For those who visited Nasan Tur’s recent solo show at Blain|Southern, ‘Funktionieren’, it would be easy to think that you have already been privy to the inner-workings of the artist’s studio…[read on]
Article by Mitch Speed in Berlin // Feb. 20, 2017
Of all the heart-wrenching scenes I’ve witnessed in two years commuting between New Jersey and New York city, one of the saddest was that of two Donald Trump supporters demonstrating outside the tycoon’s…[read on]
Article by William Kherbek in Berlin // Feb. 11, 2017
“We like to put words on things”, Heather Phillipson says in her video ‘put the goat in the boat’. We like putting words on things, it’s true, but as Phillipson’s works suggest, things might not feel so warmly about…[read on]
Article by Nina Prader in Berlin // Feb. 10, 2017
It’s almost a joke: a storage unit as collector’s item. In this case, a two-story ‘Innovative Solution’s Space’ container houses an all-American polling station, set in a primary school. Swiss artist Christoph Büchel’s…[read on]
Article by Marta Jecu in Lisbon // Feb. 07, 2017
The idea of a potent architecture (a box that not only contains, but also generates solutions) has been a favored utopia across the ages: a house that is mobile, turns into a vehicle and flies…[read on]
Article by Lisa Birch in Berlin // Feb. 07, 2017
New Haus der Elektronischen Künste (HeK) is presenting it’s innovative exhibition ‘The Unframed World: Virtual Reality as artistic medium’ until the 3. March 2017. The Basel-based foundation is…[read on]
Article by April Dell in Berlin // Feb. 03, 2017
For a brief week in October last year, visitors to SomoS Art House in Kreuzberg were treated to a twelve minute glimpse into a playful and sensual dreamscape free from inhibitions and the spatial…[read on]
Article by Candice Nembhard in Berlin // Feb. 02, 2017
‘Through You’ is an experimental project, debuting at Sundance Film Festival, in which the virtual collides with the real. Filmmaker and dancer Lily Baldwin teamed with writer and director Saschka…[read on]
Article by Brit Seaton in Liverpool // Jan. 31, 2017
In her three-act-play installation ‘Sprung a Leak’, Cécile B. Evans provides a physical space of intertwined human and artificial intelligence…[read on]
Article by Liam Casey in Los Angeles // Jan. 27, 2017
With European gallerists continually recognizing Los Angeles as an international and lucrative destination for contemporary art, it makes sense that the Sprüth Magers gallery, originally hailing…[read on]
Article by Candice Nembhard in Berlin // Jan. 24, 2017
As part of the ‘Utopian Realities—100 Years of Now with Alexandra Kollontal’ Festival, HAU 2 (Hebbel am Ufer) presents a seven object installation by the media artist ::vtol::, alias for the…[read on]
Article by Romily Alice In London // Jan. 20, 2017
Erin Riley’s work is a perpetual fusing of the virtual and the real. Marrying modern concepts with traditional technique, Riley weaves our online lives into large-scale tapestries, asking questions about the value of labour…[read on]
