VSG Digital Art Magazine
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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.
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.
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.
Text by Mark Fish inspired by the work of Joshua Goode — on skulls, hotel rooms, fossilised desire, and Bartosaurus as the end of history.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Text by Mark Fish responding to En buska by Vesuhely Americaan — a critical reading of the exhibition from Uniarte.
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.
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.
Three cube-shaped books mapping the entire RGB color space as a continuous printed gradient — every digital color combination possible, made physical.
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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