In anticipation of the opening this Thursday of art berlin contemporary, we interviewed the director, Maike Cruse. Formerly the press secretary for Kunst-Werke and later Art Basel, Cruse came to abc last year where she continued to expand upon its ‘not-quite-an-art-fair’ format and grow…[read on…]
Article by Jazmina Figueroa – in Berlin; Friday, Sep. 13, 2013.
Modern utopian structures depend on technological developments to get closer to a perceived notion of the ideal society. In futuristic examples of a utopia, society is united by the idea of progress through technological advancement. In the current exhibition new atlantis at km temporaer the artists highlight specific technologies that originate from utopian…[read on…]
Article by Jazmina Figueroa – in Berlin; Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2013.
The most recent exhibition at Tanya Leighton Gallery, A Day Before This Place, explores concepts relating to urban frameworks, collective conduct in relation to virtual or real spaces, and the myriad ways urbanism can influence behaviour. The artists presented revisit architectural components…[read on…]
Interview by Marta Jecu in Berlin // Sep. 03, 2013
Recently divulged, the press release of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennial titled Close, Closer, makes foremost a visual statement, three paper clippings…[read on…]
Interview by Sarah Gretsch and Anna Russ – in Berlin; Monday, Aug. 19, 2013.
Situated on Potsdamer Straße among galleries like Krome and Thomas Fischer is the bright, young face of LSD Galerie. But LSD is not like its nearby counterparts; it marks the beginning of a growing trend in galleries adopting artist-run…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013.
In the sunny neighborhood of Prenzlauerberg, among the traditional European pale stucco apartment buildings that line the street is a strange, squat wooden bunker-like building with a bright red door. This is REH Kunst, which stands for…[read on…]
Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Wednesday, Aug. 07, 2013.
If there is a dominant mode in photography nowadays, it is perhaps documentary photography. Even though it might sound obvious, a photograph is potentially always a document, but its reality should not be taken for granted. Until the 1970s, photojournalism was the primary mode of documentary photography. In the last decades, we…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Thursday, Aug. 01, 2013.
On Saturday, Jul 20th 2013, the faintly neoclassical garden of the Schinkel Pavillon was filled with people drinking to the closing of Jeremy Shaw’s exhibition Variation FQ. The setting could not have more suitable: the contrast…[read on…]
Article by Alexandra Borras – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jul. 23, 2013.
The opening at Institut für Raumexperimente presented a series of experiments by students who have participated in the last semester of Professor Olafur Eliasson´s class. The institute has a purpose to re-invent the educational strategies of art studies. Supported by the Einstein Foundation Berlin and affiliated with…[read on…]
Article by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Friday, Jul. 19, 2013.
PAPER, the current show at the Saatchi Gallery in London, adds its name to the slue of shows taking thematic cue from materiality (On Paper at Galerie Eigen + Art and Works on Paper at Momentum were two openings just within the last month in Berlin). Beyond names alluding to material…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jul. 16, 2013.
The title of the exhibition reads as a provocation. “Unlike the present influx of international hipster dilettantes,” it seems to say, “we ‘original Berliners’ were serious about life, politics, and artistic collaboration.” When passive-aggressive anger is regularly surfacing over the ‘tourist problem’ in Berlin, the exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien offers one version of who these ‘authentic Berliners’ are and where their resentment…[read on…]
Article by Rebecca Partridge – in Berlin; Sunday, Jul. 14, 2013.
If any one was doubting the velocity of the current wave of ‘outsider art’ (visible at documenta, at the Biennale in Venice and currently occupying London’s Hayward Gallery) this extensive retrospective of a prolific life’s work, ‘Hilma af Klint, a Pioneer of Abstraction,’, is confirmation that the outside is now well…[read on…]
