‘For Ibrahim Mahama, past failures spur creativity in the present’. Gabriella Nugent reviews the artist’s solo exhibition ‘Songs about Roses’ Fruitmarket contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘“THIS SPACE WILL SHOW YOU YOUR SOUL” is written on the lobby’s wall, with the warning, “YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU SEE”.’ Tom Denman reviews ‘THE SOUL STATION’ by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley @VirtuaTransMyst, commissioned by LAS Art Foundation contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘The solo exhibition by Silvia Bächli at Centro Botín, Santander – her first in an institution in Spain – is conceived as a musical score’. Read the review of ’Partitura’ Centro Botín by @CatherineDaunt contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

'The publication "An Exorcism: A Photo Romance" by Penny Slinger has been nearly half a century in the making'. Daniel Culpan Daniel Culpan reviews Slinger's book, published by Fulgur Press to coincide with her recent exhibition Richard Saltoun. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War’ tackles the ‘anxieties of displacement, spectatorship and living in the aftermath of modernity’. Our Editorial Assistant, Yi Ting Lee, reviews Yuan’s solo exhibition, the Taiwan collateral event La Biennale di Venezia. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘A pioneer of both video and feminist art, Nil Yalter has championed marginalised voices for the past five decades’. Elizabeth Fullerton profiles the French–Turkish artist, who won a Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at this year’s La Biennale di Venezia. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/artic…

In this week’s interview Amah-Rose Abrams speaks to Simnikiwe Buhlungu about her use of water, where it came from and where it might end up. Buhlungu’s solo exhibition is on view now at Chisenhale Gallery. Read the interview here: contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/artic…

Some highlights from Artissima: Shuo Hao Galerie Derouillon, Adéla Janskà Gal. RolandoAnselmi, Belen Uriel Galeria Madragoa and Nevine Mahmoud at Soft Opening

‘With humour and irony, Nicola L.’s women-objects confront the politics of domestic labour, forcing viewers into a perverse relationship that leads them to question their own position in society’. Clelia Rebecchi reviews Nicola L. Camden Art Centre contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘Marianne Berenhaut does not sculpt, she assembles’. Maximiliane Leuschner profiles the Belgian artist, whose sixty-year career has been governed by redirections and reinventions. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/artic…

Issue 11 of ‘Burlington Contemporary Journal’ will launch on Friday 29th November. More details coming soon. ⁠ contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal?utm_so…

‘Burlington Contemporary Journal’ publishes pioneering research on art made after 1960. Issue 11 is now live and free to read, featuring five peer-reviewed articles and an artist commission by Juno Calypso. Read for free: contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/journa…

Hamad Butt’s work ‘aims to defamiliarise, to make us not feel at home, neither in our own house nor in this increasingly broken world’. Theo Gordon reviews the artist’s first retrospective, ‘Apprehensions’ IMMA contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

This week, we publish ‘Waiting for Pope.L’ by Legacy Russell, an excerpt from ‘Pope.L: Hospital’ published by South London Gallery and DISTANZ. The book documents the artist’s last solo exhibition before his death in December 2023. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/articles/artic…

‘It is as though the artist is demonstrably avoiding our current era, in search of another’. For our final publication of 2024, Chris McCormack reviews Louis Fratino’s solo exhibition ‘Satura’ Centro Pecci contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘Often structured using musical refrains, his vignettes variously elicit shock, disgust, suspense and nervous or sardonic laughter.’ Maria Walsh reviews Diego Marcon’s new film ‘La Gola’ (2024), currently installed at Kunsthalle Wien Read for free at contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

‘Taking its name from the influential American “Radical Software”, the exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of digital art to adopt a feminist perspective’. Marilena Borriello reviews ‘Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991’ MUDAM Luxembourg contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…