Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 20, 2014.
On Sunday at the Month of Performance Art hub Ding Dong Dom, For the Love of Food presented artists, chefs, and eaters with an opportunity to relax and dine, while also exploring possibilities of the performative and personal aspects of cooking and enjoying food. [read on…]
Blog entry by Graham Haught in Berlin; Tuesday, May 20, 2014.
Gegen Festival of Light took place on May 2 at Kit Kat Club. A torrent of shirtless men and skinny women with bleached hair gathered around the swimming pool, waiting with cigarettes and drinks until they felt ready to dance….[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 13, 2014.
Chimera-Project, a gallery based in Budapest, is pairing up with the online art portfolio sharing platform, Works.io, for a international contemporary art competition open to artists under the age of 40. The Chimera Art Award seeks artists with no limitations on media, production year, or size. …[read on…]
Article by AJ Kiyoizumi in Berlin // Friday, May 08, 2014
Berlin’s Opernwerkstätten – the enormous space of former Opera workshops here in Berlin — has been taken over by three floors of art installations all sponsored by Olympus Photography…[read on…]
Blog post by Anne van Leeuwen – in Berlin; Friday, May 9, 2014.
You can’t rely on the joke as the only mode of social relation! exhibits the work of Berlin-based, Canadian artist Alexi Kukuljevic. Kunsthalle Leipzig is an exhibition space founded by Jeff Weber in 2014….[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Thursday, May. 8, 2014.
In Nothing Less than Literal: Architecture after Minimalism, author Mark Linder argues that the minimalist art tradition of the 1960s was largely informed by architectural qualities, concepts, and techniques of representation…[read on…]
Interview by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 06, 2014.
Artist Georgia Russell has made her name in the niche of book art. Her meticulous handiwork with a scalpel and old tomes is awe-inspiring both in its effort and aesthetic. Through the process of, in some sense, destroying a book, she creates, reconstructs, and enlivens pages into creature-like objects. The Scottish artist uses her skill to make stories and histories relevant again…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 6, 2014.
The physicality of Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot‘s performances makes you squirm. The intense panting, flopping, slapping, and movements not even thought controllable or possible, ebb and flow. The duo’s performance at Hebbel am Ufer, is maybe, began almost as scenes of a domestic dispute in slow motion, with sluggish punches and shoves in the fashion of capoeira…[read on…]
Blog entry by Graham Haught in Berlin; Saturday, May 3, 2014.
There was a clear reason why I went to Lido in Kruezberg last Wednesday, April 23rd. Potentially it was the same reason everyone was there, swirling through doors with glasses of beer and cigarettes poking through long hair, draping down shirtless backs…[read on…]
Blog post by Linus Ignatius – in Berlin; Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2014.
I am at Ufer Studios for the Crossover Projekt, a dance series curated by Isabel Gotzkowsky. Her mission is to pair young dancers in search of experience with eminent choreographers from all over Europe…[read on…]
Blog entry by Graham Haught in Berlin; Monday, Apr. 28, 2014.
Near Hermanplatz there is a place like no other in Berlin: La Ultima Cena. It’s a cold Mexican street café hued in a dark, industrial atmosphere that leaves you to wonder, perhaps feeling a bit displaced in a way that makes you think… [read on…]