Ragna Bley is a young painter who investigates the language of abstraction in large-scale works on canvas. In her works, colour and form seem to shift between the artificial and the organic, almost like chemical processes within living organisms. In the titles of the works, we see evidence of her…

Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz has adopted a mission of colossal magnitude: to preserve memories, narratives and stories deeply connected to artefacts that have been displaced or simply ceased to exist. Since 2007 Rakowitz has effortlessly sought to recreate the close to 8000 historical objects that were looted from the National…

The moral tale is a literary genre that was especially popular in Europe throughout the 18th century. As ways of being and doing were strongly tied to conventions assigned to social roles and genres, the rise of rationality and freethought, characteristic of this era, began re-organizing the so-called “natural order”…