With a practice that transverses sculpture, tapestry, graphic design, and large-scale installation, Pae White probes both material and motif. She explores the limits of a medium’s possibility and often upends its associations, repurposing everyday substances into sensory and revelatory new arrangements: Yarn becomes painting. Automotive lacquer is applied to organic forms. Jacquard weavings take on sculptural qualities. Paper is mistaken for bronze. For the artist, every artwork feels like a test, and nothing ever feels fully resolved. In this conversation, White joins Kimberly Bradley to discuss notions of beauty, craft, and processes of creation, particularly in relation to the artist’s newest body of work—on view in her solo exhibition “pushmi-pullyu” during Gallery Weekend Berlin at neugerriemschneider’s Christinenstrasse location.

How can photography unveil something that has always existed but remained unknown? This question, among many others, is explored in the work of Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, whose artistic practice embraces the slippery nature of photography. Through the combination of experimental analog techniques with digital means, Alexi-Meskhishvili creates controlled environments to give artistic direction but ultimately allows chance to take over in her processes of image-making. In this conversation, Alexi-Meskhishvili speaks with curator Carina Bukuts about challenging authorship, the darkroom as a stage and studio, and the concept of personal and collective memory in relation to the artist’s Georgian roots and the country’s Soviet history—themes also explored in her exhibition “Georgia,” on view at Galerie Molitor on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin.

Drawing on influences such as Arabesk culture, late modernity, and orientalist discourse, Göksu Kunak critically examines processes of self-Orientalization as well as strategies of camouflage, self-censorship, and speculative fiction through performance and installation. In the artist’s works, the powerful and hyperreal movements of bodybuilders, pole dancers, and climbers, among other motifs, are testaments to Kunak’s engagement with chronopolitics and hybrid textual forms to explore the performative languages of contemporary life. Watch Kunak and curator Léon Kruijswijk as they delve into the artist’s ongoing interest in simulacra and the notion of “crash”; the interplay between kinetic sculpture, spectacle, entertainment, and Turkish soap operas; their exhibition “REMAINS,” on view at Ebensperger; and a preview of a new production centered on sacrificial rituals.

What will the visual art world look like in ten or twenty years? In a time of accelerating change—fueled by ongoing geopolitical and economic crises, shifting discourses and audience expectations, strained cultural funding systems and the implementation of artificial intelligence to name but a few parameters—arts institutions and markets are looking to adapt to new realities. But how?

Drawing on András Szántó’s book The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues (2025), this talk explores an art world in flux, posing new challenges for its institutions as they chart a path to the future.