Issue #47 “Techno-feudalism” Summer 2025
032c Issue #47—Summer 2025 “Techno-feudalism” is now available for pre-order. The 3 additional covers will be revealed soon.
A Women's Game with Caro Daur
032c Issue #47 “Technofeudalism” cover 2/4 featuring Caro Daur in A Women's Game. The issue is available for pre-order NOW.
A Rite of Release: 032c x Desperados Capsule Collection
ABC of AFX
Counter Display with Moreno Schweikle and Samsung
Artist Moreno Schweikle explores the tension between function and fiction through sculptural objects that challenge everyday design. For the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge , he created a site-specific artwork commissioned by 032c Gallery. In this interview with Claire Koron Elat, Schweikle reflects on material memory and producing art for a commercial context.
Learning From Antiquity: RM of BTS
RM’s confession that “the person I think I am doesn’t exist” in his cover story for 032c Issue #44 was only a foreshadowing of his album release. As he has now been officially discharged from mandatory military service, we’re revisiting and discovering who Kim Namjoon, not RM, really is, had he not taken the path of becoming a K-pop megastar.
By FIONA BAE
Chutes and Signals by Erwan Sene
032c Gallery is pleased to present “Chutes and Signals,” a solo exhibition by Erwan Sene on view from May 2 - June 15, 2025.
How To Make Music for a Runway Show with Michel Gaubert
Legendary sound designer Michel Gaubert — known for crafting runway music for Chanel, Dior, Valentino, Loewe, and long-standing collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld — explores four decades of fashion and sound in his debut book Remixed.
A Reality TV Star as President: Marco Brambilla
Artist Marco Brambilla explores spectacle, media saturation, and political fantasy in a world where a reality TV star can become president. In this interview, he reflects on Hollywood vs. art, authorship in the age of AI, and the collapse of the American Dream.
Are Video Games the New Movies? Hideo Kojima and Nicolas Winding Refn
The Weeknd Interviews Abel Tesfaye
In his new film “Hurry Up Tomorrow” (2025), Abel Tesfaye aka the Weeknd plays a fictionalized version of himself—an insomniac musician on the verge of mental breakdown who is pulled into a mental odyssey with a stranger. In this 2024 032c cover story shot by Harmony Korine/EDGLRD, the Weeknd interviews Abel Tesfaye.
By ROSS SCARANO
Joanna Kuchta: Disappearing Acts and Digital Divinities
“What is sacred now, in the age of the internet?” In a new interview, the Tumblr-era icon turned liminal-techno DJ Joanna Kuchta reflects on her Catholic upbringing, drunken bus rides, and her new single "disappear."
By CASSIDY GEORGE
Thaiboy aka DJ Billybool: Everything “DYR”
In 2020, Drain Gang member Thaiboy Digital created a new persona: DJ Billybool. In a new interview, he opens up about the power of Thai nightlife, running his own label, and his first Billybool album, "DYR" (out today).
By CASSIDY GEORGE
Come Tees Meets R. Crumb
What is it like to work with two legendary perverts? Come Tees’ Sonya Sombreuil explains why R. Crumb and Eric Kroll are actually kinder to women than most.
By SHANE ANDERSON
What Is Black Style?
What’s the difference between appropriation and homage? Max Rossi spoke with Pratt Institute professor Adrienne Jones and Rachelle Etienne-Robinson about the complexities of being labeled a “Black designer”—just before this year's Met Gala with the theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.”
By MAX ROSSI
What Can't Be Seen, Is What We Most Like To See
Typically what cannot be seen, is what we most like to see. And what cannot be comprehended, is what we are most interested in investigating.
A collaboration between CUPRA, Maria Koch, and 032c.
Beautiful Aliens: KLÁRA HOSNEDLOVÁ
On the occasion of KLÁRA HOSNEDLOVÁ’s show "embrace" for the CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof, we're revisting ESTELLE HOY's essay on her work for 032c Issue #43. The artist was photographed by VITALI GELWICH and styled by RAS BARTRAM.
