Article by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Friday, Mar. 22, 2013.
Last Sunday the Berlinische Galerie awarded its Fred Thieler Prize for painting to Sergej Jensen. At first glance Jensen’s minimalist painting technique streaked across enormous canvas married with pieces of fiber or thick blotches of paint feels a little too familiar. Take Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman or Anselm Kiefer just to name a few. Perhaps this familiarity is exactly why he won. After all…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2013.
With a playful oeuvre of phallic forms, abstract shapes and womb-like structures, Neto has earned his reputation as a hedonistic artist who encourages the spectator to take pleasure in life, lust and nature…[read on…]
Article by Sarah Gretsch, photos by Benjamin Busch – in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 18, 2013.
With seven different artists all inhabiting a space that can be literally folded up and easily transported on the back of a truck, you would likely expect cramped chaos when entering REH Kunst. Instead, it is more reminiscent of a camping trip as a kid, welcomed by the smell of fresh wood…[read on…]
Article by Sarah Gretsch, photos by Benjamin Busch – in Berlin; Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2013.
A place, a space, a moment overflowing with whimsy. The place: the prominent former city-center Postfuhramt, which until last weekend housed C/O Berlin. The space: a room tucked away in the clouds, above the daily-treaded exhibition rooms. The moment: right in time for the closing…[read on…]
Article by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 11, 2013.
From wall calendars to crucified frogs to room service receipts, the Martin Kippenberger exhibit at the Hamburger Bahnhof will not fail to mesmerize. A curator’s nightmare, his work occupies three separate areas of the museum in all forms of artistic mediums. It is not solely the prolific nature of the artist that creates…[read on…]
This Sunday is the finissage of Lichtspiel by London based duo Sebastian Kite & Will Laslett at Import Projects. Using light and sound as the primary medium, the exhibition brings together new compositions of Candescence and Orbit, two works that were previously shown at the +-0 Temporary Nightclub at Postbahnhof Berlin, as well as a new…[read on…]
Article by Andrea Ongaro in Berlin // Feb. 28, 2013
It’s not easy to define video art. The word video alone brings a multitude of technologies to mind, from movies to internet videos. Today, everybody is in the position to realize high quality videos – not necessarily good…[read on]
Article by Barbara Confino – in New York; Friday, Feb. 22, 2013.
Together with Dada, Surrealism (and they really are two acts of the same play) was the most inventive of modern movements. An overwhelming number of contemporary practices and attitudes can be traced back to them. Most fundamentally they are responsible for a paradigmatic shift in the definition of the artist. From a craftsman practicing a hard won skill, the artist became…[read on…]
Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013.
It was the daybreak of the twentieth century when the machine, well known friend nowadays, began not only to be valued for its use, but for its look as well. While America in the 1920s and the early 1930s was increasingly a machine-driven culture, the world of photography was ruled by…[read on…]
Interview by Angela Connor in Berlin // Feb. 16, 2013
If you haven’t already heard of Jiga Eva Masumi, you soon will. Already, the distinctive style of the band has attracted the attention of the international art and music scenes. In addition to their recent tour of Israel, they are scooping up key gigs with…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013.
Berlin based Dirk Bell’s latest exhibition at BQ, Schön und Gut features a motley collection of drawings, sculpture, painting, text, installation and found ready-made objects. The exhibition is a morass of romanticism and otherworldly mysticism; a fictional universe that revisits mythological creatures, symbolism, linguistic grid structures and gothic influences from Bell’s…[read on…]
Interview by Natasha Klimenko – in Berlin; Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.
It’s that time again! The annual Berlin-based festival, the transmediale, is just around the corner! Focusing on presenting new media works that question the relations between technology, art, and society, the festival returns with the theme of Back When Pluto Was a Planet (BWPWAP)…[read on…]
