ARTMargins Online

Contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries

Monthly Archive: December 2025

ARTMargins Online: Exhibition Reviews

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 by Vera Gailis ·

Recipes for Broken Hearts: The Bukhara Biennale as Heritage Spectacle and Critical Absence

Bukhara, Uzbekistan, September 5—November 20, 2025

The inaugural Bukhara Biennale, Recipes for Broken Hearts, enters the global art scene with immense ambition. Presented as the first large-scale contemporary art event in Uzbekistan and, more broadly, in Central Asia, it has been framed as a milestone in the region’s cultural visibility. Its location, among caravanserais, restored madrasas, and public squares of one of the oldest Silk Road cities, appears designed to merge heritage and futurity. Yet beneath this image of cultural arrival lies a complex interplay of state strategy, curatorial positioning, and political silence.

The guidebook lists close to two … Read more

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What’s in the Margins? Art and the Periphery: Online Workshop by the New ARTMargins Online Advisory Working Collective  

The first workshop organized by the newly founded ARTMargins Online Working Advisory Collective  took place on December 6, 2025 and focused on contemporary art practices or curatorial models and their relationship with the margins. Workshop participants analyzed marginality broadly in aesthetic, political, economic, and institutional terms. Avoiding conventional “center/periphery” models, the Worskhop viewed the the margins not simply in geographic terms but as a dynamic and relational concept that may as such refer to social, political, linguistic, textual, or economic peripheries, as well as to modes of self-positioning that challenge hegemonic orders. “Art on the periphery” may refer to art … Read more