Article by Isabelle Hore-Thorburn // Nov. 13, 2018
Vitrine Rafraîchirée is Nairy Baghramian’s third solo show at Galerie Buchholz. The exhibition continues the artist’s questioning of the role of the viewer in institutional critique, the formal…[read on]
Article by Isabelle Hore-Thorburn // Nov. 09, 2018
Bridle has gathered artists to “critically engage with the most technologically complex and politically pressing issues of our times.” These artists invoke the mystical and magical…[read on]
Article by Chiara Marchini // Oct. 19, 2018
‘Geographies of Imagination’ at Savvy Contemporary starts with a long underground corridor leading to the main exhibition space at silent green, the former crematorium that now houses the gallery in Berlin…[read on]
Interview by Romily Alice Walden // Oct. 12, 2018
When living in a production-oriented society that prioritises profit over quality of life, taking the time to care for our communities is a disruptive act. This disruption is the focus of the work of Feminist…[read on]
Interview by Brit Seaton // Oct. 09, 2018
Most of us probably haven’t asked our neighbour for a cup of sugar, let alone asked them what they’d do with a cash sum of £100. In September 2017, the latter request floated through the letterboxes…[read on]
Article by Isabelle Hore-Thorburn // Oct. 05, 2018
A rose-pink chainlink curtain demarcates the entrance to ‘Touch’ at nGbK. Walking through the threshold of the exhibition, I touch and am touched by Ruth Buchanan’s work, Split, Splits, Splitting…[read on]
Interview by Benjamin Marvin // Oct. 02, 2018
If repression has become the fundamental link between power, knowledge and sexuality we cannot cure ourselves of it without an examination of the ways mental illness and invisible disease operate…[read on]
Article by Isabelle Hore-Thorburn // Sept. 28, 2018
‘Bitter Things: Narratives and Memories of Transnational Families’ at Archive Kabinett examines the significance of things and objects for families separated by the global care chain…[read on]
Article by April Dell // Sept. 27, 2018
Imagine the artist as a messenger. They transmit, decode, untangle and entangle the data feed of the everyday through familiar and unfamiliar means. ‘Strange Messengers’, the current group…[read on]
Interview by Penny Rafferty // Sept. 21, 2018
Ben Elliot treads a fine-line between vacuous consumerism and crushingly emotional terrains. At first glance, you may write this Parisian off as an influencer, party-boy or even a troll, but his soft, off-the-cuff quips…[read on]
Interview by Isabelle Hore-Thorburn // Sept. 18, 2018
Art historians have long drawn upon the rich symbolism and allegorical potential of food in art. From Cézanne’s Still Life with Onions and a Bottle to Jana Sterbak’s Vanitas, Flesh Dress for An Albino…[read on]
Article by Isabelle Hore-Thorburn // Sept. 12, 2018
Julian Charrière is the 2018 recipient of the GASAG Art Prize. His career to date articulates the award’s focus on the intertwining of art, technology and science. Since studying under Olafur Eliasson at the…[read on]