Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014.
Unexpectedly projected onto the white walls of a gallery space of Société Berlin is a scene familiar to most of us: the charismatic washed out tone and upward angle of a webcam recording, a private house with a pretty girl in the frame, walking, prancing and making different …[read on…]
Article by Harriet Thorpe – in London; Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014.
Timothy Taylor Gallery is located at 15 Carlos Place, on a curving street just off Grosvenor Square in the smart Mayfair conservation area. The area is landscaped with luxury fashion boutiques and a fountain, while porters in top hats greet guests outside the neighbouring Connaught Hotel….[read on…]
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…]
