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“Rafmögnuð Náttúra” – MARCOS ZOTES installation at Reykjavik Winter Lights Festival

Marcos Zotes - "Rafmognud Nattura" | Photo-by Jon Oskar Hauksson

Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, May 16, 2012.

Marcos Zotes, an architect from Madrid who is currently based in New York, presented his project “Rafmögnuð Náttúra” in Reykjavik as the main event for the city’s Winter Lights Festival in February of this year. The facade of the iconic Hallgrímskirkja church was the site of this award-winning temporary installation.
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Embrace “the C word” – Melanie Jame Walsh’s Lack of Limits at the Month of Performance Art Berlin

"The C word" - KuLe Gallery

Blog post by Elizabeth Feder – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 15, 2012.

Join Melanie Jame Walsh (Triage Live Art Collective/Savage Amusement) tonight as she explores “the C word” at KuLe Gallery. Ms. Walsh has landed back in Berlin from her native Australia after beasting over 100 performances in two months. Good thing she just got back in time to grab Berlin’s Month of Performance Art by the horns. And we’re being quite literal: she just got off the plane. [read on…]


Presume – Exhibition of the winners of the Mart Stam-Award 2011

Isabelle Dechamps

Blog post by Anna Smith – in Berlin; Saturday, May 12, 2012.

The five students from the Weißensee Art School (Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee) who won the Mart Stam Förderpreis 2011 are now exhibiting in Bethanien under the curatorial directions of Prof. Dr. Kornelia von Berswordt-Wallrabe. Their works, various and refreshingly well made, seem to have been thoroughly thought out during the making process, an element that is often missing [read on…]


“The Density of Light” – GABRIEL DAWE at Gallery Lot 10, Brussels

Plexus 14 - Installation (detail) (2012); Photo courtesy of Lot 10 Gallery, Credit: MK

Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

Gabriel Dawe’s debut solo exhibit in the Benelux, showing at Gallery Lot 10 (Brussels), explores traditional materials and textiles in a series of intricate and complex woven floor-to-ceiling installations, designed to produce the dazzling effects of ‘manufactured rainbows’ when lit from above.
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FIFTY / FIFTY: Melissa Fisher & Teresa Aversa at SlaM

Teresa Aversa

Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

The space at Sur la Montagne (SlaM) Gallery on Torstrasse is split down the middle, with the work of Toronto-based artists Melissa Fisher and Teresa Aversa exhibited on either side. Aversa’s ‘Untitled (Flower Portraits) – an ongoing series of photos of fake flower bouquets, taken in cemeteries around Toronto and developed at Walmart – cover the walls adjacent to the gallery entrance. [read on…]


Zirkel at Mexican Embassy in Berlin

Zirkel 2012

Blog post by Elizabeth Delfs – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

The Spanish word for Zirkel, compass, brings together the concepts of measuring and anchoring, as well as of locating. The concept of the body as compass inspires a collaboration between artists Vanessa Enriquez and Ilya Noé who seek to use the full extent of their bodies through the shared artistic practice of drawing. [read on…]


Open Call for Speed Portfolio Viewing

2. Portfolio Viewing at L40
by Anna Russ // May 4, 2012
On Sunday, May 20 from 1–4:30pm bpigs will present the third edition of Speed Portfolio Viewing at Verein für Kunst und Kultur am Rosa Luxemburg Platz in the L40 building…[read on]