artwork by Van O (Ivan Isaev) Much of the contemporary art world is based on illusory aspects of power. There are of course the supposed gatekeepers, but who are these people and do they really determine the threshold of access? They are the museum / gallery director, the curator, the art critic (and critical art publications), the academic scholar, and the financier. These various roles and individuals have been granted the collective power of determining what is art. But wh

Written by Joas Nebe. Luc Delahaye (born 1962) worked as a war photographer in the 1990s. War photographers are at the heart of the action. They require highly automated and lightweight equipment that can be quickly moved from one location to another. The images captured with these small (digital) cameras have a certain resolution, dictated by the medium, film or later, the chip in the camera, which is sufficient to be published in newspapers or magazines. Often, the lack of

Enne Tesse is a fiber, installation, text artist, and costume designer who has exhibited extensively in the United States especially in New York state as well as internationally in Japan. Her most notable exhibitions include MoMA PS1 in New York, Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, and the Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto. Recent exhibitions include Super Secret Projects in Beacon, New York, G-Town Arts in Georgetown, Connecticut, and Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Enne

Jasmine Christie (also known as ANTICHRISTIE) is an analogue digital artist who has exhibited across the United Kingdom and internationally in Athens, São Paulo, and Barcelona. Recent exhibitions include Arrival Gallery in Athens, Artlymix in São Paulo, Galería Agaphe in Barcelona, IMPREINT Space in London, Fabric Studios in Liverpool and The Holy Art Gallery in Paros Island, Greece. Utilizing an aesthetic reminiscent of Vaporwave, New Wave, and Synthwave elements along with

In the age of artificial intelligence, there is no greater currency than the ability to draw people’s attention. With the endless amount of AI slop in the form of automated texts and images filling our personal and professional spaces, how does the artist thrive amidst a sea of crap? Well first of all, the artist should not be too hard on themselves because historically what draws the attention of the masses rarely turns out to be great art. Being able to click-bait mass atte

Masha Luch is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with video, photography, installation, textiles, book arts, and printmaking. With a background in fashion design and motion graphics, Masha has been extensively published by Point Pleasant Publishing, both in the Artist Feature Catalogue and Point Pleasant Journal . Her most recent exhibitions include The House of Smalls Gallery in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Onboards Biennale / M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp,

Nancy Staub Laughlin is an assemblage artist who has exhibited throughout the Northeastern United States. Her work has been extensively critically published including by the late art critic Sam Hunter from Princeton University. Some recent exhibitions include Gormley Gallery at Maryland University in Baltimore, Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, Monmouth Museum in Lincroft, New Jersey, Carter Burden Gallery and West Gallery in New York. In terms of assemblage, Nancy Staub

Joas Nebe is a collage and video artist who has exhibited across Europe and the United States. Recent exhibitions include Decagon Gallery and Starta Arta Gallery in New York, Earth Gallery and Biddle Brothers in London, Fountain Street Gallery in Boston, and MADS Gallery in Milan. He has been published by notable publications such as LandEscape Contemporary Art Review - Biennale edition, New York Weekly, and Disruptor Magazine. The collage work of Joas Nebe focuses on how sem

Pauline Galiana is an installation, assemblage, and video artist who has exhibited particularly across the Northeastern United States. Recent exhibitions include International Drawing Space, A Space Gallery, LES Ecology Center, Artspace, Sojourner Gallery, Human Impact Institute, and Westbeth Gallery in New York, The Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck, New Jersey , Town Hall Community Center Gallery in Randolph, New Hampshire, and Kay Daugherty Gallery in Solomons, Maryland. F

Ann Vollum is a fiber and textile artist who has exhibited extensively in the New Jersey / New York metropolitan area. Recent exhibitions include Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University in Newark, Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, Culture Lab and The Painting Center in New York, Art House Productions, Gallery 14C, and Gallery Art 150 Gallery in Jersey City, Leach Gallery, in Montclair, and Watchung Arts Center. Usually depicting fantastical creatures which she describes

Reggie Davis is an analogue digital and video artist who has displayed his video works at The Phillip K. Dick film festival in New York City and Los Angeles as well as the Colortape International Film Festival in Australia. He is the recipient of several grants including from the San Francisco Arts Commission and Senior Cohort Grant from The African American Cultural Center. These digital artworks by Reggie Davis are largely derived from video stills and digitally altered in

Jiayi Gu is a landscape and urban photographer who has exhibited in the United Kingdom and China. Recent exhibitions in London include Espacio Gallery, Youth Mobile Photography, Exhibition, Filet, University of the Arts, and Grays Wharf Gallery. Her biography described her work as “working through image, material, and the spatial experience of perception, Gu investigates how time and attention shape the way we see. Her photographic and spatial works share a contemplative sens

