CURA. 44

The Generational Issue

The Generational Issue
Spring-Summer 25

Every creative act is the opportunity for a new beginning and a new meaning, with respect to the world that already exists. By defining new ideas and new horizons, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti thus summarized his idea of “bringing the world into the world” [“mettere al mondo il mondo”] and the potential of reinventing the world through art and action.

The Generational Issue is in this sense a generative issue, in its ability to bring the existing into the world. If every single creative act has value in itself, the sense of a community or of an entire generation of artists defines the very sense of the time we live in. But how do you define a new generation of artists?

A new generational cohort is created every twenty-twenty five years with its progeny of ideas, space-time coordinates, models. Here, just three years after the first volume, The Generational Issue continues its investigation into a new generation of artists, with the aim of developing, expanding and deepening research on the most innovative figures in contemporary art, and providing a lineup as extensive, plural and indicative as possible of artists of today and tomorrow. With over fifty under-35 leading figures, the new The Generational Issue explores an extremely diverse landscape of practices and languages, defining an abecedary of key figures of a new generational front called upon to interpret the time in which today’s art is created and produced. A fundamental and progressive archive of artists, who, joining those of the previous volume, interpret themes, urges and frontiers of the emerging generation.

Contents

ASMA

Text by Margot Norton

Darja Bajagić

Text by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou

James Bantone

Text by Olamiju Fajemisin

Clovis Bataille

Text by Salomé Burstein

Monia Ben Hamouda

Text by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi

Beatrice Bonino

Text by Line Ebert

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Text by Wong Binghao

Ivan Cheng

Text by Niccolò Gravina

Tohé Commaret

Text by Martha Kirszenbaum

Pan Daijing

Text by Sarah Johanna Theurer

Isaiah Davis

Text by Whitney Mallett

Rhea Dillon

Text by Hannah Marsh

Andro Eradze

Text by Margot Norton

Olivia Erlanger

Text by Christopher Alessandrini

Lenard Giller

Text by Maya Tounta

Louise Giovanelli

Text by Phoebe Cripps

Diego Gualandris

Text by Sofia Gallarate

Aziz Hazara

Text by Francesca Recchia

Caspar Heinemann

Text by Kerstin Stakemeier

Jasmine Johnson

Text by Laura Albert

Karla Kaplun

Text by Juan Pablo Ramos

Doruntina Kastrati

Text by Zeynep Öz

Ndayé Kouagou

Text by Rita Ouédraogo

Tarek Lakhrissi

Text by Cédric Fauq

Hannah Levy

Text by Lola Kramer

Shuang Li

Text by Lina Martin-Chan

Xin Liu

Text by Yasaman Sheri

Lorenza Longhi

Text by Caterina Avataneo

Gabriel Massan

Text by Tamar Clarke Brown

Reba Maybury

Text by Hugo Bausch Belbachir

Lily McMenamy

Text by Calla Henkel

Zayd Menk

Text by Francesca Gavin

Maria Metsalu

Text by Gregor Kulla

Jota Mombaça

Text by Mateus Nunes

Nyala Moon

Text by Eva Reign

Rasmus Myrup

Text by Adriana Blidaru

Dala Nasser

Text by Myriam Ben Salah

Brandon Ndife

Text by manuel arturo Abreu

Valentin Noujaïm

Text by Negar Azimi

Josèfa Ntjam

Text by Martha Kirszenbaum

Jack O'Brien

Text by Giovanna Manzotti

Josiane M.H. Pozi

Text by Cynthia Igbokwe

SAGG Napoli

Text by Federico Sargentone

Coumba Samba

Text by Giulia Civardi

Tschabalala Self

Text by Shanekia McIntosh

Selma Selman

Text by Ruba Katrib

Joshua Serafin

Text by Jaya Jacobo

Diane Severin Nguyen

Text by Hung Duong

Akeem Smith

Text by Courtney Malick

Minh-Lan Tran

Text by Guillaume Blanc-Marianne

Gray Wielebinski

Text by Francesca Gavin

Issy Wood

Text by Mateus Nunes

Bruno Zhu

Text by Nick Irvin