“Work, hard, intensive work that takes up all your brain and nerves, is the greatest pleasure in life”—or so Rosa Luxemburg would have us believe…[read on]
Paintings and collages by the Munich-born artist Thomas Eggerer that are presently on view at Capitain Petzel bracket the rich history of the site…[read on]
The 15th Dakar Biennale, ‘The Wake,’ takes place in the Ancien Palais de Justice near the west-most point of the continent. Completed just prior to French decolonization in 1958…[read on]
From fables to art historical allegories, Sophie Reinhold’s sources of inspiration are eclectic and often informed by the semiotics of power. Formal parallels between Reinhold’s work…[read on]
In thinking about what makes something—or someone—alien, the question of perspective is central. The differentiation between “native” and “alien” ultimately concerns the side of the line on which one falls…[read on]
What stands out across the Sigmar Polke retrospective currently on view at Schinkel Pavillon is the artist’s entrenched relationship to the times he lived through…[read on]
For a show that purports to question the hierarchy of sight over the other senses, the first room of ‘AFTER IMAGES’ contains lots of things to look at. Hanging sheets of light-sensitive…[read on]
It was late evening, and it felt strange to be wandering through an office space: echoes of keyboard taps and distant smells of Tupperware lunches, small illusions of the hours…[read on]
The ten square canvasses by German artist Matthias Groebel, currently on view at Schiefe Zähne, although unambiguously dated between 1987 and 1990, appear to inhabit…[read on]
Frieze London returned to The Regent’s Park earlier this week for its 21st edition, featuring over 160 galleries from 43 countries and unvealing a new redesign…[read on]
In a darkened lower gallery of the Nasher Sculpture Center, a purpose-built ramp leads visitors to the edge of an architectural kaleidoscope. Inside, painted foam creatures…[read on]
Aleksandra Domanović’s first survey exhibition, which inaugurated a new season at Kunsthalle Wien under the artistic direction of Michelle Cotton, presents over 40 artworks…[read on]
