In Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Stalker (1979) a man risks his freedom in a post-apocalyptic dystopia leading a writer and a professor to an unnamed place. Shrouded in governmental secrecy and prefaced by an unspecified past, the place is simply referred to as the “The Zone.” It contains another place within it alleged to fulfill any worldly desire: “The Room.” In this shoot featuring Zalando Streetwear, VIKTOR NAUMOVSKI captures the human navigation of these unspecified industrial spaces and potential for warmth within their structure. 

Joerg Koch / 032c is pleased to announce the launch of 032c Gallery in Berlin—032c’s new permanent art gallery in Berlin with a semi-traditional gallery model, annual program, and rotating exhibitions of which Claire Koron Elat and Shelly Reich will be Artistic Directors.

“Every single moment of meeting and parting in my life is my inspiration". In a global industry of polished-to-perfection pop idols, SAAY sees her music not as a neatly packaged product, but as life spilling over into sound. 032c joined SAAY for a week in Seoul ahead of her performance at Frieze Music.

The diction of “girl,” over “woman,” is one that SHUSHU/TONG has been explicit about since their founding. In conversation with AGNES MAGGIE SHU, the duo speak on designing womenswear with a male gaze, logomania, and “coquette” joining the trend cycle.

Following an illustrious career that includes setting up a techno university and designing runway tracks for Prada, RICHIE HAWTIN talks to SHANE ANDERSON about scoring for Centre Pompidou, losing a sense of futurism, and coming from the school of James Turrell, Mark Rothko, and Anish Kapoor.

Carnage and conversation, as per. The newly-minted monthly edition of the Société de 032c Bar Night is back at Kranzler X.

Across the course of his career, MIKE KELLEY has reinvented himself not one, not two, but four times; each iteration characterized by an interest in social reality in its entirety. Ahead of his first retrospective exhibition curated by FALK WOLF, SHANE ANDERSON touches base on the artist’s conspiracy theories, subversions of masculinity, and being one of the last non-digital artists.

Artist Azize Ferizi and writer Eleonora Milani met in DMs. Here they discuss the transition from painting to sculpture, the relevance of a palette, and the artist’s deep connection to fashion.

R.I.P. GERMAIN unpicks and analyzes hyper-objects of Black culture, their complex logic of cultural gatekeeping, and the (mis)perception of these dynamics in a wider (white) world. In this interview, the artist reflects on notions of survival and success in a world obsessed with both spectacle and substance.

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, who passed away in 1987, we’re republishing our 2019 dossier on the novelists, consisting of a conversation between him and Fritz J. Raddatz, Hilton Als on Baldwin’s body, Baldwin’s provencal home, and a text by Theaster Gates on the writer.