Made up of architects, lawyers, journalists, scientists, and more, Forensic Architecture is part investigative research lab, human rights activism hub, political think tank, journalism bureau, artists’ collective, and detective agency. Based at...
‘Haute couture’s chief scientist’, ‘sorceress of style’, ‘avant-garde technologist’ are just some of the terms the press have used to describe the extraordinary Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Having...
In their most colourful issue yet, we step into the life and work of architect Francis Kéré, known in equal measure for his lighthearted and innovative architecture, his remarkable background, and...
mono.kultur #45 is a homage to the great mythical city that is New York. And who better to talk to about New York than Richard Price? The acclaimed writer gained...
Issue #44 of mono.kultur might just be the most adventurous yet: traveling from the deserts of New Mexico to the exclusion zone in Fukushima, from satellite orbits in space to...
Kuwaiti producer and artist Fatima Al Qadiri is somewhat of an enigmatic figure at the merging point between electronic music, fine arts and political theory. Bending and fusing different genres of...
If anything, the work of Sophie Calle might be best described as elusive. Whether it marks a moment of distant intrusion (following strangers on the street, working as a chambermaid...
Delirious, vulnerable bodies running, stumbling, sliding from ramps, crashing into each other in full flight; whirling dancers in states of trance and abandon; traces of patterns emerging and dissolving: the...
Edmund de Waal is a potter. His pots, plates, and vessels are the result of craft and mastership, but they are also so much more than that: they are experiments...
Politics and the dance floor make for uneasy bedfellows, and it is this uneasiness that drives most of the work of Terre Thaemlitz, confronting head-on issues that are usually off...
In 1991, River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, portraying two street prostitutes in ‘My Own Private Idaho’, took us on a trip to the dark side of the USA – a...
The new issue of mono.kultur with the legendary war photographer James Nachtwey has been a long time in the making – two and a half years in fact – but...
It is safe to say that Marina Abramovic is one of the most controversial, provocative and polarising contemporary artists practising today, which is already in itself no mean feat. Personifying...
