0
Skip to Content
The Art Bystander
The Art Bystander
Substack
Instagram
Podcast
by Appointment
Intelligence
About
Contact
The Art Bystander
The Art Bystander
Substack
Instagram
Podcast
by Appointment
Intelligence
About
Contact
Substack
Instagram
Podcast
by Appointment
Intelligence
About
Contact
Rita Ackermann has never taken the obvious route through painting.

In “The Chemical Alphabet”, her new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s Wooster Street gallery, Ackermann works with letters from the Aleph-Bet. Each symbol gives th
In London’s Holland Park, husband-and-wife designers Claire Sá and Max De Rosée of @deroseesa have reworked a Victorian townhouse as a living framework for an evolving contemporary art collection.

The owners, an Eastern European
Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s São Paulo house, 1970–1974.

At Casa Millán, the street pavement continues towards the living room. An unusual starting point for a private home, allowing the city a presence within the domestic inter
Fernando Sánchez Castillo @fernandosanchez_castillo examines the objects that teach us to admire power. I had the pleasure to get a private tour of his monumental exhibition.

The Azor once carried Francisco Franco. In Sánchez Castillo&
A record price tells us very little about whether artists can afford to keep working.

In 2025, fewer than 0.3% of auction lots produced almost 45% of global auction sales by value, according to Rachel Pownall, cited by The Art Newspaper.

These figu
20x Madrid snapshots during the amazing @arte_madrid weekend. This is the art capital of southern Europe and I just the vibe here. More to come. 

#artemadrid #madrid #art #theartbystander #artlovers
The body is never fixed in George Rouy’s work. It stretches, folds, merges and reforms, caught somewhere between intimacy and estrangement, flesh and image.

At Hauser & Wirth’s 22nd Street gallery in New York, ‘REPRISE’ c
James Bond may be outside on the pavements of Belgravia, but inside, the mood belongs to Federico Fellini.

For this London apartment, Milanese AD100 firm @dimorestudio has taken the familiar language of a classic British interior and quietly destabi
Opening today at @1miramadrid, LAS BABAS DEL DIABLO brings Chema López and Alain Urrutia into a conversation about painting, photography and the unstable distance between seeing and knowing..

The title comes from Julio Cortázar’s
Artist Tom Sachs has rebuilt Chanel’s 31 Rue Cambon inside his longtime SoHo studio. It is a boutique where nothing is for sale.

The cream awnings, mirrored walls and interlocking Cs are all there. Inside sit 31 Chanel suits, shoes, jewellery
Discover Mia Goldstein @miagolds  whose first solo exhibition in New York, ‘Handle With Care’, opens at The Journal Gallery @thejournalgallery in Tribeca.

Goldstein paints a corner of the contemporary art world that rarely receives atten
Maurizio Cattelan has been awarded the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie.

To mark the occasion, the Neue Nationalgalerie presents ‘NIGHT’, Cattelan’s first major solo exhibition in Germany.

Created for Mies van der Rohe’s glass
Selma Morshedi’s painting deals with themes including mirroring, identification, and is an exploration of forms of the historical narrative. 

Her work articulates the recesses of the human spirit, without recourse to the discourses of biology
At the edge of Hydra, inside a former slaughterhouse overlooking the Aegean Sea, Nari Ward’s Until That Day transforms one of Hydra’s most charged spaces into a meditation on migration, memory and belonging.

Created specifically for the
After three decades at the forefront of fashion, Stefano Pilati @stefanopilati chose Berlin as a new starting point. Away from the runway, the campaign and the constant pressure to produce an image, he has created a home that feels intensely personal
There was a time when Berlin’s lack of money seemed inseparable from its abundance of possibility. Empty buildings, low rents and unfinished spaces gave artists room to fail, experiment and begin again. It was never as romantic as it now sounds
Follow us on Instagram
Subscribe to our Substack
Listen to our podcast
Magazine
Advisory
About
The Art Bystander 2023-2026 © All Rights Reserved.