Everything about this show, beginning with its banal title—since when is shipping art from Vienna some radical emissarial act?—feels lazy. Giraux’s large wall-hung cast rubber sheets mimic abstract silver-sprayed canvases. If the technique deployed in their production is unusual, their framing—literally and figuratively—strips them down to bare-bone decorative panel. Dietrich’s found cabinets, encased in painted MDF plinths, are a weak riff on Modernity’s collapse into white-cubism. The artist’s gestures are sterile, lacking even the slightest curiosity about his material. The gallery’s affected refusal to serve as the works’ context, finally, aborts this misguided mission.

Sophie Giraux, Albert Dietrich Condo: The Ambassadors
Sophie Giraux, Albert Dietrich
Condo: The Ambassadors
★☆☆☆☆
On until 14 February 2026
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