Q&As

Filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck: American Angst and German Paranoia

by Nicolas Hausdorf // Apr. 18, 2016

Television game shows as tools for occupation, feedback loop anthropology and psychoanalysis in the post-national laboratory: admittedly, there is something overwhelming…[read on]

Body // Sharing and Baring All: An Interview with Vivian Fu

Interview by Celia Wickham // Apr. 15, 2016
Looking at Vivian Fu’s photographs, her romantic and rose-tinted view of the world echoes throughout each image. Her intimate pictures, most often documenting herself and her relationships with others,…[read on]

Body // Deep Surface: An Interview with Lorenzo Sandoval

Interview by Alison Hugill // Apr. 11, 2016
Lorenzo Sandoval is an artist, curator, theorist and self-professed amateur architect. His works reckon with distributions of space and power through platforms and encounters that encourage…[read on]

Body // Re-Examining the White Supremacist Gaze: An Interview with Doreen Garner

Interview by Penny Rafferty // Apr. 06, 2016
The body in art has always been a contested issue as far as representation, but it is also central to how we understand our identities today through gender, race, sexuality and ethnicity. People use the body as a…[read on]

Body // Berlin Movers: An Interview with 2008daughters

Interview by Ruth Amelung // Apr. 04, 2016
I am sitting in a typical Kreuzberg café, white tiled with a wooden, slightly industrial interior flair. It’s just before noon on a grey Wednesday, but it isn’t very busy. An americano in front of me, I’m waiting…[read on]

Home // Poetics Beyond the Continent: An Interview with Ato Malinda

Interview by TL Andrews // Mar. 29, 2016
Ato Malinda’s work as performance artist and activist has been featured at venues like the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, the National Museum of African Art and The Smithsonian…[read on]

Home // Sonntag at Home: An Interview with April Gertler and Adrian Schiesser

Berlin Art Link Interview with April Gertler and Adrian Schiesser

Article by Alice Bardos // Mar. 25, 2016
Artists April Gertler and Adrian Schiesser have been hosting art exhibitions in the intimate spaces of homes since 2012. Initially the project space, called Sonntag for the day they always take place on,…[read on]

HOME // Going Off Grid: An Interview with Kevin Faingnaert

Interview by TL Andrews – in Berlin // Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2016.

Kevin Faingnaert has made a name for himself photographing obscure communities and sub-cultures. His works include portraits of an underground racing community that operates without any rules…[read on…]

HOME // Detroit House: An Interview with Ryan Mendoza

Interview by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 21, 2016.

Ryan Mendoza is a Berlin-based, American painter who has taken on a different sort of conceptual project with his latest work, alternately known as ‘Detroit House,’ ‘Coming Home’ or…[read on…]

HOME // In the Salon: An Interview with Jan-Philipp Sexauer

Interview by Penny Rafferty, Photos by Ériver Hijano – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2016.

At every opening held at Sexauer gallery you hear a whispered or hushed question: “Have you seen the salon?” of the Regardless of the answer, an enthusiastic exaltation of the space follows. The home is..[read on…]

HOME // ‘The Revolution Won’t Be Televised’: An Interview with Rama Thiaw

Interview by Marc Girardot in Berlin // Mar. 11, 2016
In Senegal, when President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office yet again in 2011, a resistance movement formed on the streets. Shortly afterwards, a group of school friends, including rappers…[read on…]

HOME // ‘Home Economics’ at the British Pavilion: An Interview with Jack Self

Interview by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 07, 2016.

Writers Jack Self and Shumi Bose and architect Finn Williams have been selected as the curatorial team for this year’s British Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. In response to Biennale curator Alejandro Aravena‘s call for proposals under…[read on…]