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In this conversation, we speak with Chris Levine about the ideas behind “Higher Power”, its technical and conceptual foundations, and the broader questions his practice raises about perception, collectivity, and light in contemporary culture.
Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen presents his first solo sculptural exhibition in Venice, “We Thought We Were Alone”, at Palazzo Rota Ivancich, which is now officially open to the public as of 6 May 2026, coinciding with the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
Tashkeel presents “Unfolding”, a solo exhibition by Emirati artist Moza Al Falasi, slated to open on 15 May 2026.
The work of Wallace Chan resists easy categorization. It moves between sculpture and jewelry, physics and metaphysics, material precision and philosophical speculation. Over the past decades, he has not only redefined what contemporary jewelry can be, but has also constructed an entirely personal language – one in which gemstones become vessels of time, and matter itself seems to hesitate between presence and disappearance.
Petra Kaltenbach is a fine artist, video artist, graphic designer, curator and art advisor. Born in Duisburg, Germany in 1962, Petra began her career as a graphic designer and held the position as managing director and partner of an advertising agency in Germany from 1991 – 2002.
On March 3rd, the exhibition “Veiled Land” by Hoda Madi opened at the Gasco Gallery in Santiago, Chile. This is a solo exhibition of her work from the past three years. It runs until the end of April.
Opera Gallery Dubai presents ‘Al Nayed’, a retrospective exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of Abdulqader Al Rais, one of the defining figures of contemporary art in the United Arab Emirates. The exhibition will run from 26 March to 8 April 2026.
Join XVA Gallery from March 7th to April 6th, 2026 for Jane Beveridge’s first solo show that captures the essence of Dubai, and belonging.
Any serious inquiry into creative practice exacts an immediate toll: the shiver of encounter that art provokes risks being pinned, catalogued, thereby extinguished. In the case of Anna Nafigina (who goes by “Sister Annie”) this risk verges on outright desecration, […]
After decades of silence, Zeef Oria returned to painting not as a continuation, but as a transformation. His recent works feel less like images and more like states of being – suspended between chaos and calm, memory and presence, gesture and stillness. Rather than narrating stories, his paintings invite contemplation: they ask the viewer to slow down, to remain, to listen. In this conversation, we explore art not as production, but as an existential practice – a way of thinking, feeling, and encountering the unknown through paint.
