Posts Tagged ‘art’

Speed Portfolio Viewing

Mar. 29, 2011
Bringing together speed dating and portfolio viewings, curators are invited to review artists’ portfolios in 10 short sessions of 20 minutes each. The day closes with…[read on]

Dahn Vo: Killing for Culture

Blog Entry by Danielle Griffin – in Berlin; Saturday, March 26, 2011.

Dahn Vo was born in Vietnam, grew up in Denmark, and is now based in Berlin. His photographs blend the everyday with the unusual, and the public with the private aspects of life.

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HABEN UND BRAUCHEN: What does art need?

Blog Entry by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Sunday, March 20, 2011.

Based in Berlin, a temporary exhibition featuring Berlin artists, has ignited a furious debate about the promotion and funding of art in the city. The exhibition is slated for a June 2011 start, and über-curators Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA, PS1), Christine Macel (Centre Pompidou) and Hans-Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery) will oversee it. An Open Call for participants was issued in October, and many artists chose to boycott it. [read on…]

SHIRIN NESHAT: I Know Something About Love

Blog Entry by Adam Roche – in Berlin; Tuesday, March 15, 2011.

Examines the theme of love through the lenses of gender, probably as established and enforced since the 1979 islamic revolution in Iran. In her two- channel video work, Fervor, 2000, Neshat seems not only to highlight the frustration and helplessness of Iranian women in this paridigm, but also to demonstrate how the negative view of love within the revolutionary culture affects the natural human feelings. [view all images…]

CHLOE PIENE: Malpertuis

Blog Entry by SP Williams – in Berlin; Monday, March 14, 2011.

“Chloe Piene touches the dimension of myth through a fascinated contemplation of the relationship between man and animal, or the existential questioning of the points where eroticism and apprehension of death meet.”

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Ultra Violet

Berlin Art Link Studio Visit with Ultra Violet
by Monica Salazar, Ester Ippolito // Feb. 22, 2011
No stranger to the limelight, Ultra Violet (born Isabelle Collin Dufresne) has been an active part of the New York art scene since her days as the pupil turned muse…[read on]