Interview by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Tuesday, Apr. 14, 2015.
In the mid-morning sun outside a cafe by Kottbusser Tor, we got a chance to talk to performance artists Angela Schubot and Jared Gradinger. The duo’s practice is a set of carefully choreographed works that explore…[read on…]
Article by Madeleine Morley – in Berlin; Wednesday, Apr. 8, 2015.
DEVOUR! is an exhibition spread across Berlin and Leipzig, a series of talks and screenings and art pieces that interrogate the idea of ‘social cannibalism’ in late-modernist architecture…[read on…]
Article by Nora Kovacs – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 02, 2015.
Over 50 years ago, artists Otto Piene and Heinz Mack founded Zero, an international art movement in response to the limits and constraints of post-war artistic paradigms…[read on…]
Article by A.H. McGavin – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2015.
For much of his career, German ZERO artist Adolf Luther worked to depict light free of material constraints. Luther succeeded to some degree with painting, his first medium of choice; his abstract canvases were free of perspective or clear subject matter, but were not completely communicative of light’s…[read on…]
Nora Kovacs // Mar. 28, 2015
“Rirkrit Tiravanija’s art is like a fungus”, according to art critic Jerry Saltz, “As with mold, mildew, and mushrooms, it is parasitical, lacks the artistic equivalent of true chlorophyll, grows virtually anywhere,…[read on]
Article by A.H. McGavin – in Berlin; Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2015.
Analog photography’s automatism has always offered a sense of objectivity in its portrayal of the surrounding world, and as a result it has always been valued for its perceived truthfulness. In The Ontology of the Photographic Image…[read on…]
Article by Madeleine Morley – in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 23, 2015.
The Tchoban Foundation in Mitte seems the perfect location for an exhibition of Alexander Brodsky’s work. It’s a futuristic building of white blocks engraved…[read on…]
Article by Nora Kovacs – in Berlin; Thursday, Mar. 19, 2015.
Repetition is used as a tool for perfection in nearly all fields of study, whether it be practicing an instrument, memorizing flash cards, or learning to pronounce the words of a seemingly indecipherable foreign language…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2015.
Louis Lumière‘s 1895 Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory is widely regarded as the first ever motion picture. It’s 46 seconds long and was shot in a single scene, outside of the Lumière Brothers’ factory in Lyon…[read on…]
Article by Madeleine Morley – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015.
Channa Horwitz grew up in California during the 1940s: she was the daughter of an electrician and inventor, and she studied painting at CalArts when the messy and impulsive painting style of Pollock…[read on…]
Article by A.H. McGavin – in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 16, 2015.
Fault Zone, BQ’s latest exhibition featuring work by American-born photographer Owen Gump, consists of a series of black and white photographs taken in the San Fernando Valley, just outside of Los Angeles. …[read on…]
