Emeka Ogboh: Life in a BottleMartin HerbertArtReview06 June 2024Memory and migration drive the Berlin-based Nigerian’s experiments in shared sensory abundance, which highlight the artworld’s conservatism along the way
Matthew Wong, Vincent van Gogh, Pas de DeuxMartin HerbertArtReview29 April 2024By pairing the artists, ‘Painting as a Last Resort’ at Van Gogh Museum cuts past many arguments about linear art history
Antje Majewski Goes There With AIMartin HerbertArtReview28 March 2024‘the man who disappeared (amerika)’ at Neugerriemschneider, Berlin reanimates Majewski’s great-great-granduncle and his milieu of the American West
Is Contemporary Art a Pleasure-Free Zone?Martin HerbertArtReview06 March 2024Art tends to treat enjoyment as something to be dissected and analysed – or, more plainly, as something bad
Thea Djordjadze’s Mental TicklesMartin HerbertArtReview31 January 2024‘the ceiling of a courtyard’ at Wiels, Brussels unites sculptures and photographs with a sense of purposeful withholding
Jan Van Imschoot’s Reputational AsymmetryMartin HerbertArtReview04 January 2024‘The End Is Never Near’, a retrospective at S.M.A.K., Ghent illuminates the work of a little-known figurative painter
Cian Dayrit’s AntiauthoritarianismMartin HerbertArtReview Asia18 December 2023‘Schemes of Belligerence’ at Nome, Berlin presents a seething counter-history of colonisation, revolution and militaristic control of the Philippines