FAIR ENOUGH is a podcast series by ART COLOGNE in collaboration with the journal TEXTE ZUR KUNST.
Presented by Micaela Dixon, FAIR ENOUGH brings together artists, curators, writers, and thinkers to reflect on how art and its institutions are responding to the urgencies of our present moment. This season marks the 35th anniversary of TEXTE ZUR KUNST. Here, the journal's motto for the year is taken up, there is no art without criticism. Each episode returns to a past issue of the journal to revisit the debates it sparked and to consider how those questions continue to shape the cultural and political landscape today.
In this sixth episode, Micaela Dixon speaks with curator and writer Alicja Melzacka about the intersections between poetry and exhibition-making. Together, they explore how rhythm, language, and emotional charge can shape the experience of art — and how poetic thinking can expand the curatorial field.
Melzacka reflects on her recent projects, the influence of literature on her approach to exhibitions, and the challenge of making the ephemeral legible within institutional contexts. The conversation moves between the page and the gallery, between words and images, tracing the quiet power of poetry in shaping how we see and feel.
FAIR ENOUGH is a podcast by ART COLOGNE in collaboration with TEXTE ZUR KUNST, bringing together artists, curators, writers, and thinkers to examine how art responds to the urgencies of our time.
Season 1 marks TEXTE ZUR KUNST’s 35th anniversary with the theme: There Is No Art Without Criticism.
