In her multidisciplinary practice, the visual artist Ivonne Thein focuses on the socio-political dimensions of the human body. In our performance-oriented societies,…[read on]
Sophie Utikal’s textile work focuses on the body as a source of information. Her large tapestries depict femme bodies in various states of repose…[read on]
Curated by Peter Rehberg and Apostolos Lampropoulos, ‘Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond’ theoretically opened in 2020 at Berlin’s Schwules Museum,…[read on]
Eli Cortiñas explores industry, power, politics and memory in her collage-like works of found footage and imagery mixed with her own material…[read on]
Participation is at the core of Marinella Senatore’s work, wherein she creates group performances through a negotiation of forms and meanings with communities…[read on]
Artist and researcher Karin Bolender’s recent book, ‘The Unnaming of Aliass,’ tells the story of the writer’s enduring relationship with a donkey or, rather, an American Spotted Ass…[read on]
Semra Ertan’s family have collectively published and co-edited a bilingual book of her poetry, entitled ‘Mein Name ist Ausländer | Benim Adım Yabancı.’…[read on]
Come and gather around this fire. Matti Aikio is going to tell us a story. We are inside his lávvu, a Sámi tent. You can hear crows cawing, and when you see or hear a raven,…[read on]
The theme of transmediale’s 2021 festival, “for refusal,” set out to examine the possibilities engendered by refusal, as deviation from the prescribed, and a proposal…[read on]
A ritual highlights a given social practice and renders it symbolic on another, often spiritual, level, thereby legitimizing and expanding certain structures or, at other…[read on]
On a frigid January afternoon, I visited Lau in her newly minted studio, where we discussed her work’s relationships to death and ritual, the intersection of monstrosity…[read on]
The exhibition is a deep-dive into the ethics of mining for minerals and data, resulting in a presentation of extractivism as a whole paradigm of the human attitude…[read on]
