This June, Saint Laurent Babylone is hosting ‘Daydreaming of Him,’ a photography exhibition by French-Australian artist Christopher Barraja, curated by Anthony Vaccarello. The exhibition marks Barraja’s first major presentation at the Left Bank cultural space and offers an intimate look into a body of work shaped by memory, desire and the sun-soaked landscapes of the Mediterranean. Vaccarello has…
Highland Avenue is no stranger to a bold entrance, but at number 1128, the traditional Los Angeles art tropes are being bent into entirely new shapes. Husband-and-wife creatives Gavin and Kelley Brodin have established a dual sanctuary where industrial weight and psychological fragility sit side by side, marking a permanent home for their sculptural practices. Speaking with Schön!, the pair…
Berlin window shopping takes an unexpected turn from 27 April to 9 May as the Kaufhaus des Westens hands over its entire street-facing facade to contemporary artists. Arriving for Gallery Weekend Berlin, the exhibition titled ‘DISPLAY, PAUSE, REPEAT’ transforms ten windows along Tauentzienstraße into public installations. Curator Sebastian Hoffmann ignores the urge to push retail, treating the…
Agony + Ecstasy Gallery has announced the publication of ‘Walter Rudolph, Ibiza 1976’, a new photography book edited by the gallery’s founder, Emma Salahi. Released on 29 April 2026, the book acts as a vivid archival portal into Ibiza during the most pivotal moment in its history: on the cusp of becoming a global tourism destination. Walter Rudolph, a German-born photojournalist, spent the better…
There’s something quietly radical about showing up to a centuries-old French champagne house with salvaged timber and no fixed plan. But that is, in essence, how Tadashi Kawamata has always worked and why Maison Ruinart came looking for him. The Japanese artist, born in Hokkaidō in 1953 and now splitting his time between Tokyo and Paris, has spent decades placing his structures in the spaces…
Freedom wears many masks, but for women perhaps none feels as instinctive, or as poetic, as the bird, that creature suspended between earth and sky, always half in motion, always just beyond reach. It was already clear in Nelly Furtado’s 2000 hit song, ‘I’m Like a Bird,’ and now in Mariel Méndez’s latest collection that same idea finds a new visual life, where women and birds seem to mirror one…
American model turned self-taught artist Sophia Huitema moves fluidly between fashion and fine art, crafting a distinct visual world shaped by haze, mystery and intrigue. Her first solo exhibition with Harper’s art gallery in New York, titled ‘Prussian Blue’, encompasses seven oil paintings, all of which feature the Prussian Blue pigment. Through using solely blues and greens, she creates a world…
In a discreet courtyard in the centre of Paris, behind closed doors and under the eye of a watchful guardian, a small team of conservation specialists work diligently on preserving the archives of one of Paris’ most prestigious fashion houses. On a crisp winter morning, Perrine Scherrer, Director of Dior Heritage, welcomes Schön! alive into the climate-controlled rooms, with walls clad in…
Known for her meaningful and sustainable luxury backgammon boards, Alexandra Llewellyn’s work is made even more compelling by the stories that have shaped her brand. Alexandra Llewellyn is no stranger to rolling the dice – both physically and metaphorically. When we speak, she’s still riding the high of hosting a women’s poker night the evening before. She apologises for her exhaustion, laughing,…
Sebastian Copeland lives between land, sea and ice, but he grew up surrounded by lights, cameras and music. His French father was a prominent composer, and his English mother a leading producer for commercial agencies. After a stint as a child actor, Copeland went on to become a production/camera assistant for Tony and Ridley Scott, amongst others. He graduated from UCLA’s film school with a…
When Hal Fischer arrived in San Francisco in 1975, one thing immediately caught his attention. “There were people all over the streets hanging out in the middle of the day,” Fischer remembers, “I thought: don’t these people work?” At the time, living was cheap, rents were affordable, jobs paid well enough, and so people didn’t have to work full-time jobs. That, coupled with San Francisco’s…
What does the lethal exoskeleton of a cinematic predator have in common with the stiff, slightly uncomfortable posture of a local politician? For Mexican painter Emiliano Mondragón, the intersection of the monstrous and the mundane is where the most honest version of the human condition resides. As the Hamburg-based artist prepares for the Annual Exhibition of the HFBK, running from 12 February…