By ESTELLE HOY
Julian Charrière: Ancient Reefs and Active Volcanoes
This Gallery Weekend, Berliners can see a new series of photolithographs created by artist Julian Charrière at Ruinart’s Champagne & Art Bar in the PalaisPopulaire. In honor of their collaboration, we revisit a feature interview with Charrière, conducted while ascending a volcano.
By ADRIANO SACK
HANS HOLLEIN: The Showroom Master
"Everything is architecture," according to Hans Hollein. In honor of his ongoing exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, we revisit a feature from the 032c archive that explores the Austrian architect's use of media, technology, and spectacle.
By ROBERT WIESENBERGER
Embracing Vulnerability with Michella Bredahl
“It was really intimidating at first because I didn’t always feel comfortable
being undressed in front of people—" Paige Silveria recently spoke with Michella Bredahl about pole dancing, outsider art, and transforming trauma into beauty.
By PAIGE SILVERIA
The Human Stain: Helmut Lang at the MAK Center at the Schindler House
In Los Angeles, a series of sculptures by artist Helmut Lang is currently on view in a home that was built in the 1920s as a radical social experiment. In a talk on site, curator Neville Wakefield and writer Hilton Als discuss the interplay between the art and architecture.
Doomscrolling
032c Gallery is pleased to present “doomscrolling,” a group exhibition with works by Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard, Pietro D'Azzo, Cameron Patricia Downey, Jason Gringler, Iida Jonsson & Ssi Saarinen, and Kev Koko, on view until April 29.
Soldier: "Painting is about making the things you love immortal"
For the Nigerian artist known professionally as “Soldier,” watching skate tapes and staring at Bible engravings served as early inspiration. In a new interview, he speaks to Max Rossi about running away from home, collaborations with Louis Vuitton, and his new exhibition in London, "Black Star."
By MAX ROSSI
The Real Capital of Fashion Isn’t Paris, It’s Hollywood: Emanuele Coccia
Clothes are like homes according to philosopher Emanuele Coccia. Shane Anderson spoke to the philosopher and close collaborator of Alessandro Michele about the intersections of democracy and fashion and why fashion can reimagine time better than any other medium.
By SHANE ANDERSON
The Body as Sculpture: Viviane Sassen
Viviane Sassen has spent decades studying the body, but not anatomically. Following her exhibition at Fotografiska Berlin, Max Rossi sat down with Sassen to discuss the link between the physical and the subconscious, balancing art and commercial work, and the limits of traditional photography.
By MAX ROSSI
Not Greedy for Money, but for Thrills: DAVID HOCKNEY
In the 032c archive, we highlight the best pieces from over 25 years of printmaking. This print feature with artist David Hockney written by Sven Michaelsen was originally published in 032c Winter 2020/21 Issue #38.
By SVEN MICHAELSEN
R.B. KITAJ and DAVID HOCKNEY: Collage of a Lifelong Friendship
On the occasion of David Hockney's largest exhibition to date, which opened yesterday at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, we're publishing this feature of him about his work and his lifelong friendship with the late R.B. Kitaj.
By ECKHART GILLEN
Ferrari Modena
In the 032c archive, we highlight the best pieces from over 20 years of printmaking. This print feature with Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna written by Ulf Poschardt was originally published in 032c Issue #46.
By ULF POSCHARDT
Société de 032c Bar Night: Berliner Festspiele Edition
Last Thursday, we hosted the first 2025 edition of our 032c Bar Night on the occasion of the Berliner 032c Festspiele. With tunes by Superstar DJ Killing, we celebrated a day of shopping at our annual sample sale down the road from Kranzler Eck. See evidence below.
Tohji: The Step Forward is Zero
What began in Tokyo’s DIY corners with glitchy SoundCloud drops and raw demos grew into a movement with its own codes, sound, and sense of possibility. In a new interview with Noa Cid Blanco, Tohji discusses the evolution of Japanese music, his new project "zero-one," and why making music is selfish.
By NOA CID BLANCO
