Blog Entry by Clare Ros in Berlin // April 1, 2011
Nearly a week following the opening of Cyprien Gaillard’s“The Recovery of Discovery” the central gallery at KW remains filled with the inebriated aftermath of shattered green glass, EFES puddles, and shredded blue cardboard boxes. Although the lower steps of the “Beeramid” have shifted…
Blog Entry by Elizabeth Feder // March 30, 2011
You walk in, passed the proper galleries, through the narrow corridor until everything opens in an eruption…[view all images…]
This is the first retrospective study of Nancy Holt, the visionary American artist a landmark companion book to the ‘Nancy Holt: Sightlines’ exhibition. Holt’s wide-ranging body of work…[read on]
Blog Entry by SP Williams– in Berlin; Monday, March 28, 2011.
Throughout these paintings we see erasure, ruin, and mutilation. A structure is developed then knocked down. Something rises to importance, then erased away into the field. Through this process the surfaces become mutilated.
Blog Entry by Clare Ros– in Berlin; Sunday, March 27, 2011.
‘One splits into two, two doesn’t merge into one’. The slogan made quite a stir in its day, combining the air of a purely mathematical axiom with a political mandate. Under the cloak of a universal truth there lies a political dagger. The formula combines under the same heading a mathematical adage…
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.
Blog Entry by Clare Ros– in Berlin; Friday, March 25, 2011.
The selection of poems below come from Words with Room Service, the latest collection of poetry by Melanie Sevcenko. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Sevcenko currently lives in Berlin, where she works as a freelance journalist and reporter for international publications.
Blog Entry by SP Williams– in Berlin; Thursday, March 24, 2011.
Flabby, often angry men running to, or away from friends or enemies. There’s more story outside picture boundaries and i’m dying to hear it. Born in 1981 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany, Ivonne lives and works in Tel Aviv and Berlin, Germany.
Blog Entry by Elizabeth Feder // March 23, 2011
To call this a flash mob is an understatement. The Kissenschlacht this past Sunday was an event of emergence, bringing thousands together with pillows in-hand to engage in a bigness that can only be understood as explosive and…[view all images…]
Blog Entry by Anna Russ – in Berlin; Sunday, March 20, 2011.
On Monday, March 21, 2011 Egill Sæbjörnsson & Marcia Moraes present What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There. The Icelandic artist and musician Egill Sæbjörnsson, combines elements of installation and performance, video and…[view all images…]
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…]
