Article and photos by Anna Smith – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2012.
Essays and Observations’ minimal website intrigued me into visiting the gallery and seeing the exhibition with the equally intriguing title “appropriation”. The website, like many gallery websites is sleek but unlike most of them, lacks images. It compensates for that strange lack of imagery with well thought out texts. After reading them, I started seeing this lack of visual stimuli as a challenge to first understand…[read on…]
Article by Max Schreier, photos by Chloé Richard – in Berlin; Saturday, Jun. 02, 2012.
Aram Bartholl is an tech artists who makes objects by capturing electronic moments, developing them into classical forms, and using the most analog processes to create digital forms. His work falls into the avant garde not by its innovative methods, but rather by its means of handling the often difficult to tame medium of the web. When I visited Bartholl…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, May 30, 2012.
The space at Berlin Kreuzberg’s Delloro Contemporary Art, run by Italian gallerist Rolando Anselmi, is a radiant setting for any exhibition: the fortress-like doors of this third-floor warehouse loft open onto an exquisite white space, with multiple floor-to-ceiling windows dispensing light from either side…[read on…]
Interview by Anna Russ and Anna Smith, photos by Anthony Georgis – in Berlin; Saturday, May 26, 2012.
A nonprofit institution, a gallery space that has an exhibitions program as well a salon, a public art space, a residency. MOMENTUM is a gallery of galleries, with no limits. “We are about bridging arts internationally” as Cassandra Bird tells us. “A platform that loves to…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill, video production by Dan Dorocic and Alison Hugill in Berlin; Saturday, May 19, 2012.
Amid debates over future uses for the soon-defunct Tegel airport, and on the eve of the 2012 London Summer Olympics, architectural collective raumlaborberlin and three-theatre ensemble Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) have joined forces to critically reinterpret the meaning of the traditional World Fair…[read on…]
Article and photos by Dina Münzfeld in New York; Monday, May 07, 2012.
There has been a tense debate about the future of New York’s art fairs since Frieze’s Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover announced their take on the art metropolis. Having their 180 gallery strong debut in town during May 4 – 7, 2012, the franchise of the well-known spectacle in London’s Regent’s Park now has to withstand the debate about the necessity of another blockbuster art event…[read on…]
Article by Jessyca Hutchens – in Berlin; Monday, Apr. 23, 2012.
So, I intended to write a sort of opening night review of Post-Studio Tales (which opened Thursday April13 and will run until April 30). Instead, somehow, I only managed to get there some hours before and then the day after the opening event, experiencing an excited anticipatory energy on one day, and seeing a more subdued, recovery-mode atmosphere the next…[read on…]
Article by Cara Cotner – in Berlin; Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012.
Berlin currently plays host to an unprecedented trio of Gerhard Richter exhibitions. Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a comprehensive retrospective at Neue Nationalgalerie, and the accompanying Editions 1965-2011 at me Collectors Room is a collection of Richter’s graphic prints, photographic editions and artist’s books…[read on…]
Article by Dina Muenzfeld – in New York; Saturday, Apr. 14, 2012.
The recently opened gallery of art collector, poet and oncologist Marc Straus emerges unobtrusively from its frantic environs. Located in the up and coming Lower East Side on Eldrige and Grand St, the four story gallery building does not only look distinct…[read on…]
Article by Minette Paes – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 11, 2012.
“I wanted to transform the subway from its dark, degrading, and impersonal reality into images that open up our experience again to the colour, sensuality, and vitality of the individual souls that ride it each day.” – Bruce DavidsonSubway…[read on…]
Alexandra (Alex) Tennigkeit has worked steadily for years around themes of German nationhood, religious politics, and personal tales of death and heartbreaking dismay…[read on]
As Los Angeles’ artistic reputation is shifting into the spotlight, the city remains an anomaly for many. Known for a culture whose biggest export is Hollywood, it’s easy to assume…[read on]
