Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 24, 2013.
Last week marked the triple launch of a new art book publisher, an artist’s monograph, and the premiere performance of a musical composition. At the centre of all this was Israeli artist Amir Fattal…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Wednesday, Apr. 23, 2014.
As a part of the 48h Neukölln Festival, Studio Chérie is holding a photography competition, specifically for photos inspired by the theme of “courage” and with an emphasis in conceptual photography. There will be ten winners announced, with the first prize winner receiving a weekend shoot at Studio Chérie. Other winners will be a part of an exhibition at the photography studio and project space for the festival, happening June 27-29th. …[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, Apr. 22, 2014.
Computers and technology have obviously become more accessible than its original creators and proponents could have imagined. The reach of technology is important to LEAP’s newest show, Obsessive Sensing, with many installation pieces created using technical methods rather than traditional artistic academic skills. Each piece intrigues, from controversial lie detection software to hallucinating algorithms and neural networks. …[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Monday, Apr. 21, 2014.
Since the 1990s there has been a considerable push in art practice towards socially-engaged, participatory methods. Instead of removing art from the ‘useless’ domain of aesthetics and relocating it into praxis or politics, this year’s Hardbakka Ruins Project aims to think about art as existing in an ambiguous territory that deals with complex social concerns like political engagement, affect, inequality, class, narcissism, and social norms….[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Friday, Apr. 18, 2014.
Anri Sala‘s video art engages viewers with its soundscapes as much as its images. The music of Sala’s videos aren’t always separate soundtracks, but are often performances within the video, such as improvisation saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc‘s playing in Long Sorrow (2005), the first of Sala’s short films shown at this past Videoart at Midnight. …[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Sunday, Apr. 20, 2014.
ArchitectsParty is a series of cocktail party events in architecture studios in multiple cities, and is coming to Berlin this week for the first time. The parties are a chance for all of those in the architecture and design world to have a chance to network with design companies, architects, and architecture-lovers alike. …[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Saturday, Apr. 19, 2014.
Month of Performance Art (MPA-B) returns this May for its fourth year, this time with a new hub specially dedicated to the festival, the Ding Dong Dom – Das Theatre der Zukunft. The structure itself is described as embodying the “ephemeral nature of performance art,” as it is constructed from old windows and shipping containers by performance group Showcase Beat le Mot, architect Martin Kaltwasser, and volunteers…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Friday, Apr. 18, 2014.
A entrepreneur with a porn business is a surprising choice for the protagonist of a film, particularly one from the 1960’s. But Japanese director Shohei Imamura‘s surreal story, The Pornographers (1966) features no conventions, as the twice Palme d’Or winning director has included other characters in the film such as a woman who believes her husband to be reincarnated as a fish…[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 17, 2014.
For the first edition of our India Profiles series, we asked New Delhi-based art institution Devi Art Foundation to tell us about their ongoing exhibition Black Sun: Alchemy, Diaspora, and Heterotopia curated by Shezad Dawood and Tom Trevor, as well as the role their foundation plays in the Indian art world and beyond…[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Apr. 16, 2014
The second edition of Art Basel Hong Kong will open on May 14th, showing over 171 modern and contemporary art galleries from around the world. Over half the galleries presenting are from Asia and the Asia-Pacific region, with 24 galleries from Hong Kong alone…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2014.
Despina Stokou‘s work has been compared to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s in that they both execute colorfully layered paintings that operate at both minute and distanced viewpoints. But Stokou’s current show at Eigen + Art Lab is memorable in that viewing her painted works is like an archaeological dig through our collective knowledge of recent popular culture, and involves…[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Monday, Apr. 14, 2014.
Scandinavian art collective Luftkollektivet have taken the opportunity to launch their annual meeting on the field this year, where they are currently in the midst of creating site-specific works…[read on…]
