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Nancy Holt: Sightlines

by Monica Salazar // March 29, 2011
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]

ŽIŽEK IN BERLIN!

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…

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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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Words with Room Service: Selected Poems

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.

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IVONNE DIPPMAN: Au Revoir Ivonne

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.

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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…]

FLASH MOB: Pillow Fight

Blog Entry by Danielle Griffin – in Berlin; Saturday, March 19, 2011.

Flash mobs are a modern phenomenon that blends large-scale public events with performance art and a dash of fun! This Sunday you can take part in one at Brandenburger Tor, and be part of an attempt to make the Guinness Book of World Records for largest pillow fight. Just show up at 4 pm with yourself and a pillow and let the battle begin!