Interview by Göksu Kunak – in Berlin; Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013.
In the lecture performance I Dreamed a Dream: Politics in the Age of Mass Art Production (2013), writer and artist Hito Steyerl introduces us to the new Misérables of our era, while asking the pertinent question: Why are there so many art projects today? The absurdity of funding applications, the condition of the wretched who wait to be chosen or the link between museums and firearms…[read on…]
Article by Kimberley Brown – in London; Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013.
Racy imagery, tongue-in-cheek euphemisms, feminist interpretations and breath-taking sexualistion of everyday objects in Lucas’ work, is all brought together in a stunning retrospective of her entire collection, enabling “Situation” to bring something to the table for every visitor…[read on…]
Article by Jazmina Figueroa – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013.
Inspired by the monumental artistic contributions of British director and artist Derek Jarman, The Jarman Award is an annual prize that is awarded to UK-based artists who work predominantly with film and display an experimental approach to filmmaking within their practice. The most important aspect of the Jarman Award is…[read on…]
Article by Yvette Greslé – in London; Sunday, Oct. 29, 2013.
UBERMORGEN was founded in 1995 by the artist duo lizvlx and Hans Bernhard in Vienna, Austria. The duo’s first exhibition at Carroll/Fletcher, userunfriendly, is an excellent opportunity to reflect on conceptual art practices that, since the 1990s, have explored software art, pixel painting, computer installations, net.art and digital activism (media hacking)…[read on…]
Article by Xandra Popescu – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 07, 2013.
Berlin´s work market can be a site of extraordinary speculative pessimism. Flooded with overqualified transitory workers, the work market is a perpetual source of hopelessness and exploitation. Anxiety proliferates among the young and the able. But at the same time, we are witnessing an increased preoccupation…[read on…]
Article by Marta Jecu – in Lisbon; Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.
The recently opened 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennial, Close, Closer, aims to question the borders of the discipline, open it toward immediate civic use and a reactive criticism and distill the comprehension of architecture into that of a vital spatial practice correlating to the quotidian. With its luxurious and deserted charm…[read on…]
Article by Marta Jecu – in Lisbon; Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.
Detached from a literal understanding of architecture, the triennial “Close, Closer” slides between various framings of the “living experience”. These frames – a fiction of social forms of organization as retro-futuristic living nucleuses in the exhibition “Future Perfect”, the institution understood as a fluid and adaptable hub in “The Institute Effect” exhibition, and a re-enactment of past hypostases of Lisbon’s famous Marques de Pombal’s birth palace in “The Real and other Fictions” – are all set as an agenda to extract from architecture its agency. A set of talks, performances and events are meant to put these frameworks of “living” architecture into practice
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Article by Henry Andersen – in Berlin; Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013.
A famous story about Richard Wagner tells of the premier performance of his opera Der Ring des Niblungen (sometimes called The Ring Cycle, completed 1883). As the story goes, after one of the arias an old man in the theatre, particularly moved by the singer’s performance began to clap…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013.
The brand new Charlottenburg gallery space, established by Jean-Pierre Neumeister and Barak Bar-Am in cooperation with gallerist Ché Zara Blomfield, launched its first exhibition ‘Body Building’ in early September. The name of the show is twofold, referring at once to the architectonics of the human body and the treatment of architecture as the embodiment of a vulnerable physicality…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill, photos by Stephanie Third – in Berlin; Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013.
In September, Absolut Art Bureau awarded two prestigious prizes for Art Writing and Art Work to Coco Fusco and Renata Lucas. The awards are part of a wider initiative by the Swedish vodka company to invest in contemporary art. Absolut’s Art Manager Saskia Neuman spoke to us about…[read on…]
Article by Sarah Corona – in Berlin; Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013.
As supermodels and fashion designers elbow their way to the top and high glamour swamps New York, and as spotlights illuminate the most beautiful and famous people of the world, a small gallery in Chelsea is showing an exceptional Italian artist who depicts our contemporary society and especially the fashion world from the other side of the coin…[read on…]
