Flash Art / 350

FLASH ART #350 SPRING 2025 "IMAGE ARENA"

 

COVERS → ◯ Christine Sun Kim photographed by Joseph Kadow in the studio, Berlin, January 2025, wearing Bottega Veneta and Kuboraum. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art ◯ Sophie Calle photographed by Joshua Woods in her home, Malakoff, Paris, January 2025, wearing Chanel. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art ◯ Nat Faulkner photographed by Oscar Foster-Kane in his studio, London, January 2025, wearing Stone Island. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art ◯ Jon Rafman, Main Stream Media Network, 2025. Video still. Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers, Berlin / London / Los Angeles / New York.

 

FEATURES → ◯ Letter from the Editor ◯ Cover Story Survival Mechanism. Christine Sun Kim in Conversation with Olivia Parkes ◯ Cover Story Not (Not) An Autobiography. Sophie Calle in Conversation with Gea Politi ◯ Cover Story Happy Accidents, Silver Linings. Nat Faulkner by Anya Harrison ◯ Cover Story Virtual Flânerie. Visual Project by Jon Rafman ◯ Critic Dispatch Food for the Journey by Uzoamaka Manuka  ◯ ARCHIVE Eastern Values. Shirin Neshat in Conversation with Lina Bertucci ◯ Asymptotic Form. Tiffany Sia by Delaney Chieyen Holton ◯  Nasty Girl Kills English Language. Ebun Sodipo by Taylor Le Melle ◯ Unpack / Reveal / Unleash Image Theater Utopia. Kelsey Isaacs by Margaret Kross ◯ The Curist Tavros, Athens. Maria-Thalia Carras in Conversation with Ellena Savage ◯ Focus On Madrid: Hypnotic Laugh Track by Mangaliso Ngcobo ◯ Viscosities. Lucy Beech in Conversation with Filipa Ramos ◯ Studio Scene Between Ruins. Zazou Roddam by Ben Broom ◯ A Room with a View. Hardy Hill by Daniel Merritt ◯ THE OTHER SEES IN MY EYES. Peng Zuqiang by Ela Bittencourt ◯ Sculpting Light. Nana Wolke in Conversation with Michela Ceruti ◯ Fragments of Control. Visual Essay at Home by Betsy Johnson ◯ Letter from the City How do we repair? by Jasleen Kaur

  

REVIEWS → ◯ Julius Eastman and Glenn Ligon “Evil Nigger” 52 Walker, New York, by Nina Chkareuli-Mdivani ◯ Pan Daijing “Sudden Places” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, by Sheila Regan ◯ Alex Margo Arden “Safety Curtain” Auto Italia, London, by Isabelle Bucklow ◯ Rineke Dijkstra “Beach Portraits” Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, by Katharina Cichosch ◯ Cerith Wyn Evans “Borrowed Light Through Metz” Centre Pompidou-Metz, by Marie de Brugerolle ◯ Amy Feldman “Good Fortune” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, by Vanessa Joan Müller ◯ Julie Mehretu “A Transcore of the Radical Imaginary” Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, by Emily Grant.

 

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Flash Art is an international quarterly magazine and publishing platform dedicated to contemporary art, exploring developments in the cultural landscape through the work of artists, writers, curators and various personalities from the art world. One of the oldest art magazines in Europe, Flash Art was founded in Rome in 1967 by the Italian art critic and publisher Giancarlo Politi, before moving to Milan in 1971. Originally published in Italian and English, the magazine was split into two publications in 1978 (Flash Art Italia and Flash Art International). Distributed worldwide, the magazine is one of the most widely read in its field and has become a benchmark in its field.