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Reflections
Layered: Mark Fish on the Works of Kai Rennes
Introducing a new six-part series in VSG Magazine: texts written by Mark Fish alongside the paintings of artist Kai Rennes — not reviews, not explanations, but a written layer added to each work.
Reflections
The Nuance That Cannot Be Seen — DASEIN
The first text in Layered, Mark Fish's six-part series written alongside the paintings of Kai Rennes. On All Things Shining — hundreds of transparent layers, and what escapes the eye and can only be spoken.
Reflections
A First Step Into Blockchain Art
For artists who have never touched it. No prior knowledge assumed — only curiosity. What follows gives you enough context to feel oriented, then walks you step by step into your first setup. By Gordana Zikic, Part One of a series.
Reflections
The Sea That Cannot Die
On shamanism, the ocean, and what we have forgotten about the water. The second essay in a series on shamanism and contemporary art, tracing the sea as threshold between worlds across fifteen years of artistic practice.
Exhibitions and Encounters
How Do You See
A day walking the Itinérances Foto festival in Sète with photographer Étienne Pons — two people, same light, same streets, two very different sets of photographs. Text and photographs by Yann Courté.
Artist Presentations
Where Gods and Humans Meet: On the Sacred Life of Color
The second in VSG's ongoing series on color — on the rainbow as a road between worlds, the theology of blue, the price of heaven, and why the body that approaches the sacred has always been dressed in color.
Exhibitions and Encounters
A House Full of Art — The World of François Sergio and Madeleine Molinier
Tucked into the park of Issanka near Sète, a house that doesn't work like other houses: over 1,500 works, two lifetimes of practice, and Madeleine Molinier still in the studio at nearly 90. Text and photographs by Yann Courté.
Reflections
The Threshold: On the Artist as a Shaman-Like Figure
The first in a series on shamanism and contemporary art. On the resemblance between two figures — the shaman and the artist — and what it means to work at the threshold between worlds.
Artist Presentations
The Color You Cannot Name: On Pigment, Perception, and the Private Languages of Color
The first in an ongoing series of VSG conversations on color — on the red that produces a physical sensation, butterfly wings that are not blue, and the ten million colors that have no name.
Reflections
The Value We Make Together
On networks, presence, and what grows when artists gather with intention — a reflection from VSG co-founder Gordana Zikic on what we are actually building together.
Projects & Research
MUMMY and DADDY — the life of the dead
Text by Mark Fish inspired by the work of Joshua Goode — on skulls, hotel rooms, fossilised desire, and Bartosaurus as the end of history.
Artist Presentations
The Weight of What You Make: On Wind, Light, and Slow Accumulation
A conversation with Yann Courté, Gordana Zikic, Bosko Begovic and Kai Rennes from a recent VSG session — on festivals, archives, prism cubes, and the 25 photoreceptor cells no one has explained yet.
Artist Presentations
Everything That Was Already There: On Twenty Years of Making
A profile of Gordana Zikic — interdisciplinary artist, co-founder of Belgrade Artist in Residence and Virtual Studio Groups, based in Barcelona. On Nepal festival figures, red MDF reliefs, hyperrealist film fragments, and fifteen years of photographing Barceloneta.
Exhibitions and Encounters
Dreams — VSG at Juxtapose, Aarhus 2025
In June 2025, Virtual Studio Groups participated in Juxtapose in Aarhus, Denmark — presenting Dreams, a collective wall of Instax images made by 21 artists from across the VSG community.
Artist Presentations
When the Image Disappears: On Photography, Memory, and the Art of Being Ready
A conversation with Joachim Froese — photographer, academic, and educator — from a recent Virtual Studio Groups session. On salt printing, Mars, mortality, and the professional discipline of being ready when the door opens.
Artist Presentations
Portraits of the "Unseen": On Digital Craft, Indigenous Knowledge, and Building a Life in a Forest
A conversation with Kübra Köprülüoğlu Aşanlı — visual artist and designer — from a recent Virtual Studio Groups session. On painting the erased, living off-grid, and what the forest left behind.
Artist Presentations
Where You Stand: On Migration, Stitch, and the Art of Making Together
A conversation with Maren Götzmann — Brisbane and Berlin-based artist — from a recent Virtual Studio Groups session. On Heimat, collective authorship, and what drawing carries across borders.
Exhibitions and Encounters
El agua nos llama — VSG Exhibition at The Local Air, Valencia
The first exhibition of Virtual Studio Groups artists in Spain — fifteen artists, fifteen relationships with water. A review of El agua nos llama at The Local Air, Valencia, February 2026.
Exhibitions and Encounters
Where Each Stitch Breathes — Britta Marakatt-Labba
An exhibition reflection on Britta Marakatt-Labba's major retrospective at Moderna Museet Stockholm — and how her approach to textile, embroidery, and narrative connects to questions every artist asks.
Projects & Research
Project PLAY — Juan Antonio Cerezuela
Three texts by Mark Fish responding to Project PLAY — Juan Antonio Cerezuela's residency in Belgrade, and the question of whether an artist can quit being an artist.
Projects & Research
The Room of Absence — Elena Greta Falcini
Text by Mark Fish inspired by the art project of Elena Greta Falcini — on presence, matter, the subject, and the room that fills itself with fiction.
Projects & Research
THE SUPER-EGO violence — on En buska by Vesuhely Americaan
Text by Mark Fish responding to En buska by Vesuhely Americaan — a critical reading of the exhibition from Uniarte.
Exhibitions and Encounters
VSG at Supermarket 2025 — Stockholm Independent Art Fair
In April 2025, Virtual Studio Groups participated in SUPERMARKET – Stockholm Independent Art Fair. For a group that lives and works across borders and time zones, the question of how to exhibit was as much part of the concept as the works themselves.
Books & Ideas
All books →Interaction of Color
Josef Albers's 1963 masterwork on color perception — not a theory to memorise but a set of experiments to do, demonstrating how color is always relative, always shifting, never quite what it appears to be.
RGB Colorspace Atlas
Three cube-shaped books mapping the entire RGB color space as a continuous printed gradient — every digital color combination possible, made physical.
Black: The History of a Color
Michel Pastoureau traces black from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century — the colour of death and monastic virtue, courtly luxury and rebellion, Newton's non-colour and fashion's eternal standard.
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