Article by Madeleine Morley – in Berlin; Wednesday, Apr. 8, 2015.
DEVOUR! is an exhibition spread across Berlin and Leipzig, a series of talks and screenings and art pieces that interrogate the idea of ‘social cannibalism’ in late-modernist architecture…[read on…]
Article by Nora Kovacs – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 02, 2015.
Over 50 years ago, artists Otto Piene and Heinz Mack founded Zero, an international art movement in response to the limits and constraints of post-war artistic paradigms…[read on…]
Article by A.H. McGavin – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2015.
For much of his career, German ZERO artist Adolf Luther worked to depict light free of material constraints. Luther succeeded to some degree with painting, his first medium of choice; his abstract canvases were free of perspective or clear subject matter, but were not completely communicative of light’s…[read on…]
Nora Kovacs // Mar. 28, 2015
“Rirkrit Tiravanija’s art is like a fungus”, according to art critic Jerry Saltz, “As with mold, mildew, and mushrooms, it is parasitical, lacks the artistic equivalent of true chlorophyll, grows virtually anywhere,…[read on]
Article by A.H. McGavin – in Berlin; Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2015.
Analog photography’s automatism has always offered a sense of objectivity in its portrayal of the surrounding world, and as a result it has always been valued for its perceived truthfulness. In The Ontology of the Photographic Image…[read on…]
Article by Madeleine Morley – in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 23, 2015.
The Tchoban Foundation in Mitte seems the perfect location for an exhibition of Alexander Brodsky’s work. It’s a futuristic building of white blocks engraved…[read on…]
Article by Nora Kovacs – in Berlin; Thursday, Mar. 19, 2015.
Repetition is used as a tool for perfection in nearly all fields of study, whether it be practicing an instrument, memorizing flash cards, or learning to pronounce the words of a seemingly indecipherable foreign language…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2015.
Louis Lumière‘s 1895 Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory is widely regarded as the first ever motion picture. It’s 46 seconds long and was shot in a single scene, outside of the Lumière Brothers’ factory in Lyon…[read on…]
Article by Madeleine Morley – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015.
Channa Horwitz grew up in California during the 1940s: she was the daughter of an electrician and inventor, and she studied painting at CalArts when the messy and impulsive painting style of Pollock…[read on…]
Article by A.H. McGavin – in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 16, 2015.
Fault Zone, BQ’s latest exhibition featuring work by American-born photographer Owen Gump, consists of a series of black and white photographs taken in the San Fernando Valley, just outside of Los Angeles. …[read on…]
Article by A.H. McGavin – in Berlin; Friday, Mar. 13, 2015.
When curator Masha Mergenthaler-Shamsaei founded the Young Persian Artists collective in 2014, the Iranian contemporary art scene was booming. The global art market couldn’t — and still can’t — seem to satiate its hunger for contemporary Middle Eastern art. …[read on…]
Interview by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Friday, Mar. 13, 2015.
Performance artist Voin de Voin hails from Bulgaria with an unpredictable practice involving performance, installation, photography and film. His performance work stands out because of its endlessly exploratory aim and his at once absurd and deeply…[read on…]
