Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine

• “Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition” at Gropius Bau, Berlin

  Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition is Marina Abramović’s first major show in Berlin since the 1990s, juxtaposing historic works with new video installations. It explores how the artist uses the body as a vital force to confront political systems, histories and mythologies of the Balkan countries. Bringing together works from the 1970s to today, Balkan Erotic Epic.

• Whitney Biennial 2026

  Responses to the 2026 Whitney Biennial, curated by Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, have been generally lukewarm—a tepid contrast to the takedowns and even active boycotts that have met recent iterations.1 Left-oriented critics have identified the indeterminate curatorial framework as ducking the Whitney’s corrosive board, recently responsible for closing the museum’s Independent Study Program.2 The

• Latefa Wiersch “Atlas Studios“ at Istituto Svizzero, Rome

  Istituto Svizzero presents Atlas Studios, the first monographic exhibition in Italy by artist Latefa Wiersch  (b. 1982, Dortmund, based in Zürich). Specifically designed for the spaces of Villa Maraini in Rome, the exhibition evokes the studios of the same name located at the edge of the Moroccan desert and often used by international film productions to

• Reba Maybury “I Come in Peace” at Secession, Vienna

  How do you dominate Gustav Klimt? This was one of the first questions Reba Maybury posed while preparing her exhibition I Come inPeace. Maybury is an artist, writer, and political dominatrix whose multidisciplinary practiceinterrogates the intersections of feminism, sexuality, labour, and power. Her exhibition unfolds overfour sites—across the building’s façade, in the foyer, upstairs in