Spring/summer 2025
May 13, 2025
Every creative act is the opportunity for a new beginning and a new meaning, with respect to the world that already exists. By defining new ideas and new horizons, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti thus summarized his idea of “bringing the world into the world” (“mettere al mondo il mondo”) and the potential of reinventing the world through art and action.
The Generational Issue is in this sense a generative issue, in its ability to bring the existing into the world. If every single creative act has value in itself, the sense of a community or of an entire generation of artists defines the very sense of the time we live in. But how do you define a new generation of artists? A new generational cohort is created every twenty-twenty five years with its progeny of ideas, space-time coordinates, models. Here, just three years after the first volume, The Generational Issue continues its investigation into a new generation of artists, with the aim of developing, expanding and deepening research on the most innovative figures in contemporary art, and providing a lineup as extensive, plural and indicative as possible of artists of today and tomorrow. With over fifty under-35 leading figures, the new The Generational Issue explores an extremely diverse landscape of practices and languages, defining an abecedary of key figures of a new generational front called upon to interpret the time in which today’s art is created and produced. A fundamental and progressive archive of artists, who, joining those of the previous volume, interpret themes, urges and frontiers of the emerging generation.
Protagonists of this issue
ASMA by Margot Norton; Darja Bajagić by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou; James Bantone by Olamiju Fajemisin; Clovis Bataille by Salomé Burstein; Monia Ben Hamouda by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi; Beatrice Bonino by Line Ebert; Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley by Wong Binghao; Ivan Cheng by Niccolò Gravina; Tohé Commaret by Martha Kirszenbaum; Pan Daijing by Sarah Johanna Theurer; Isaiah Davis by Whitney Mallett; Rhea Dillon by Hannah Marsh; Andro Eradze by Margot Norton; Olivia Erlanger by Christopher Alessandrini; Lenard Giller by Maya Tounta; Louise Giovanelli by Phoebe Cripps; Diego Gualandris by Sofia Gallarate; Aziz Hazara by Francesca Recchia; Caspar Heinemann by Kerstin Stakemeier; Jasmine Johnson by Laura Albert; Karla Kaplun by Juan Pablo Ramos; Doruntina Kastrati by Zeynep Öz; Ndayé Kouagou by Rita Ouédraogo; Tarek Lakhrissi by Cédric Fauq; Hannah Levy by Lola Kramer; Shuang Li by Lina Martin-Chan; Xin Liu by Yasaman Sheri; Lorenza Longhi by Caterina Avataneo; Gabriel Massan by Tamar Clarke-Brown; Reba Maybury by Hugo Bausch Belbachir; Lily McMenamy by Calla Henkel; Zayd Menk by Francesca Gavin; Maria Metsalu by Gregor Kulla; Jota Mombaça by Mateus Nunes; Nyala Moon by Eva Reign; Rasmus Myrup by Adriana Blidaru; Dala Nasser by Myriam Ben Salah; Brandon Ndife by manuel arturo abreu; Valentin Noujaïm by Negar Azimi; Josèfa Ntjam by Martha Kirszenbaum; Jack O’Brien by Giovanna Manzotti; Josiane M.H. Pozi by Cynthia Igbokwe; SAGG Napoli by Federico Sargentone; Coumba Samba by Giulia Civardi; Tschabalala Self by Shanekia McIntosh; Selma Selman by Ruba Katrib; Joshua Serafin by Jaya Jacobo; Diane Severin Nguyen by Hung Duong; Akeem Smith by Courtney Malick; Minh-Lan Tran by Guillaume Blanc-Marianne; Gray Wielebinski by Francesca Gavin; Issy Wood by Mateus Nunes; Bruno Zhu by Nick Irvin.
Editors-In-Chief: Ilaria Marotta, Andrea Baccin / Art Direction: Dan Solbach.
CURA. is available in Europe, US, Asia. Grab your copy via curamagazine.com or in your local bookshop thanks to our distributors Antenne Books and les presses du réel.
CURA. 44 launches and premieres:
Offprint London, Tate Modern, London, May 16–18, 2025 / Art Basel, Basel, June 19–22, 2025 / I Never Read, Kaserne Basel, Basel, June 18–21, 2025 / Biblioteka Art Book Fair, The Warburg Institute, London, June 20–21, 2025.
The Generational Issue is accompanied by a special soundtrack mixed for the occasion by UF1980.
