Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015.
At the current exhibition at Galarie Judin, the Romanian city of Cluj appears as a city of connections: the exhibition locates itself at the crossroads of multiple histories and influences through the works of eight distinct artists. Appropriately titled…[read on…]
Interview by Alena Sokhan in Berlin // Feb. 20, 2015
Filmmaking duo Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia recently screened their feature film ‘H.’ at the Berlinale. ‘H.’ is an apocalyptic narrative that follows two women named Helen, who never…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015.
The question that transmediale asks is not ‘what’ – as in, what can technologies do – but ‘how’: how are we using and being affected by technologies? I think the same question can be turned to transmediale itself, with the four days of events coming to a conclusion…[read on…]
Article by Nora Kovacs – in Berlin // Feb. 17, 2015
For this year’s Forum Expanded portion of the 65th Berlinale Film Festival, the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg opened its doors or, rather, closed them to the film installations of 16 contemporary artists with its group exhibition, “To the Sound of the Closing Door”…[read on…]
Article by Lucia Love – in New York; Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015.
Pervasive market branding of female athleticism is a recent development, which is rooted in unprecedented social and political actions of the early 1970s that allowed an active lifestyle to become a cultural possibility. Americans have Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendment, to view as a turning point for this change…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 03, 2015.
The question that transmediale asks is not ‘what’ – as in, what can technologies do – but ‘how’: how are we using and being affected by technologies? I think the same question can be turned to transmediale itself, with the four days of events coming to a conclusion…[read on…]
Interview by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Friday, Jan. 30, 2015
Canadian, Berlin-based artist Jeremy Shaw explores altered states in his considerable body of work, straddling the borders between neuroscience and what he refers to as ‘psychedelic kitsch’…[read on…]
Article by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015.
“Track sleep. Track steps. Track habits.” – So begins the promotional video for this year’s transmediale, themed “Capture All”. Intimating an invasion, collection, and configuration of basic patterns and functions, the theme initially purports a fixation on human activity and an overabundance of whichever qualities it takes to be and predict what is human…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015.
At the entrance to the UnTune exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, visitors are offered a strange array of items: alongside the usual catalogues and press releases, we get a set of yellow construction headphones and an assortment of bike lights and headlamps…[read on…]
Article by Harriet Thorpe – in London; Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015.
Pace arrived in London in 2011 with a fanfare, opening up shop in a wing of the Royal Academy of Arts at Burlington Gardens. The space, converted by architect David Chipperfield…
Article by Maria Achkar – in Berlin; Friday, Jan. 16, 2015.
For years now, Lebanon has been portrayed in the news as a land ruled by religion, war and chaos. It has been depicted numerous times as a place guided by secularism and instability. Its capital, Beirut…[read on…]
Interview by Alena Sokhan – in New York; Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015.
Artists have long criticized and resisted the commercialization of art, though few have taken such a personal and professional risk as to disengage with the art market so absolutely as Post-Minimalist painter Dale Henry…[read on…]
