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…]
Article by Sarah Gretch – in Berlin; Wednesday, July 10, 2013.
In a world of hierarchies and borders, art is a way of reeling in, containing this chaos, placing symbols in objects of sensual and ideological power. As a universality of forms, art integrates perspectives in exposing, studying, and perhaps explaining this peculiar state of things…[read on…]
Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Saturday, Jul. 06, 2013.
The KSF Project Space emerged when Hannes Schroeder-Finckh and Nick Koenigsknecht turned their spacious Brunnenstrasse apartment into a project space in order to justify living there, Hannes jokes with a charismatic…[read on…]
Article by Alexandra Borras, photos by Alex Marcus – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jul. 02, 2013.
Tobias Becker returns to Berlin with a series of maps, conceptual representations of how the world might exist when breaking with convention. Until the 24th August we will have the opportunity to view his solo exhibition Eines Tages at Galerie Hunchentoot. This new project will be focused on temporality and how…[read on…]
Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Saturday, June 29, 2013.
The exhibition Domestic Utopias presented at the NGBK deals with a very articulated topic and confronts different artistic positions around the concept of dwelling and the organization of domesticity. The idea is to underline how architectural issues reflect and interpret social utopias, proposing…[read on…]
Article by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jun. 26, 2013.
As I enter the courtyard of Aqua Carré Berlin, I am greeted by the hum of dozens of voices and a jolt of vibrating windows. The source: two guys in black maneuvering a table of records spinning long, monotonous tones. Thirty-one Berlin-based artists’ works scatter the space––everything from sculpture, to painting and drawing, to photography…[read on…]
Article by Ester Ippolito – in Berlin; Friday, Jun. 21, 2013.
The white cube, both as a physical space and a concept, permeates the realm of museums and galleries. Contemporary artists have been working within the constraints of the white space for decades. Katharina Grosse’s Wunderblock, an exhibition that recently opened at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, embodies…[read on…]
Article by Pip Jones, photos by Rebecca Capp – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013.
Brand new Neukölln project space, Bootsbau may have taken its namesake from water, but directors Bárbara Fonseca and Natalia Blanco’s 48 Hours Neukölln exhibition is more interested in land. The (Un) Natural History of Plants, their 4th project, serves as an enquiry into the human preoccupation with personal plant life and…[read on…]
Interview by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Saturday, Jun. 15, 2013.
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine, directed by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach, is a journey into the work and psyche of an icon of modern art. As Bourgeois’ works are nostalgic, so is the film; time vacillates from…[read on…]
Article by Ally Bisshop – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jun. 12, 2013.
You don’t need to have witnessed the immolation of Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man to appreciate the grand British shamanic histories alluded to in Jeremy Deller’sEnglish Magic. But, rather than heralding any continuing tradition of mastery and conquest, Deller’s works point to the places where the idea of grandeur…[read on…]
