"Although Tehching Hsieh may not embrace the label of a "spiritual guide," his work has prompted me to reflect upon my own relationship with time", writes Louise des Places about the seminal Tawainese-born performace artist whose work is currently the subject of a major career survey at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

"The exhibition really does touch on a wide register of your heart strings and appears a meditation on the expiry date of forever, or rather the impermanence of time, and remnants of beauty. It's a nostalgia-inducing lovefest that is very romantic about transient and enchanting, small, but signficant everyday moments from a butterfly's view", finds Ashik Zaman, leaving touched and satisfied.

The aficionados of leading conceptual art institutions will find their taste buds and appetites properly being met with this year's exhibition at Konstakademien. The strongest rooms in the exhibition beams you away from art school realm and are an elevator ride up to group exhibitions at Haus der Kunst in Munich or Palais de Tokyo in Paris, we say, as a figure of speech.