Ziyu Wei is a documentary photographer who has exhibited recently in Espacio Gallery and The Koppel Project in London, WPAC in Wuhan, China, and ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER in Linz, Austria. Her biography describes the work as “rather than offering straightforward representation, Wei’s images function as emotional architectures, tracing the residues of desire, anxiety, and tenderness that define modern existence. Within these shifting spaces, she reflects on how human vulnerabilit

Written by Joas Nebe Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses 3 December 2025 - 10 May 2026 Museum Tinguely Paul Sacher-Anlage 1
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Monday closed https://www.tinguely.ch/en.html The Tinguely Museum in Basel is showcasing an exhibition by the American artist Carl Cheng (*1942). This exhibition focuses not only on his works relating

Paige Young is an analogue photographer who has exhibited across the United States and Europe. Recent exhibitions include The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Florence Biennale, O’Hanlan Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, California, and Goddess Arts Gallery in KunstMatrix, Denmark. She has served as a juror for multiple exhibitions in Michigan and her awards include Influential Women Recognition by Influentialwomen.com , NYWeekly’s Top 30 Female Disruptors of 2025 to Watch F

Austin Lubetkin is an analogue digital collage / assemblage and new media artist as well as an experimental sculptor who has exhibited in major cities including Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo. Recent exhibitions include multiple showings at TAG Gallery in Los Angeles, Sasse Museum of Art in Pomona, California, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Awita Gallery in New York, The Los Angeles Makery, Mount Dora Center for the Arts in Mount Dora, Florida, and Friends Art Gallery, B

My name is Masha Luch. I am a contemporary interdisciplinary artist. In my practice, I explore different forms of communication, the theme of memory, the perception of time and space, and the search for one’s place within that space. A central aspect of my work is the aesthetic of absence: situations in which removal, exclusion, or reduction allows attention to focus on a thought or a sensation. I am drawn to ciphers and riddles, to motifs of observation and quiet looking, to

Lisa Leitner is a digital collage artist who has won multiple recognitions including a scholarship and Creative Vision Award from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) as well as several artistic awards from St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland. Her practice can be described as conveying: “ Natural objects such as plants and landmarks…[which carry] the essence of particular environments and moments in time. Through the merging and separation of media, I i

Timothy Hall is a digital photographer with a background in corporate photography and videography. He describes his process as the following: “ I began using long exposures and motion…as I wanted the camera to ‘make’ the picture, not simply ‘take’ the picture…Then I apply different blending algorithms, which are just mathematical formulas, not all different from the chemistry in analogue photography. Every piece I create uses the full frame of the camera, with no other manipu

George McConnell is a theatre director, curator, and performer who has extensively directed national, international, local, juried, and academic performances. Recent venues which have hosted his performances include Texas A&M University, INVERSE National Performance Art Festival in Arkansas, Center for Performance Research and Panoply Performance Lab in Brooklyn as well as the International Fringe Festivals in Tampa and Denver, which granted him a Venue Tech Award and the #Fr

Van O (Ivan Isaev) is a conceptual photographer with a background in theatre (as an actor) and biology who has exhibited across Europe and in the United States. Recent exhibitions include Museum Kesselhaus in Berlin, MORA Museum of International Art in Jersey City, RevArt Gallery in Mountain View, California, Olympic Building in New York, Аnnenkirche and the Erarta Contemporary Art Museum in St. Petersburg, Gallery of Classic Photography in Moscow, Museum of Actual Realism in

Clara Fortis is an installation artist and experimental sculptor who has exhibited in major cities including Paris and New York as well as in Switzerland. Notable exhibitions include Galerie Au Roi, Vie Projects, Gallery 45, and Gallery D in Paris, Thompson Gallery in Zug, Switzerland, and 25 East Gallery in New York. She has been published by Dépaysants magazine, Dawn newspaper, Merde Magazine, and The New School. Clara has also participated in a residency at Ateliers Sculpt

When I was a senior in high school, I grew a specific fascination with conceptual art. One of my art teachers at the time, Mr. Murphy, corrected me when I was discussing with him about conceptual art. He stated: “All art is conceptual. There is no such thing as conceptual art”. At the time, I believed him because I was young. However, today as a critical writer with experience, I strongly disagree with such a notion. There is clearly a difference between conceptual art and no

For this particular essay, we will be discussing Star Smart’s experimental photography series referred to as The Flowers: Overcoming & Healing . These photographs were taken with a cell phone and digitally altered with an obsolete phone application which no longer exists. The series depicts sets of piles of mediation pills formed into a circle with their colors altered to appear hallucinogenic, full of bright neon tones. The other part of the series of the Healing contains sm