Article by April Dell – in Berlin; Monday, Oct. 26, 2015.
Contemporary painting is often quoted as commercial, unoriginal, and irrelevant. Theorists have been claiming the death of painting since the establishment of Modernism, and shouts of its resuscitation have echoed since the 1980s. Though perhaps not leading the avant garde in recent decades, painting continues to carry weight in the collections of art institutions…[read on…]
Interview by Celia Wickham – in Berlin; Friday, Oct. 23, 2015.
Nafisa Kaptownwala is the multi-talented Toronto based founder of the inclusive modeling agency Lorde Inc, casting only models of colour as a means of fighting against the inherent racism of the fashion industry. Formed out of a frustration with the lack of diversity in fashion…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015.
Recently we had a chance to speak with Siegfried Zielinski, a celebrated professor at the University of Art (UdK) and the European Graduate School, who authored over a dozen books, and founded a new field of research – media archaeology. Zielinski is…[read on…]
Interview by Nicolas Hausdorf – in Berlin; Friday, Oct. 16, 2015.
If you encounter unknown flying objects in the airspace between Frankfurt/Oder and Belarus these days, distrust your first instincts. Aerial balloons with shiny metallic objects floating into the clouds may be neither timid surveillance attempts by a cash-strapped Russian military, the latest Nato or California-based technology giant project for the conquest of space…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Friday, Oct. 09, 2015.
Chto Delat? (What Is To Be Done?) is a collective that was formed in Russia in early 2003, responding to “an urgent need to merge political theory, art, and activism,” as the group explains. On several occasions, the collective has brought to Berlin the intensity of their politics and aesthetics. Last time…[read on…]
Article by April Dell – in Berlin; Wednesday, Oct. 07, 2015.
On the first floor of the beautiful old hospital building, Kunstquartier Bethanian, is the Momentum exhibition space, currently showing video and performance works by chinese artist Zhou Xiaohu. Titled Scheisse and with a flyer channelling bathhouse decor and seedy nightlife neon lights, the exhibition is a surprising mixture of…[read on…]
Interview by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Tuesday, Oct. 06, 2015.
Contemporary Asian art platform NON Berlin has its based in Mitte, where the growing project space brings together artists, curators, and creatives from across Asia and Europe. Through different projects, discussions, exhibitions and residencies, NON Berlin has managed to connect…[read on…]
Interview by Josie Thaddeus-Johns – in Berlin; Saturday, Oct. 03, 2015.
Flaneur is a magazine that’s not really a magazine. A collection of literary, photographic and artistic ‘fragments’, each issue focuses on a single street in a different city. How does a street become an intersection, a meeting point or physical manifestation of the stories that have happened there?…[read on…]
Article by Göksu Kunak – in Berlin; Thursday, Oct. 01, 2015.
A taxi stops in one of the big avenues of the Big Apple, you can see the day is starting to glow. A woman walks calmly to the shop window dressed in black. With her long-sleeved gloves she takes out a croissant and coffee-to-go from a white paper bag. She is chic…[read on…]
By Nora Kovacs // Sept. 30, 2015
When it was first announced that musical artist Jamie XX, visual artist Olafur Eliasson, and choreographer Wayne McGregor would be coming together to collaborate on an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s…[read on]
By Josie Thaddeus-Johns // Sept. 29, 2015
The flagship exhibition for Berlin Art Week, Stadt/Bild (Image of a City) was commissioned by the governing Mayor of Berlin and the Senate Chancellery – proof, if it was ever needed, that the city of Berlin’s interest in navel-gazing extends to the highest reaches of authority…[read on]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Monday, Sep. 28, 2015.
The space of internet and communications technologies is divided between two contradictory social experiences: one is the sense of increasing alienation and loneliness that is felt by a hyper-networked society, and the other is the genuine honesty and freedom of expression that emerges from within the safe anonymity of the internet. What Jacob Appelbaum’s exhibition…[read on…]
