Journal


  1. Now    Brandenburg

    Last week in the woods: LED walls, smoke and a tracked camera. Three new works came out of it. More soon.

    Brandenburg, Oct ’26

  2. News    New in the Backarchive

    Fire, forget with me, Mexico City and Riyadh. Ultrasound, one night at Torstraße 15. The Abbe Number, Jenoptik's tower in Jena. Automotive Color Trends 25 and 26.


  3. Process    Back to Albisola

    Updated forms went to Albisola: the protruding parts are now more integrated, as the first connections were too filigree for porcelain. The piece is for Oltremare at the Museo Diocesano, Genoa, in November.


  4. Now    In print: Monastic Pixel Pushers

    Pushed to Oberflächlichkeiten – Die Haut der Dinge, Dieter Hofmann's farewell book as Dean of Burg Giebichenstein, Halle.

    The text is filed under Code: an ABC of the digital surface, written as source code, from anti-aliasing to zero. Read it on henrikmauler.net, in English or the German original.

    Oberflächlichkeiten – Die Haut der Dinge, Burg Giebichenstein, Halle, 2026

  5. Quote    On the big biennales

    “If there is a thing I hate it is these big art biennales. There is something about them: in their programmatic notes, to begin with, they say ‘we are all under capitalism, we are part of exploitation, Eurocentric, racist, blah blah blah.’ And then they go on, and the way Kassel and Venice function are perfect examples of pure capitalist commercialization of art. I know that stance, because I have it. It is the obsessional neurotic stance. You talk all the time, not to achieve something, but to make it true that nothing will happen.”

    Slavoj Žižek, 2023, talk with the Institute of Art and Ideas, video


  6. Now    Venice

    Back from La Biennale with something like Paris Syndrome.

    Seen from the fringes, current tendencies in art show signs of paralysis; a kind of cryo slumber, hibernating at a crossroads. One cannot escape the sense that much of the work that made the cut is Pflichterfüllung, eagerly seeking validation from the established gatekeepers of the art world.

    Engaged practice may have to look for its engagement elsewhere: anywhere but the global art circus.

    Henrik Mauler, Oct ’26, Venice, Giudecca, Zitelle station

  7. Now    Off to Venice

    To see what's been cooking at the Biennale this year. Let us know if you are there.


  8. Process    Porcelanato in Oltremare

    Sent the raw forms to Albisola, for the porcelain piece to take shape for the exhibition at the Museo Diocesano in Genoa in November.


  9. News    New website

    Published. Leave us comments at hello@zeitguised.com, please.