Article by Xandra Popescu – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 06, 2014.
Farid Fairuz is the pseudonym of Mihai Mihalcea, a choreographer with a taste for the bizarre and the “oriental.” I first met him a few years ago while he was the director of the National Dance Center in Bucharest. …[read on…]
Article by Hatty Nestor – in London; Wednesday, Nov. 05, 2014.
I found myself, for the fourth year running, immersed within Frieze Art Fair in Regents Park, London. It was the VIP private view, Tuesday evening, and the crowd was a vibrant array of collectors, artists, and buyers, all fighting the queues for their entry to the large marquee housing Frieze. …[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Tuesday, Nov. 04, 2014.
On one of the small side streets of Mitte, just off Auguststrasse, is an unfortunately rare sight in Europe: a contemporary art gallery founded and run by Chinese owners. Zhong Gallery‘s project manager Lu Mei explains…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014.
The winners of last year’s Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt Scholarship are exhibiting at the Projektraum Flutgraben on the bank of the canal. Goldrausch is an art institute that offers a year long post-graduate course for women…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014.
In the industrial zone by Tempelhofer Park, a converted former malt brewing factory called the Malzfabrik serves as the hive of The Forgotten Pioneer Movement, which produces an assemblage of talks, lectures, events, workshops, and exhibitions. The Forgotten Pioneer Movement evokes a fictional collective of people that grew up during…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan in Berlin // Oct. 08, 2014.
A remarkably well dressed but sweaty swarm crowded at the stairs of the “Vertigo of Reality” exhibition on Tuesday Sep. 17, displaying a notably pushy enthusiasm for an art opening. It was worth the wait: through interventions, tech gadgets, and trickery the works delivered an experience that uprooted, subverted, and…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Monday, Oct. 06, 2014.
Mariana Castillo Deball‘s current show at Hamburger Bahnhof is an inert stage play performed by a vastly heterogeneous collection of actors. Though it’s billed as a solo exhibition, her pieces are not alone…[read on…]
Article and photos by Harriet Thorpe – in London; Wednesday, Oct. 01, 2014.
Sadie Coles has been a mainstay on the London art scene since 1997. The art dealer’s headquarters occupy a former night club on Kingly street, which runs parallel between Regents Street and Carnaby Street. After the closure of her New Burlington Street space, this custom built gallery was opened in October 2013….[read on…]
Article and photos by AJ Kiyoizumi – in San Francisco; Monday, Sep. 30, 2014.
Ai Weiwei doesn’t get to see his own exhibits in person anymore. With selective enforcement and dubious claims, his passport was taken after he was under house arrest for evading taxes in Beijing. He is unable to attend openings or accept prestigious professorships, as we saw with his show at the…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Saturday, Sep. 20, 2014.
This year I tried a thought experiment: what if I came to abc – art berlin contemporary with fresh eyes, imagining I was new to Berlin and its vast and varied gallery scene? Would I think it was just another art fair? Some good, some very bad, mostly overwhelming and commercially oriented…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan in Berlin // Sept. 19, 2014
The title of the Berlin Masters Exhibition at the ARNDT Gallery refers to the Berlin M.A. Graduates from the Universität der Künste and the Kunsthochschule Berlin – Weißensee who feature in the show, as well as playfully reminding us that having finished their studies, they are now considered “Masters” in their craft…[read on…]
