On one of those record-breaking hot days in early September, I took a train to Neuss to see Julian Charrière’s latest show at the Langen Foundation. The venue is located just 20 km…[read on]
Much more than just a picturesque landscape, the depth and dynamism of Berlin native Michelle Jezierski’s work is beautifully captured in the recently published book ‘Simultaneous…[read on]
The idea of art as a means of survival has a long history in former Soviet republics. Take this verse from the poem by Latvian poet Ojārs Vācietis, which was the inspiration and provided…[read on]
The word “uprising” is not one I would usually connect to a half-derelict manor house located deep within the Brandenburg countryside. Inconspicuous, it lies nestled between…[read on]
Manifesta 14 provides one of those rare instances where the exhibition space is as interesting as the exhibits they contain. The epicenter of this year’s biennial, held in Prishtina…[read on]
Andrea Fourchy’s canvases in ‘Bachelors’ at Société are drawn from the golden age of post-war cinema and glossy magazines when Jet Set 1.0 ruled the skies. Looming over all others amidst…[read on]
Visual artist, poet, former lead singer and founding member of the seminal Krautrock band CAN Malcolm Mooney’s solo exhibition, ‘Works: 1970–1986,’ focuses on the artist’s…[read on]
We often forget that the nation-state is a modern construct in political discourse. It’s only in times of war or crisis that its imaginary borderlines and principles show themselves to…[read on]
The ex-crematorium turned Kulturquartier presents an exhibition that begins on the sunlit grass outside then travels underground into the multiverse of Agnès Varda’s “third life,”…[read on]
‘Fakes, Fictions and Forensics’—the first in ‘Gossip Gossip Gossip’s’ ongoing series of events—reconsidered gossip not as “empty talk,” but rather, as emancipatory reappropriation…[read on]
Taking the notion of repair as the foundation for this year’s Berlin Biennale, Kader Attia set himself the task of addressing and proposing a means to heal the wounds of our society’s…[read on]
Informed by a biography that bespeaks binary tension—imagine dividing thirty years of your life between crawling in Manhattan and schooling well-to-do students in rural Maine…[read on]
