Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Thursday, May 14, 2013.
‘Conceptual Tendencies’ is a series of exhibition started in 2011 and was conceived with the intention of bringing together a representative group of artworks from the Daimler Art Collection. The previous stage of the project was discussing issues under the heading…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 07, 2013.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) opened their two-year research study ‘The Anthropocene Project’ in January of this year. The project proposes the Anthropocene–the ‘age of mankind’–as our current geological epoch, in which it is now widely believed that humanity forms nature. The Anthropocene model suggests that the Earth’s current geo-processes are primarily…[read on…]
Interview by Lori Zimmer – in Berlin; Thursday, May 02, 2013.
I first fell in love with Jud Bergeron’s work when he was making Cubist-like sculptures. They at once reminded me of Boccioni, Picasso, and Giacometti–not as a copycat, but as an addition to their school of thought. I loved their multifaceted, kaleidoscopic surfaces, but also that they came in candy colors like baby blue, which, to me, anchored them in…[read on…]
Article by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Tuesday, Apr. 30, 2013.
Gallery Weekend Berlin came and went, and with it the pushing through the crowds, the vague art historical references in attempts to impress your not so artsy friends, and debating whether or not to pick up that hundredth press release. But its concept remains: one weekend when galleries plan to have their biggest, most diverse crowd, and thus bring their very best of…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Tuesday, April. 23, 2013.
New York born and now Berlin based curator Max Schreier has put together an exhibition at Import Projects that examines through nine international artists the ability of the internet to produce both comfort and anxiety in our personal lives…[read on…]
Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013.
A lot of cities in the world show a large degree of urban layering. Some others, having been destroyed and rebuilt, conserve less of this structural organization perhaps modelled over centuries. In cities where ancient and… [read on…]
Article by Axel Andersson – in Berlin; Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2013.
Before television sets became thin, digital and sterile they were chunky (and strangely anthropomorphic) because they needed to host a large cathode ray tube (CRT). At the base of this tube, furthest from the viewer, was one or more ‘guns’ firing electrons (in colour TV one each for red, green and blue) through a vacuum that would eventually land on a…[read on…]
Article by Don Burmeister in New York; Friday, April 12, 2013.
Thomas Ruff is one of the handful of art world superstars who emerged in the 1990’s from the Düsseldorf school of photography centered around Hilda and Bernd Becher…[read on…]
Article by Axel Andersson – in Berlin; Thursday, April. 04, 2013.
The Norwegian artist Fredrik Værslev invites the spectator to look, and then look again with seven works at Circus gallery. There is a wealth of references superimposed on what, for being both paintings and sculptures, are painstakingly minimalist objects. Ostensibly the subject matter is the landscape and Værslev returns to this depleted genre in order to imbue it with new meaning. The works all consist of frosted…[read on…]
‘System und Sinnlichkeit,’ the contemporary drawing show at Kupferstichkabinett, features eighty works by ten artists. The majority of the works are non-figurative with unifying themes of grids, cell structures, chaos, models for imagined worlds and the material as subject…[read on…]
Article by Ngan Le – in Berlin; Thursday, Mar. 28, 2013.
NY Media and Performance artist Barbara Rosenthal wound up her February European tour in Berlin with three shows in Neukölln — video at the Boddinale, and video and photography at Studio-Baustelle — her twelfth exhibition in Berlin since 2008. An increasingly younger public has grown…[read on…]
Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2013.
TANAS is a space for contemporary Turkish art, that present itself as a connecting platform between artists and an international audience. Collaborating with Turkish cultural actors, TANAS follows and presents the rapid development in the Turkish cultural scene of the last two decades. This is…[read on…]
