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6 stories across Performance Art, Contemporary, New Media, and Venice. Latest: Thaddaeus Ropac Announces Anna Jermolaewa's Performance Installation at Austrian Pavilion, Venice Biennale.
May 28, 2026. A nude performer wearing a belt with a metallic sphere climbs a rope to a giant bell in the Austrian Pavilion as part of Giardini, striking the bell hourly to produce a resonant alarm after a period of gray noise and silence.
On May 22, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac published a statement by artist Florentina Holzinger honoring Valie Export. Holzinger recounts writing about Export at age 14 and references the 1969 Genital Panic performance in Munich, where Export wore crotchless jeans in a cinema.
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents the premiere of Flaying of Marsyas, a new durational performance by artist Miles Greenberg, on November 13, 2025.
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in Berlin presents Nora Turato's installation they filled me up with words on the institution's facade. The work originates from the artist's latest cycle and the performance pool7, which receives its German premiere at Uferstudios on October 28, 2025.
Nam June Paik Art Center presented the 8th Nam June Paik Prize Exhibition, Joan Jonas: The More-than-Human World, from November 20, 2025 to March 29, 2026.
The Whitney Museum presents the exhibition High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100, which runs October 18, 2025–March 9, 2026. The show marks the centennial of Alexander Calder’s Circus (1926–31), one of the museum’s most iconic works.
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