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recessed.space is a platform for writing about art and architecture, and where the two intersect.

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00303 - Middlesbrough Art Week & The Auxiliary β€” recessed.space Temporary & permanent culture finds a place in Middlesbrough The 2025 Middlesbrough Art Week took place...

Temporary & permanent culture fine a place in Middlesbrough
by @willjennings.bsky.social

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00301-ArtPlay-Pavilion-Dulwich β€” recessed.space Playtime at the Pavilions: Carmody Groarke at Dulwich Picture Gallery After Peter Cook’s temporary play...

Playtime at the Pavilions: Carmody Groarke at Dulwich Picture Gallery
by @robfiehn.bsky.social

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22.10.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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THE RECESS 037
including: Terry Farrell / The design of Frieze / Two London institutions to expand / The Louvre hits the news for something else / New heads for Helsinki & Tallinn / Yinka Ilori floods MK with colour

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00300 - From Bauhaus to birdhouse β€” recessed.space From Bauhaus to birdhouse: world famous architects’ avian designs for charity In an exhibition at Christies...

From Bauhaus to birdhouse: world famous architects’ avian designs for charity

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09.10.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A Deeper Recess 014: a conversation with Sumayya Vally

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07.10.2025 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In search of oracular places at the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts

By Lorenzo Graf & Riccardo Buck

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03.10.2025 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Click here to read & subscribe to The Recess, out twice monthly free newsletter across art & architecture:
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29.09.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The built environment, politics, archive & music are ingredients for Leckey, who has also given a lot of thought to the millennium & what it meant for society & technology. All these ideas are present in Berlin, with a hook of medieval transformation.

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22.09.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The title of Mark Leckey's new Berlin exhibition invokes a bodily and historic narrative - thrown into a vortex with thoughts the internet, neoliberal space, found footage, music & more. Our conversation covered all these things and much, much more:

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We speak to Mark Leckey freshly after opening his major survey exhibition, with a large body of new work, at the Julia Stoschek Foundation over Berlin Art Week.

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22.09.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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00296 - Berlin Art Week 2025 β€” recessed.space Our highlights from Berlin Art Week 2025 We took a trip to Berlin to celebrate the capital city’s cultural scene over...

Our highlights from Berlin Art Week 2025

We took a trip to Berlin to celebrate the capital city’s cultural scene & in doing so not only discovered a rich breadth of art, but also some incredible architectural settings of all eras & genres.

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19.09.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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00295 - British Ceramics Biennial β€” recessed.space Post-industrial clay: the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent This year’s British Ceramics...

Post-industrial clay: the British Ceramics Biennial in Stoke-on-Trent
by Veronica Simpson

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17.09.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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THE RECESS 035 including: London Design Festival highlights / the Shoemakers' Museum / Berlin club at risk / Explore the lost Bank of England / Design Museum to expand / Jupiter Artland

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09.09.2025 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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00294 - Tolia Astakhishvili Venice β€” recessed.space Tolia Astakhishvili’s architectural excavation in Venice changes the way artists use the city The new home of...

TOLIA ASTAKHISHVILI’S ARCHITECTURAL EXCAVATION IN VENICE CHANGES THE WAY ARTISTS USE THE CITY

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A DEEPER RECESS 012: a conversation about V&A Storehouse with architect David Allin & curator Brendan Cormier We speak to architect David Allin & curator Brendan Cormier on the design process of V&A East Storehouse

A conversation about V&A Storehouse with Brendan Cormier, curator at the V&A, & David Allin of DS+R architects.

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01.09.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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00293 - Derrick Adams interview β€” recessed.space An interview with Derrick Adams on the spaces of Black America Derrick Adams is not only an artist, but he is also a...

An interview with Derrick Adams on the spaces of Black America

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30.08.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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00292 - Hauser & Wirth Downtown LA β€” recessed.space A visit to Hauser & Wirth Downtown LA: architecture, gardens, food & art recessed.space got a tour of Hauser...

A visit to Hauser & Wirth Downtown LA: architecture, gardens, food & art

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20.08.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Read The Recess 034 here:
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00291 - Edinburgh Art Festival 2025 β€” recessed.space Edinburgh Art Festival 2025: our highlights There’s a lot going on across Edinburgh in...

Edinburgh Art Festival 2025: our highlights

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15.08.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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00290 - housing at Venice Biennale β€” recessed.space Learning how to live at Venice Biennale Architecture biennials can struggle to find their mode...

Learning how to live at Venice Biennale
by @robfiehn.bsky.social

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13.08.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A DEEPER RECESS 011: an interview with Louis Pohl Koseda We spoke to Louis Pohl Koseda when he had a solo exhibition at Christies, London, having won the Christies Award from the Royal Drawing School.

A DEEPER RECESS 011: AN INTERVIEW WITH LOUIS POHL KOSEDA ON SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE, THE POWER OF DRAWING & THE IMPACT OF AI

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00289 - Matthew Rosier Luton Henge β€” recessed.space The country’s newest stone circle has been created in Luton as a space for gathering & community In a...

The country’s newest stone circle has been created in Luton as a space for gathering & community
by @willjennings.bsky.social

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07.08.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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00285 - Robert Clayton Provision β€” recessed.space A celebration of post-war utopian architecture for the people in a new book from photographer Robert Clayton ...

Another great review of my book can be found here:

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Thank you @willjennings.bsky.social @recessedspace.bsky.social
for an insightful reflection on the themes running through the images and texts

07.08.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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00288 - Ronald Rael interview Desert X β€” recessed.space An interview with Ronald Rael about 3d printed mud architecture at Desert X At this year’s Desert X festival of...

An interview with Ronald Rael about 3d printed mud architecture at Desert X

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05.08.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Recess 033

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00287 - What is Art For Ben Luke Heni β€” recessed.space Discover the culture & spaces that influence leading artists in a new book by Ben Luke ...

Discover the culture & spaces that influence leading artists in a new book by @benlukeart.bsky.social

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00286 - Mark Leckey Arthur Jafa Whitgift Croydon β€” recessed.space Mark Leckey & Arthur Jafa summon ghosts into an ever-shifting shopping centre Two seminal moving image...

Mark Leckey & Arthur Jafa summon ghosts into an ever-shifting shopping centre

by @elliebrown.bsky.social

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30.07.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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00285 - Robert Clayton Provision β€” recessed.space A celebration of post-war utopian architecture for the people in a new book from photographer Robert Clayton ...

Thank you to @willjennings.bsky.social for reviewing my new photo book @recessedspace.bsky.social - I am most grateful for his appreciation of my narrative throughout the book, an architecture photo book with a difference...
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00285 - Robert Clayton Provision β€” recessed.space A celebration of post-war utopian architecture for the people in a new book from photographer Robert Clayton ...

A celebration of post-war utopian architecture for the people in a new book from photographer @robclayton.bsky.social

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