CHRISTIAN STEIN | DEPOSITO
To mark its sixty years of activity, the Galleria Christian Stein is opening to the public its former industrial spaces on the outskirts of Milan (Via Vincenzo Monti 46, Pero/Milan). From April 10 to June 6, 2026, it will be possible to see a broad selection of works from the gallery’s storage facility, on permanent […]
Boy With Thorn
Open Thursday through Sunday 10am – 4pm Boy With Thorn is the inspection of a nagging pain, the moment of pause in search of relief. In the show’s initial reference, Spinario (a Greco-Roman Hellenistic bronze predating the 1160s) a young boy is sat on a stump, bent over, withdrawing a thorn from his heel. The […]
Background Layer
In Adobe Photoshop, the Background Layer is the default layer upon opening up the application; it is initially locked and protected, and alterations cannot be applied to it. A photographer is often a background layer to how we understand reality. An image can be static or erratic, demonstrative of a place or a person. Each […]
To Lure, To Hunt, To Catch
To Lure, to Hunt, to Catch is an exhibition by Valentino Vannini and Joanna Wierzbicka curated by Sophie Nowakowska that explores power, seduction, and bodily display. Drawing on animal tails and historical garments such as codpieces, the exhibition explores how bodies communicate dominance, vulnerability, and desire, and how function becomes exaggeration. Elements such as padding, […]
If you feel me, I am you
If you feel me, I am you is less a title than a statement. It is an invitation to empathy that directly addresses the viewer, suggesting that recognition is born from shared experience: “If you understand what I am talking about, it is because it has happened to you as well.” In her first solo […]
Friends Looking at Friends
“Friends Looking at Friends” presents new portraits of Breslin’s peers and family members, interspersed with delicate, playful still lifes. Her practice—exploring identity, home, motherhood, and connection—has adopted a more considered approach in recent years. After five years in New York and Mexico City, Breslin returned to London in 2019, reconnecting with her childhood home. She […]
A Stranger to Myself
This exhibition was documented on Sunday, July 13th, 2025 in Taiban, New Mexico when the artist and his family took a trip there together. The paintings were created in Santa Fe, New Mexico during the summer of 2025. “A Stranger to Myself” is the third track on the album, I Was a Mod Before You […]
Birds of Paradise
Solo exhibition in the main wing. A system of elevated wooden frameworks runs through the corridors. These structures operate simultaneously as supports and as passageways: they direct movement, frame sightlines, and produce partial concealments. Visitors move under, around, and alongside them, becoming aware of their own bodies in relation to architecture. The structures function less […]
Go
The Go Protocol by Perce Jerrom involves preparing an individual survival kit designed to sustain someone outside their home for 72 hours in case of emergency. For his exhibition at Friends and Family, the artist invited the three curators of the space to create their own kits.
LEFTOVERS
B-SIDES, OUTTAKES, SURPLUS OR OTHER EXAMPLES OF EXCESS THAT CAN BE READ, VIEWED, LISTENED TO OR, MOST TYPICALLY, EATEN AT A LATER POINT WHAT ARE LEFTOVERS? ⁃ KEITH J. VARADI, JANUARY 2026