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An Interview with Ione Gamble of Polyester Zine

Interview by Celia Wickham – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jan. 05, 2015.

It is safe to say that 2015 was the year that feminist DIY culture catapulted into the mainstream cultural sphere. Whether it be the emergence of the multitude of female-fronted zines and publications such as Sister and OOMK, or…[read on…]

Science // An Interview with Clemens von Wedemeyer: Casting Objects

By Alice Bardos // Dec. 28, 2015
Clemens von Wedemeyer’s latest exhibition at the KOW entitled Cast Behind You the Bones of Your Mother is inspired by Greco-Roman mythology, but is brought to life through various new forms of technology such as…[read on]

Science // An Interview with Katie Paterson

By Alison Hugill // Dec. 23, 2015
Berlin-based, Scottish artist Katie Paterson has been collaborating with scientific research institutes and space agencies for several years, to realize complex projects that consider disciplines like…[read on]

Science // Spektrum – Art, Science, Community

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By Marc Girardot // Dec. 20, 2015
As a cosmopolitan city, Berlin is able to provide the right atmosphere for community building. Indeed, the city attracts many different people from around the world, and has impressively developed its…[read on]

Science // Notes from the Wunderkammer Olbricht

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By TL Andrews // Dec. 18, 2015
The irony that some of the biggest attractions in European museums were stolen from the rest of the world escapes most people. Fanny-packed tourists pour in to see the bust of Nefertiti in the Egyptian Museum…[read on]

Andreas Greiner

by April Dell // Dec. 14, 2015

While snow carpeted the enormous Malzfabrik complex in Tempelhof, Andreas Greiner invited Berlin Art Link into his studio space housed in…[read on]

Science // Attempting to Transcend the Politics of Science

By TL Andrews // Dec. 08, 2015
Science does not happen in a vacuum. That is the message of Robert Marc Friedman’s new play Transcendence currently running in the Berlin English Theatre. The play is a beautiful portrait of a…[read on]

Tomás Saraceno

by Alison Hugill // Dec. 3, 2015

Nearing the close of our visit to Tomás Saraceno’s studio in Rummelsburg, he offered an apt metaphor that summed up the working environment of his office…[read on]

Science // In the Land of the Blind the One Eyed Man Loses Sight

By Alice Bardos // Dec. 01, 2015
An immediate sense of a binary fragility and imposition washes over the mind when a person steps into Dittrich & Schlechtriem’s newly curator exhibition, In the Land of the Blind the One Eyed Man Loses Sight…[read on]

Susanna Hertrich

by Alison Hugill // Nov. 24, 2015

Susanna Hertrich’s artistic practice occupies a privileged position as both interpreter and active participant in the otherwise largely…[read on]

Science // Alicja Kwade Bending Objects and Minds

By April Dell // Nov. 13, 2015
In the historical mansion-turned-contemporary art gallery at Haus am Waldsee, the visually intriguing and thought provoking solo exhibition by Alicja Kwade, Monologue from the 11th Floor, is soon coming to an end. Outside in the large gallery grounds, autumn debris littering the sculpture garden is a seasonal…[read on]

INTERSECTIONS // Berlin-Bucharest Exchange: Sub-styles – DIY Art Spaces, Interdisciplinarity and Hybrids

Article by Marta Jecu – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015.

Interdisciplinarity is not just about combining methodologies, but also about the capacity to navigate around them, to handle a hybrid-situation that could give birth to a new creative medium. Looking back on the art of the 20th century’s last decades, it becomes evident that, in order to have certain micro-climates or contexts that can generate something new, there has always been a dominant situation of incompatibilities, social or political rifts, and disparities….[read on…]