2013
  • “Postcard from the Belfort Film Festival”, frieze.com, January 2013
  • “Turner Prize 2012”, Flash Art International, vol. 46, n. 288, 2013, 36

2012

  • “What’s in a name? The Aesthetics of ‘edible’ public spaces”, Nils Norman: Edible Park (Valiz, 2012), 41-48
  • “Paint it Black”, on Aldo Tambellini, Sight & Sound, vol. 22, n. 11, November 2012
  • “Expanded Performance” at Stroom den Haag, Critics’ Picks, artforum.com, 7 November 2012
  • “Liam Gillick”, Flash Art International, vol. 45, n. 285, 2012, 97
  • “Mat Collishaw”, Flash Art International, vol. 45, n. 283, 2012, 91
  • “In Focus: Liz Magic Laser”, Features, frieze, n. 149, September 2012
  • “Vlatka Horvat”, Brand New, Flash Art International, n. 285, July-August-September 2012
  • “Ongepast, Verontrustend, Onheilspellend”, interview with Leigh Ledare, Metropolis M, n. 4, August 2012, 42-47
  • “New York Salons”, Features, ArtReview, issue 60, summer 2012 (cover feature), 90-97
  • “Jesús Soto”, Reviews, frieze, n. 147, May 2012
  • “Ellen Birkenblit”, Reviews, frieze, n. 146, April 2012
  • “Chronicles of a Disappearance” at Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain, Montreal, 2 April 2012
  • “Sanja Iveković”, Print, Artforum, March 2012
  • “Nicola Tyson”, Reviews, frieze, n. 144, January-February 2012

2011

  •  “33 Fragments of Russian Performance” at Performa11, Critics’ Picks, artforum.com, 15 November 2011
  • “Matthew Barney: Djed”, Spotlight, Flash Art International, vol. 44, n. 281, 2011, 92
  • “The House without the Door” at David Zwirner Gallery, NY, Flash Art International, vol. 44, n. 280, 107
  • “G.T. Pellizzi”, Critics’ Picks, artforum.com, 23 September 2011
  • “London Waterworks”, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, vol. 33, n. 3, September 2011, 89-93
  • “Ostalgia” at the New Museum, New York, Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, 15 November 2011
  • “Cerith Wyn Evans”, Reviews, frieze, n. 139, May 2011
  • “The moon in May”, Cannes 2011, Sight & Sound blog, 20 May 2011
  • “Nils Norman”, Reviews, frieze, n. 138, April 2011

2010

  • “Shadows of Progress: NS media partnership with the BFI”, interview with Patrick Russell, Culture, New Statesman blog, 5 November 2010
  • “Directors’ cuts: Afternoon tea with Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman and Jeanne Labrune”, Culture, New Statesman blog, 31 October 2010
  • “Trisha Brown: between physiotherapy and Pilates”, Culture, New Statesman blog, 22 October 2010
  • “How to succeed at Frieze”, Culture, New Statesman blog, 14 October 2010
  • “Frieze Art Fair 2010: Highlights”, Culture, New Statesman blog, 12 October 2010
  • “Staged” at The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Review, The Guardian, 23 August 2010
  • “Diary of a Seducer: Søren Kierkegaard”, Classics’ Corner, Observer, July 2010
  • “Satyricon by Petronius”, Classics’ Corner, Observer, 20 June 2010
  • “Spiritual Nourishment: Food and Ritual in Performance Art”,  PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, vol. 32, n. 1, January 2010, 67-75

2008

  • “Paradoxe et antiparadoxe dans la littérature médicale lyonnaise: Barthélemy Aneau critique de Pierre Tolet”, in Vulgariser la médecine: Ecrivains, styles et publics en France et en Italie (XVIe et XVIIe siècles), ed. by Michel Jeanneret and Andrea Carlino (Droz, 2008)

2007

  • “Au rebours des autres: The ‘Know Thyself’ Motif in Montaigne’s Essais (III, 9)”, in Revelations of Character: Ethos, Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy in Montaigne, ed. by Corinne Noirot with Valérie M. Dionne (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), 121-132
  • “Doctrine moult paradoxe et nouvelle: Linguistic and Medical Innovation in Rabelais’s Tiers Livre”, French Studies (October 2007), 423-33

2005

  • “Renaissance Monetary Paradoxes: The Malestroit-Bodin Controversy”, article commissioned for a special issue on early modern France of the Renaissance Journal, vol. 2, n. 4, June 2005, 49-60

2004

  • The Defence of Contraries: Paradox in the Late Renaissance Disciplines (University of Oxford dissertation, 2004)
  • “Third Book”, “Agrippa”, “Tiraqueau”, “Nazdecabre”, and “Colors”: entries in The Rabelais Encyclopedia, ed. Elizabeth Chesney-Zegura (Greenwood Press, 2004)

2003

  • “Paradoxical diseases in the late Renaissance: the case of syphilis and plague”, refereed book chapter in Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History, ed. George Rousseau (Palgrave, 2003), 269-84