Article by Sarah Corona – in New York; Tuesday, Apr. 08, 2014.
From Goethe to Octavio Paz, from James Turrell and Dan Flavin to Douglas Wheeler, they are all trying to get to one thing: light, in all its shapes and colours. Light as an object, as an architectural element. Light as a philosophical motto. Light as a…[read on…]
Article by Anna Wallace-Thompson – in London; Tuesday, Apr. 01, 2014.
A recent retrospective of the Berlin-based performance artist in London marked 13 years of performative practice by Nezaket Ekici, including a three-day live performance and installation at Pi Artworks…[read on…]
Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2014.
The current exhibition at the Bauhaus Archiv in Tiergarten, New Architecture! Modern Architecture in Images and Book, focuses on the production and display of architectural images in publication with a particular concentration on Walter Müller-Wulckow’s ingenious editorial vision…[read on…]
Article by Rebecca Loyche – in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 24, 2014.
New York City heralded the official start of the 2014 art season, as the Armory Arts Week’s 12 art fairs rose unscathed from the polar vortex hovering over most of the country…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2014
Photography has long been theorized as revelatory: its methods often produce poetic distortions that surface unbeknownst to even the photographer. The images presented in…[read on…]
Article by Graham Haught in Berlin // Friday, Mar. 07, 2014 Dorothy Iannone is an artist who has been misrepresented for a long time. Writers have chided her work as “folkloric,” parents have guarded their children from her grand gestures of eroticism, and the unsolvable riddle about Iannone resides in the cornerstone query as to whether or not she is a feminist…[read on…]
Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.
We currently exist in a highly performative time period enhanced, complexified, and rearranged by the Internet. Questions of localized identity, sexuality, and aesthetics are all thrown onto a flat neoglobalized plane of subjectivity. Yung Jake discusses the conception of Tumblr, the role of the artist as…[read on…]
Article by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 21, 2014.
The massive space of Blain|Southern isn’t an easy one to fill. The hangar-sized rooms can dwarf installations and sculpture, the white vaulted ceilings overpower. But the bursts of tailored and saturated colour in Yinka Shonibare’s solo exhibition Making Eden fill the void with their crafted energy…[read on…]
Article by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014.
The title of the newest exhibition at Johann König doesn’t relate to the work of the duo show. Both artists on display were born in 1986 but the minimalist-looking works have more in common than their creators’ ages…[read on…]
Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014.
The Akademie der Künste is currently hosting the exhibition Lens Based Sculpture, which is set to explore contemporary sculpture’s relationship and indebtedness to photography and the ways in which photography has transformed sculpture as a medium. With over 200 displayed works by more than 70 international artists, Lens Based Sculpture develops the antiquated argument over…[read on…]
Article by AJ Kiyoizumi in Berlin // Feb. 10, 2014 John Waters‘ role can’t be limited to just one descriptive word: director, actor, professor, screenwriter, artist, comedian, bad influence, etc. Nicknames such as the “pope of trash” have tried to sum up his public persona, but looking at his art might be a better way to attempt to understand him…[read on…]
Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 07, 2014.
On Wednesday January 29th, transmediale launched Art Hack Day at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Art Hack Day – curated in conjunction with L.E.A.P. – took place within the framework of a 48-hour “challenge,” wherein…[read on…]
