Chloe Stead

At The George Economou Collection, Athens, the artist’s approach to death and dying is refreshingly unsentimental

From a biennale in three neighbouring Kosovar cities to the relaunch of an institution in Berlin featuring two days of blessings, performances, readings and rituals

The Passages director on independent filmmaking, censorship and the dynamics of power

From gallery expansions and closures to social media complicating relational aesthetics, three frieze editors discuss the year in art

Other highlights include boygenius’s European and North American tour and Phoebe Walker’s debut novel, Temper

From new fiction by Isabel Allende to the first Bulgarian novel to win the Man Booker International, the frieze team recommend new favourites and future classics

Despite good intentions, a polyvocal exhibition at MACAAL, Marrakesh, reaffirms the Malagasy artist as the star of the show

Other highlights include Ira Sachs’s sexy tragicomedy and an overdue English translation of an East German literary classic

The incoming director of SAVVY Contemporary shares his plans for the Berlin-based not-for-profit

From Cyprien Galliard’s triumphant homecoming in Paris to Bruno Zhu’s Barcelona debut, these are the best exhibitions of the year

For the opening week of Various Others, here are five unmissable exhibitions to see this autumn

From Atis Rezistans's take over of St. Kunigundis Catholic Church to a mesmerizing installation by Nhà Sàn Collective at the Stadtmuseum

At Crèvecoeur, Paris, the artist's new video work continues her interest in the results of rejection and subjugation on marginalized French youth

Chloe Stead talks with the artists about their personal approaches to mining the past

From Heidi Bucher's latex skinnings at Mendes Wood DM to Elen Braga's horse-themed tapestries, here are five shows not to miss in the Belgium capital during Art Brussels

In the second of our two-part round-up, Chloe Stead reviews the best pavilions across the Giardini

Chloe Stead talks to the curator about her appointment as director of Mudam Luxembourg, after nearly a decade heading the Kunstverein in Hamburg

To mark Kruger’s retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, artist Math Bass reflects on their former professor

At Halle für Kunst Steiermark, a thematic group exhibition underscores how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our relationship to the home

From neo-surrealist painting to coarse conceptualism, three frieze editors discuss the year in art