Article by Axel Andersson – in Berlin; Thursday, April. 04, 2013.
The Norwegian artist Fredrik Værslev invites the spectator to look, and then look again with seven works at Circus gallery. There is a wealth of references superimposed on what, for being both paintings and sculptures, are painstakingly minimalist objects. Ostensibly the subject matter is the landscape and Værslev returns to this depleted genre in order to imbue it with new meaning. The works all consist of frosted…[read on…]
‘System und Sinnlichkeit,’ the contemporary drawing show at Kupferstichkabinett, features eighty works by ten artists. The majority of the works are non-figurative with unifying themes of grids, cell structures, chaos, models for imagined worlds and the material as subject…[read on…]
Article by Ngan Le – in Berlin; Thursday, Mar. 28, 2013.
NY Media and Performance artist Barbara Rosenthal wound up her February European tour in Berlin with three shows in Neukölln — video at the Boddinale, and video and photography at Studio-Baustelle — her twelfth exhibition in Berlin since 2008. An increasingly younger public has grown…[read on…]
Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2013.
TANAS is a space for contemporary Turkish art, that present itself as a connecting platform between artists and an international audience. Collaborating with Turkish cultural actors, TANAS follows and presents the rapid development in the Turkish cultural scene of the last two decades. This is…[read on…]
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…]
