Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Oct. 06, 2017
Shag carpet fills one room at Sprüth Magers in Berlin right now, a waxy plastic is emitted from the darkness and eight ambiguous lounging foam figures recline. Waiting for your own body to slip into them, or…[read on]
Article by Ilyn Wong in Berlin // Oct. 03, 2017
I first encountered the work of Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo several years ago in New York, through a series of photographs in which women’s bodies collectively asked questions about resistance,…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Sep. 28, 2017
Throughout all the varying theories of play in the last 150-odd years, regardless of discourse or discipline, it is often described as a kind of median, an interface by which the mind dialogs with the external world…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Sep. 22, 2017
Romanian choreographer Alexandra Pirici has enacted a number of her recent sculptural additions and ongoing actions in Germany over the last year, beginning with her contribution to the 9th Berlin Biennale,…[read on]
Article by Rebecca Partridge in Berlin // Sep. 21, 2017
Taking a moment on the bench outside Hamburger Bahnhof on a sunny Saturday afternoon, I witnessed the farcical scene of an elderly man attempting to enter the museum, being barred from…[read on]
Article by Katharine Doyle in Berlin // Sep. 16, 2017
Taking our seats before the start of Miet Warlop’s ‘Dragging the Bone’ at HAU — Hebbel Am Ufer, we are confronted face-on with an arena of smoothly fashioned plaster forms. The onstage sculptural elements…[read on]
Article by Katharine Doyle in Berlin // Sep. 01, 2017
“We are not dealing with education here, this is art.” In speaking with us about the upcoming exhibition at Galerie aKonzept ‘They,’ the two curators Tal Iungman and Chantal Kirch express their desire that visitors…[read on]
Article by Berlin Art Link in Los Angeles // Aug. 30, 2017
This Spring, American artist and filmmaker Doug Aitken contributed his site-specific architectural intervention ‘Mirage’ to the group exhibition DesertX, which took place in California’s Coachella Valley…[read on]
Article by Katharine Doyle in Berlin // Aug. 11, 2017
Increasingly, artists are being called upon to represent viewpoints on climate change into their work; this artistic phenomenon champions environmental awareness on various levels, whether in its material…[read on]
Article by Sonja Hornung in Berlin // Aug. 07, 2017
Entanglements between minerals and the currents of capitalism form the subject-matter of Australian artist Nicholas Mangan’s carefully-researched survey exhibition ‘Limits to Growth’. Across the four bodies…[read on]
