Blog Entry by Adam Roche – in Berlin; Saturday, April 30, 2011.
The opening on the15th April there was a great display of affection towards the illustrative based work of Karla Marie Bentzen, of which ended in an amazing night. As Karla Marie Bentzen’s first solo exhibition went very well, and I hope to see more of her work. The exhibition runs from April 15 until May 14 2011, at the Berlin Unlike Gallery. [view all images…]
Blog Entry by Clare Ros – in Berlin; Friday, April 29, 2011.
Last night was the opening of Temptation To Be Good, works by Mercedes Helnwein at pool gallery in Berlin. The powerfully evocative exhibition offered a beautiful start to gallery weekend. Including a number of captivating pastel portraits, and a video in which these characters come to life (with music by her brother, Ali Helnwein), the artist’s third solo-exhibition at pool gallery is a must-see.
Blog Entry by SP Williams– in Berlin; Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
Leak of Information is metallic, just like our technology-based contemporary time. With a new well-defined colorimetric using “silver, gold, steel, cooper, aluminium” as backgrounds/shadows, drawing from platforms/heart of planet earth, Fridriks is taking us deeper. Playing with colors and their own reflects, she is casting a new light on our society and its dynamics.
Blog Entry by SP Williams– in Berlin; Saturday, April 23, 2011.
Hänninen’s approach is obviously of a conceptual nature: through digital processing, color values are removed from the original color photographs of the subject, so that the-now black-and-white photographs serve as the ground for the painting’s components.
Blog Entry by Clare Ros – in Copenhagen; Friday, April 22, 2011.
Recently I visited David Hockney’s exhibition, “Me Draw on iPad” at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. Walking into this exhibition I did not expect the work to be nearly as engaging as it proved to be. The range of drawings was quite impressive from the anticipated pop-like doodles to the very detailed portraits and expressive still-life sketches…
Blog Entry by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Tuesday, April 19, 2011.
A calm atmosphere reigned: people passed bags of sunflower seeds in homage to Weiweis current installation at the Tate Modern and waved posters. The protest was attended by leading figures of the Berlin arts scene including the curator of the Ethnological museum in Dahlem, and aroused a great deal of media attention.
Blog Entry by Anastasia Loginova – in Berlin; Saturday, April 16, 2011.
The international art world’s responce to the recent imprisonment of Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei has been strong. New York City’s Guggenheim has urged local museums to create a public petition for his freedom . The glass roof top of London’s Tate Modern reads “RELEASE AI WEI WEI” clearly, even from across the river. In Berlin the artists took to the streets. On Saturday, 9th April, they gathered outside the Chinese Embassy to make tea, not war.
Blog Entry by Danielle Griffin – in Berlin; Saturday, April 16, 2011.
Once upon a time, a book in itself was a work of art. Prior to the invention of the printing press, books were produced by hand, often with intricate calligraphy and beautiful bindings. Mass production of books meant that written knowledge could become accessible to everyone, not just the elite.
Blog Entry by Clare Ros – in Copenhagen; Friday, April 15, 2011.
Last week I visited the Arken Museum outside of Copenhagen, Denmark to experience one of the latest works by Berlin-based Olafur Eliasson, “Din blinde passager (your blind passenger)“. Moving through the lengthy hall was a captivating experience as myself and other participants wandered into a fog…
Blog Entry by Chloé Richard – in Berlin; Thursday, April 14, 2011.
The brainchild of Camila Soares, Tainá Guedes and Thomas Meyer, the idea of the event is to “invite you to share with us not only our table, but also something you believe could feed our body and soul, in order to make our world a better place. Out of these donations, made by all of you, our guests, a magazine will be printed.”