Article by Ursula Ströbele in Berlin // Apr. 25, 2017
Over the last few years, there’s been an increased interest in fabrics as material in art. Berlin-based artist Anja Schwörer has been working with textiles for more than 15 years, exploring the limits of…[read on]
Article by Mitch Speed in Berlin // Apr. 21, 2017
Searching for the attitude of Liz Magor’s work, the word “terse” clings obstinately to mind. I know it isn’t quite right. Unambiguously, her sculptures also radiate the most approachable and relatable kind of…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Apr. 17, 2017
Isaac Penn is a fibre artist, textile designer and clothier originally from Canada but now based in Berlin. Penn’s pixelated weaves slow down time. Penn uses an array of images, all familiar in our daily visual…[read on]
Video by MONA productions // Apr. 26, 2017
Tracing one minute in every year of filmmaker Jonas Mekas’ life, Douglas Gordon’s memoir-style film ‘I Had Nowhere to Go’ begins with a story of the first image Mekas ever made, in his native Lithuania…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Apr. 14, 2017
Hans Op de Beeck’s expansive practice has been likened to interior or set design, as it draws from typologies of architectural modelling and scenography. Often, the Belgian artist creates spatial mock-ups in a…[read on]
Article by Claudia Grigg Edo in Berlin // Apr. 12, 2017
Egill Sæbjörnsson is a Berlin-based, Icelandic visual and performance artist. He graduated from the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts (now the Icelandic Academy of the Arts) in 1997 and studied at the University of Paris…[read on]
Article by Stephanie von Behr in Berlin // Apr. 10, 2017
Deville Cohen’s video, sculpture and performance works visualize an attempt to understand one’s immediate reality through metaphorical environments that undulate between function and fantasy. They reveal the confusion…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Apr. 03, 2017
Never have I felt more of a wariness of Übermensch masculine worship before moving to Berlin. ‘Gay mecca’ it may be, but one whose chosen people seem only to look like the men illustrated by Touko Laaksonen,…[read on]
Article by Candice Nembhard in Berlin // Mar. 31, 2017
Almost eighty years after its disappearance, the whereabouts of ‘Der Turm der Blauen Pferde’ (The Tower of the Blue Horses) by German Expressionist Franz Marc is still largely…[read on]
Article by Göksu Kunak in Berlin // Mar. 27, 2017
“Yes to redefining virtuosity; Yes to conceptualizing experience, affects, sensation; Yes to materiality/body practice; Yes to investment of performer and spectator”, writes choreographer…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Mar. 21, 2017
Lena Henke’s contemporary sculptures solicit masculine compositions from Brutalism to Surrealism to Freudian theory. Yet Henke floods, drowns and ignites a fierce femininity in…[read on]
Article by William Kherbek in Berlin // Mar. 17, 2017
The interaction of history, myth and fantasy have long been key subjects in the filmic practice of artist Louis Henderson. His film, ‘The Sea is History’ (2016), taking its title from a poem by the British-St. Lucian Nobel laureate…[read on]
