Article by Sarah Gretsch, photos by Joe Goergen – in Berlin; Monday, Jun. 10, 2013.
In the late 1960s a form of art later coined “land art” sprung up from the newly formed circles of minimalism. With artist Robert Smithson and his work Spiral Jetty at its forefront, land art brought the problems of space, borders, and manufactured versus spontaneous creation to artistic dialogue. Today Smithson’s theory of site versus nonsit, is still…[read on…]
Article by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Saturday, Jun. 08, 2013.
The curator of the 55th Biennale di Venezia, which opened on Saturday, Massimiliano Gioni, is a fan of the clear line. As he announced, “Art is a form of looking at the world, not just decorative objects”, and the Biennale in the guise of The Encyclopaedic Palace served as his definition of the world. Self-taught artist…[read on…]
Article by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Thursday, Jun. 06, 2013.
Berlin.Status [2] is the second survey by Künstlerhaus Bethanien of the city’s current artistic tendencies and trends. Over a year ago Berlin.Status [1] showed artists born between 1973 to 1980, but this year the crowd gets younger, featuring a set of artists between 1978 to 1984. Curated by Sven Drühl and Christoph Tannert, this show…[read on…]
Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 28, 2013.
The Martin Gropius Bau is presenting a show that is sure to be the event of the year in Berlin. A great amount of energy and means has been deployed for an exhibition that can be seen only in Berlin–a show that was conceived here, specifically to be realized here. Anish Kapoor is exhibiting a series of works that occupy the entire ground floor of the Martin Gropius Bau, including the…[read on…]
Interview by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 21, 2013.
United Visual Artists (UVA) has been described as a practice, a collective and as an art and design studio. From installation specific to large-scale permanent works, each project is different, blurring borders between mediums, making classification impossible. Individual works bring together members from a variety of disciplines, traversing the realms of architecture, sculpture, live performance, and digital…[read on…]
Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Thursday, May 14, 2013.
‘Conceptual Tendencies’ is a series of exhibition started in 2011 and was conceived with the intention of bringing together a representative group of artworks from the Daimler Art Collection. The previous stage of the project was discussing issues under the heading…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 07, 2013.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) opened their two-year research study ‘The Anthropocene Project’ in January of this year. The project proposes the Anthropocene–the ‘age of mankind’–as our current geological epoch, in which it is now widely believed that humanity forms nature. The Anthropocene model suggests that the Earth’s current geo-processes are primarily…[read on…]
Interview by Lori Zimmer – in Berlin; Thursday, May 02, 2013.
I first fell in love with Jud Bergeron’s work when he was making Cubist-like sculptures. They at once reminded me of Boccioni, Picasso, and Giacometti–not as a copycat, but as an addition to their school of thought. I loved their multifaceted, kaleidoscopic surfaces, but also that they came in candy colors like baby blue, which, to me, anchored them in…[read on…]
Article by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Tuesday, Apr. 30, 2013.
Gallery Weekend Berlin came and went, and with it the pushing through the crowds, the vague art historical references in attempts to impress your not so artsy friends, and debating whether or not to pick up that hundredth press release. But its concept remains: one weekend when galleries plan to have their biggest, most diverse crowd, and thus bring their very best of…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Tuesday, April. 23, 2013.
New York born and now Berlin based curator Max Schreier has put together an exhibition at Import Projects that examines through nine international artists the ability of the internet to produce both comfort and anxiety in our personal lives…[read on…]
Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013.
A lot of cities in the world show a large degree of urban layering. Some others, having been destroyed and rebuilt, conserve less of this structural organization perhaps modelled over centuries. In cities where ancient and… [read on…]
Article by Axel Andersson – in Berlin; Tuesday, Apr. 16, 2013.
Before television sets became thin, digital and sterile they were chunky (and strangely anthropomorphic) because they needed to host a large cathode ray tube (CRT). At the base of this tube, furthest from the viewer, was one or more ‘guns’ firing electrons (in colour TV one each for red, green and blue) through a vacuum that would eventually land on a…[read on…]
