Design
FOTOHAUS ARLES 2025: WITNESS, MEMORY, & WARNING
This summer, the Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz in Arles becomes the stage for FOTOHAUS ARLES 2025. This exhibition does more than showcase beautiful prints—it dares to confront the precarious state of our planet. It also challenges…
VERREGLASS MAKES ANTIQUE GLASS MODERN
Verreglass makes antique glass modern. For centuries, glass has shaped civilizations. Over time, it became both utility and ornament. Once forgotten, antique glass now glows with new meaning in a Parisian cabinet of curiosities. Verreglass…
ROOTS HOLD WHAT HISTORY LEFT BEHIND
ROOTS HOLD WHAT HISTORY LEFT BEHIND. It has always been a charged word. In the 1970s, it echoed in resistance chants and reclaimed identities. Today, in Arles, it returns with new force. Presented by Cultish…
HANNEKE BEAUMONT
Hanneke Beaumont talks to IRK Magazine Lee Sharrock in conversation with Hanneke Beaumont about her retrospective exhibition at Bowman Sculpture in London. The exhibition titled Sculpting the Universal Self celebrates thirty years of the gallery’s collaboration…
NHU XUAN HUA REINS AT HÔTEL DE LA LAUZIÈRE, ARLES
Nhu Xuan Hua commands center stage at Rencontres d’Arles 2025 with a haunting new exhibition. This exhibition remixes memory, diaspora, and visual mythology. Titled “Let the Horses Ride”, this solo show transforms the historic Hôtel…
ERNESTO NETO REIMAGINES SPACE
Ernesto Neto reimagines space. As a result, the Grand Palais becomes a sanctuary. Ernesto Neto’s woven architecture invites the body, the earth, and the beat to reunite. Back in 2005, he filled the Panthéon in…
TOUS LÉGER REINVENTS MODERNISM
Tous Léger reinvents modernism, not with reverence, but with riot. In the early 1920s, Fernand Léger coined the term “new realism” to rethink how art meets reality. Consequently, today, that legacy transforms again. Through explosive…
WHEN CLINAMEN BECOMES A SYMPHONY
When Clinamen becomes a symphony, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot hears chaos in stillness. Inside the Bourse de Commerce, porcelain becomes philosophy. When the ancient Greeks spoke of “clinamen,” they meant a slight swerve, an unpredictable deviation. It…
LOLA MAYERAS: Where Vases Have Ears
LOLA MAYERAS: Where vases have ears and gloves become sculptures, bottles turn into teapots, and everyday objects gain a surreal twist. Trained in fashion and raised by a ceramist father in the south of France,…
