In Graz, Céline Condorelli and Harry Thaler have conceived the new reading room at the Grazer Kunstverein, pushing the research on the relation between art and life a step forward. In June, Domus portrayed the French artist Camille Henrot awarded with the Silver Lion at the 55th Art Venice Biennial, while at the Palace of Versailles, artist Giuseppe Penone focuses on the gardens, remaining faithful to his materials — wood, stone and marble — and to the programme that underlines the fatal limit of the work of man when it begins to become nature.

In New York, last summer, the latest and most ambitious iteration of Rain Room, a digital deluge by rAndom international invited users to control the rain, is currently on view outside of the Museum of Modern Art, in Düsseldorf the new Tomás Saraceno’s gigantic installation was a steel wire and inflated PVC spheres construction, suspended more than 25 metres above the K21 museum, and in Hackney, a temporary installation by the Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich altered the viewer’s relationship with familiar spaces.

In Istanbul Fulya Erdemci, curator of the 13th Istanbul Biennial recounted to Domus her position in between the institution, the artists and the public after Gezi Park occupation. Finally in Milan, the new Fondazione Trussardi nomadic exhibition took us into the heart of the Brera district to encounter the site-responsive work of artists Allora & Calzadilla inside the historic Palazzo Cusani.

Below are our best art stories from 2013:

Best of 2013 #arte
— Nairobi: The XYZ Show
— Stanley Kubrick: a retrospective
— Céline Condorelli: Things That Go Without Saying
— Camille Henrot: Grosse Fatigue
— Penone in Versailles
— Rain Room
— Tomás Saraceno: in orbit
— Leandro Erlich: Dalston House
— Mom, am I barbarian?
— Fault Lines