December Highlights

[Mousse]

Explore this month’s selection of articles and new books, highlighting the finest content published during the final weeks of 2026, as we send you our warmest wishes for a restful winter break and the year ahead! Highlights: Discover Tendered, the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the filmic works of Karimah Ashadu, winner of the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist at the 2024 Venice Biennale, with Disciplines of Desire: A Conversation with Karimah Ashadu excerpted from the volume and Cannot Resist Seeing, the essay by Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi featured in Mousse 89–Fall 2024. “Isn’t it infuriating that ‘politics,’ and party politics in particular, still have the power, in this day and age, to play so callously fast and loose with the fragile legacies of decades of innovative and pioneering cultural work?” Read Dieter Roelstraete’s opinion on the proposed closing of Antwerp’s M HKA. On the occasion of the release of Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: Soy Energía (available also in German), the catalogue accompanying the artist’s first institutional survey exhibition in Europe at Haus der Kunst, Munich, read an excerpt from What Does Being a Woman Mean?, a conversation between Sandra Vásquez de la Horra and Jana Baumann, curator of the show with Marlene Mützel. We are excited to share that Kunsthaus Hamburg and Mousse have teamed up for a long-term collaboration dedicated to promoting emerging artists from Hamburg. The annual exhibition of the Hamburg Grants for Visual Arts adopts a new title, FUTURE CONTINUOUS, along with a new visual identity and a catalogue designed and distributed by Mousse Publishing. OPINIONS Flemish Primitivism: An Expat’s Musings on the Proposed Closing of Antwerp’s M HKA by Dieter Roelstraete “Two days before the opening of the itinerant 2025 Kyiv Biennial at the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA) in October, Flemish minister of culture Caroline Gennez, completely unexpectedly and apparently without consulting any of the parties concerned, unveiled an ambitious new plan entailing a radical reorganization of Flanders’s institutional ecosystem that, in just over two years’ time, aims to result in the closing of M HKA.” NEW TITLES Karimah Ashadu: Tendered €35.00 Discover the Book CEROLI TOTALE €30.00 Discover the Book REVIEWS Nairy Baghramian “nameless” at WIELS, Brussels by Gabriela Acha “For her exhibition nameless at WIELS, Nairy Baghramian looks to the fringe of her neatly finished, large-scale artworks, stripped of the paraphernalia. Here, the preparatory parafernalia—drafts, casts and models—is transformed into the neatly finished product, the artwork. The impulse applies equally to material and to method. Drawings, drafts, and humble assemblages are presented as ‘works’ building up discourse, emphasizing process and collaboration as well as the ligaments connecting the elements.” NEW TITLES Brice Dellsperger: Twelve Body Doubles €30.00 Discover the Book Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: Soy Energía €40.00 Discover the Book BOOK REVIEWS Books by Luca Lo Pinto Embracing a wide range of languages and geographies, Hanuman Editions, a new independent publishing house founded in 2023 by Shruti Belliappa, revives Hanuman Book’s legacy. Within Hanuman Editions’ catalogue of republished old titles and new authors, Luca Lo Pinto reviews Bob Flanagan’s Fuck Journal (1987), Eka Kurniawan’s Love Never Dies (2025), and Vivek Narayanan’s The Kuruntokai and Its Mirror (2024). Photo: Alessandra Spranzi NEW TITLES Future Continuous €25.00 Discover the Book Parallels €27.00 Discover the Book REVIEWS Alberto Garutti, “Incipit” at C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Milan  by Giulia Zompa Throughout Alberto Garutti’s (1948–2023) artistic trajectory, recurring echoes and early hints reveal his enduring interest in how the private and public intersect, and how personal experience becomes shared. Two shows in Milan—at C+N Gallery CANEPANERI (curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, with Archivio Alberto Garutti) and at the Museo del 900—open new entry points into his work through archival materials—texts, sketches, photographs—shown for the first time since his passing. TIDBITS Anna Clegg: Rendered in Low Resolution  by Rose Higham-Stainton Rosario Aninat and Simon Shim-Sutcliffe: Between Site and Surface, Intention and Trace by Olivia Aherne Subscribe now to receive an entire year of Mousse in print and access to our fully browsable digital archive. Looking for an institutional subscription? Enquire here to provide students and visitors with access to more than eighty issues to date.   Instagram  Facebook  Twitter  LinkedIn Mousse Magazine and Publishing via Decembrio 28, 20137 Milan Contact us here You have received this e-mail because you have successfully subscribed to Mousse Magazine and Publishing newsletter. You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this distribution list at any time.  Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up here.