Article by Stephanie von Behr in Berlin // Apr. 10, 2017
Deville Cohen’s video, sculpture and performance works visualize an attempt to understand one’s immediate reality through metaphorical environments that undulate between function and fantasy. They reveal the confusion…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Mar. 21, 2017
Lena Henke’s contemporary sculptures solicit masculine compositions from Brutalism to Surrealism to Freudian theory. Yet Henke floods, drowns and ignites a fierce femininity in…[read on]
Article by William Kherbek in Berlin // Mar. 17, 2017
The interaction of history, myth and fantasy have long been key subjects in the filmic practice of artist Louis Henderson. His film, ‘The Sea is History’ (2016), taking its title from a poem by the British-St. Lucian Nobel laureate…[read on]
Article by Candice Nembhard in Berlin // Mar. 10, 2017
In line with KW’s goal to create a programme that investigates dialogue as a profoundly political act, Adam Pendleton’s exhibition ‘Shot him in the face’ is an attempt at dealing with the complexity of language, by…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Mar. 6, 2017
Five years ago Lawrence Weiner asked me if I liked whisky. We were at a dinner for his exhibition ‘Concentricity Per Se’, which we had just mounted at a gallery in Berlin. I said I did (I do), and found my large empty…[read on]
Article by Liam Casey in Los Angeles // Mar. 3, 2017
Between February 23-26, the lines snaking down the sidewalk on 1st Street in Little Tokyo heading towards the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA weren’t in fact for a beloved bowl of savory ramen, but rather…[read on]
Article by Marta Jecu in Lisbon // Feb. 07, 2017
The idea of a potent architecture (a box that not only contains, but also generates solutions) has been a favored utopia across the ages: a house that is mobile, turns into a vehicle and flies…[read on]
Article by April Dell in Berlin // Feb. 03, 2017
For a brief week in October last year, visitors to SomoS Art House in Kreuzberg were treated to a twelve minute glimpse into a playful and sensual dreamscape free from inhibitions and the spatial…[read on]
Article by Candice Nembhard in Berlin // Feb. 02, 2017
‘Through You’ is an experimental project, debuting at Sundance Film Festival, in which the virtual collides with the real. Filmmaker and dancer Lily Baldwin teamed with writer and director Saschka…[read on]
Article by Romily Alice In London // Jan. 20, 2017
Erin Riley’s work is a perpetual fusing of the virtual and the real. Marrying modern concepts with traditional technique, Riley weaves our online lives into large-scale tapestries, asking questions about the value of labour…[read on]
Article by Ursula Ströbele in Berlin // Jan. 13, 2017
The past year has been an exciting one for VR technology. Carl Goodman, Executive Director of the Museum for Moving Image in New York recently highlighted the paradigm shift: “Virtual reality has been…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Jan. 04, 2017
Canadian artist Char Davies pioneered the genre now known as immersive virtual reality (VR) in the 1990s. Davies built the famous ‘Osmose’ (1995), a fully immersive artwork that changed the role of the user in radical…[read on]
