ISSUE 3 – WINTER 2025/26: Miles Greenberg

Miles Greenberg, born in 1997 in Montreal, Canada, is a sculptor and performance artist. His work encompasses elaborate productions, immersive environments, video pieces and life-size sculptures, always with a strong focus on the body. His spaces are activated through multi-hour performances in which the body is staged as sculptural material that pays homage to the poetics of the human form, often through the lens of the African diaspora. These performances take place live before an audience and form the foundation of both his video works and his sculptures.

Miles Greenberg aims to sharpen the viewer’s sensitivity by inviting them into his ritualistic spaces. Through stillness, deceleration and deconstruction, he seeks to evoke emotions that can be deciphered yet lie beyond language, circulating in and around the body. 

As part of the Reiffers Mentorship Program, Miles Greenberg and Daniel Buren each created an exhibition for Art Basel Paris 2025. Daniel Buren, the program’s mentor, has designed a permanent in situ work titled La Façade aux Acacias, which fully covers the façade of the Reiffers Initiatives Endowment Fund building at 30 Rue des Acacias in Paris’s 17th arrondissement. Miles Greenberg presents three new sculptures, Saint Michel terrassant le démon (Viorel), Persée tenant la tête de Méduse (Chinedu), and Saint Georges combattant le dragon (Grant), among which a performance took place. His exhibition is titled Gods of Solaris, inspired by Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris and Andrei Tarkovsky’s film adaptation.

Sadly, Leif and I weren’t able to attend the opening of Miles Greenberg’s new exhibition in Paris. Instead, we caught up over Zoom as he prepared his fresh morning juice.

This issue spans over 256 pages, documenting our journey, starting in Rome, where Nico Vascellari tells us about the relationship between nature, humans, and machines, as well as the backstory of our cover 1/8: his VIT performance, in which he forcefully put himself to sleep and was then carried by a helicopter over the mountains. Shortly after, we speak with Alicja Kwade at the Villa Massimo in Rome about her art.

Our Italian journey did not end there. In Milan, we meet with Formafantasma, and the Italian designer tells us about holistic design and the histories and stories embedded into objects. Via Zoom, we catch up with Miles Greenberg about his new exhibition in Paris, titled Gods of Solaris. Meanwhile, we are on our way to London to speak with Hania Rani about her new piece, Non-Fiction – Piano Concerto in Four Movements.

Back in Berlin, we speak with Ewan Waddell and Liubov Dyvak, who have just returned from a screening in Ukraine of their new movie, The Longer You Bleed, which explores society’s desensitization to the regular circulation of war imagery online. With C/O Berlin’s program directors, Boaz Levin and Sophia Greiff, we discuss how they exhibit photography in the age of social media and Instagram, explore new exhibition formats, and address cuts to cultural funding by the Berlin Senate and their consequences. This is directly followed by an interview with Berlin’s Kultursenator, Sarah Wedl-Wilson, in which we discuss her vision for Berlin and the implications for the city’s independent arts scene.

In addition, we interviewed six artists who are or were Berlin-based: Viola Del Monte, Giulio Sammarro, Justin Fiedler, Su Yu Hsin, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, and Hanne Lippard. We traveled to Munich to speak with Sorry Press, investigating their origins and story, followed by a brief visit to OBS’ studio in Augsburg, catching a glimpse into their world.

Last but not least, we conclude our journey by speaking with editors-in-chief about the question: What does it mean to make a magazine today? Conversations with Götz Offergeld (Numéro Berlin), Elke Buhr (MONOPOL), Sascha Ehlert (Das Wetter), Anton Rahlwes, Nina Sieverding (The Thing), and Sascha Chaimowicz (ZEITmagazin) provide insight. Finally, Christoph Amend reveals how and why he is trying to retell the beauty of Die ZEIT.

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