Some artists explain their work. Others let you sit with it. Simona Ray  does neither. She pulls you into it. Her paintings and poems don’t start with clarity. They start with something harder to hold. A feeling you recognise before you can name it. The kind that sits just under the surface and waits for a moment of stillness to rise. This is the first conversation in a new series with Ray, and it begins at the core of everything she creates. Myth, memory, and the inner life.

Most homes are designed around constraints. Space, structure, regulations, what you can change and what you can’t. This one begins from the opposite place. Set along the edge of the Volga in the Tver Region, the House of Five Roofs is being developed by Alexander Tischler LLC, led by creative director Karen Karapetian. It is still in the design stage, with completion expected in 2029, but the thinking behind it is already clear. This is not a house built to fit into everyday

There is a particular kind of stillness you expect in Venice. The kind that comes from water, from age, from history sitting exactly where it has always been. What Lu Yang does at the Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia unsettles that completely. DOKU The Illusion , on view from May 8 to October 4, arrives during the orbit of the La Biennale di Venezia, but it does not try to compete with the noise of it. Instead, it pulls you inward. Not into the past, which Venice tends to offer,

There are parts of a city that hold onto a certain feeling long after the people who shaped them have gone. Verkhnaya Maslovka is one of those places. For decades, it became an informal home for Soviet painters, sculptors and graphic artists, a street where studio life and domestic life blended into one. It was not planned that way, and that is exactly why it worked. The identity of the place came from how people lived there, not how it was designed. That is the context behin

At Tegernsee, a movement built on light, space and perception returns with clarity There are rare moments in art history when a generation does not attempt to refine what came before, but instead chooses to abandon it altogether. In the late 1950s, across a recovering Europe, that moment arrived with a quiet but decisive force. The exhibition ZERO. An International Artists’ Movement. 1957–1966 , now on view at the Olaf Gulbransson Museum, revisits a period in which artists re

A new airport design in Omsk by KPLN architectural bureau proposes a considered reworking of a historically defensive form into a modern piece of infrastructure defined by openness, clarity and movement. The concept draws directly from the idea of the ostrog , the traditional Russian wooden fortress, historically positioned as a protective structure on the edge of settlement. In this project, that reference is not replicated but reinterpreted. The fortress becomes a point of

This April, Art Paris reclaims its position as one of the key moments in the European art calendar, returning to Grand Palais from 9–12 April 2026. Set against the scale and architecture of the Grand Palais, the 2026 edition brings a sharper curatorial direction, structured around two central themes that explore how artists are responding to language, history and cultural continuity in a rapidly shifting global context. At the forefront is “Babel: Art and Language in France”,

A museum becomes something far more dynamic this spring in Potsdam, as Oscar Murillo takes over DAS MINSK Kunsthaus with Collective Osmosis , an exhibition that pushes painting beyond the canvas and into shared experience. On view until 9 August 2026, the project reimagines the role of the museum itself. Rather than a static environment, DAS MINSK is activated as a space of exchange, participation and dialogue, where visitors are not just observers but contributors within a c

This spring, Bunny Rogers returns to SOCIÉTÉ with a new solo exhibition that blurs the boundaries between autobiography, digital culture and psychological space. Titled My Original Friend , the exhibition opens on 12 March and runs until 18 April 2026 in Berlin, marking Rogers’ fourth solo presentation with the gallery. Known for her deeply introspective and often emotionally charged work, Rogers has built a practice that draws from personal memory, internet culture and fragm

If most art fairs are about polite observation, The Other Art Fair has other ideas. Returning to The Truman Brewery from 5–8 March 2026, the Spring edition presented by Saatchi Art once again positions itself as the anti-velvet-rope alternative to the conventional fair circuit. This is not a maze of silent booths and speculative price tags. It is participatory, irreverent and openly artist-led. Across four days in East London, 176 independent artists will showcase work but th

This spring, ARTEFACT Gallery in Berlin presents Self as Solvent , a solo exhibition by Polish-born, Berlin-based painter Jagoda Bednarsky, on view from April 24 to June 25, 2026. Bringing together new paintings and watercolours, the exhibition unfolds as an exploration of identity in flux, where the self is treated not as a fixed construct but as something porous, mutable and perpetually negotiated. The title gestures toward painting’s own material condition. Solvent dissolv

There are artists who make work to be looked at, and then there are artists who make work that looks back. Simona Ray belongs firmly to the latter. Through her practice under Sentient To Paint, Ray is building a body of work that is not concerned with decoration, trends, or surface-level beauty. Instead, it asks something far more uncomfortable and far more necessary: are we truly seeing ourselves and each other, or simply passing through? Image Credit: Honza Martinec Ray’s w

Berlin-based gallery SOCIÉTÉ has announced an expansive and intellectually charged programme for Spring 2026, spanning major gallery exhibitions in Berlin alongside significant institutional presentations across Europe. Bringing together some of the most influential voices in contemporary and modern art, the season reflects the gallery’s continued commitment to rigorous curatorial practice and international cultural dialogue. Sculptural Dialogues in Berlin Isa Genzken, Tor, 1

From March 6 to May 31, 2026, the Vienna Secession presents Circus , a powerful new solo exhibition by British artist Marianna Simnett, bringing together light, sound, and sculptural works in a deeply immersive exploration of memory, identity, and bodily experience. Opening on March 5, the exhibition draws on Simnett’s Yugoslav heritage and personal family history, weaving together references to folklore, performance, and historical trauma. Central to the project is the idea

Perched above the shimmering waters of Gelendzhik Bay, this newly completed villa on Russia’s Black Sea coast is more than a luxury residence. It is a living archive of travel, memory, and personal discovery—an elegant home shaped by a family’s lifelong passion for exploration. Designed by Oksana Trunova in collaboration with international furniture brand Dantone Home, the project transforms a dramatic coastal site in Gelendzhik into a refined, timeless retreat overlooking th