Sana Shahmuradova Tanska
The Rapture (2025)
Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw
The Kyiv-based artist Sana Shahmuradova Tanska’s monumental portray is well timed, reflecting “the violence and atrocities dedicated towards civilians and nature by Russia” in the course of the warfare in Ukraine, says the gallery. “The piece explores the resilience of the human spirit and transgenerational trauma, specializing in collective reminiscence in Ukraine,” says Kamila Walendykiewicz, an artist liaison consultant.
Junko Oki
Child gown (2025)
Kosaku Kanechika, Tokyo
Though she is in her 60s, the Japanese artist Junko Oki is an up-and-comer. She makes use of current textiles, embroidering them by hand in an act of private dialogue with the supplies and their distinctive histories. This child gown was initially made by the artist’s mom for Oki’s brother; Oki has embroidered a spiral on the backside, leaving the needle connected as a metaphor for a narrative that’s nonetheless persevering with.
Mirella Bentivoglio
Simbolo totale (1984)
Repetto Gallery, Lugano
The Italian artist, curator and performer Mirella Bentivoglio (1922-2017) was a key determine within the Nineteen Seventies who specialised in feminist visible poetry. She first displayed this tree (right-side up) in 1976 in a public sq., inviting passers-by to put in writing their ideas on slips of paper that might function its new leaves. Bentivoglio later lower the trunk off and flipped the tree, sitting inside it and studying a poem she had written utilizing the phrases on its leaves. Within the sculpture’s current and ultimate model, it has a wood egg hanging within the center—an emblem of start and origin.
Ndayé Kouagou
A not that soiled mirror (2025)
Nir Altman, Munich
This work by the Paris-based Ndayé Kouagou follows a TV journalist conducting road interviews, asking one query: “What do you consider what’s occurring right here and elsewhere?” The piece underscores the facility of mass media, reflecting on three common matters and emotions the artist is eager to spotlight—”unease, energy and vulnerability”, the gallery says. An unlimited mural emblazoned with the textual content “the place ought to we go from right here?” accompanies the video.
Tina Girouard
Partitions Wallpaper II (1974)
Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles
Though Anat Ebgi is new to Basel, the conceptual feminist artist Tina Girouard (1946-2020) first confirmed on the honest in 1977. A part of the Nineteen Seventies New York scene, Girouard used issues like vinyl flooring, wallpaper and material to make works that she would typically additionally characteristic in world-building performances. Her supplies—starting from these given by relations to ones she discovered at department shops—have been typically already classic by the point she used them, a reference to her working-class upbringing in rural Louisiana.
Alexandra Metcalf
Meeting: Peter, Jackson, David, Frederick (2025)
Ginny on Frederick, London
Every of those 4 grandfather clocks represents a person with whom Alexandra Metcalf has had “a sophisticated however nurturing relationship”, says Ginny on Frederick’s Freddie Powell. “She pulled them aside, then put them again collectively—a reference to bodily autonomy and feminine suppression.” Three of the clocks have already offered, and the fourth is on maintain.
Nika Kutateladze
Untitled (2025)
Gallery Artbeat, Tbilisi
Nika Kutateladze has turned Gallery Artbeat’s stand right into a fragmented home inside, evoking a typical front room in a depopulated mountain village in western Georgia. “Kutateladze’s apply explores how persons are leaving distant areas, leading to deserted buildings taken over by nature,” says Natia Bukia, the gallery’s co-founder.
