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]
“Othering is alterity in the active voice,” reads the opening line to Nicholas Korody’s accompanying essay, which places Dittrich & Schlechtriem’s group show, ‘Othering,’…[read on]
The group exhibition ‘Mimicry-Empathy,’ curated by German artist Susanne Bürner, brings together works that activate deep connections between the two concepts…[read on]
Petrit Halilaj slips into one of the two costumes lying on the floor. Suddenly, there is a big fuzzy creature with a bushy tail and a mask-like band of black around its eyes standing in…[read on]
Sharp, small, but sweet, ‘read that twice’ is a layered and ironic assessment of the modern-day value system. Though limited in size, it possesses the potential to leave each visitor with…[read on]
After more than 30 years of teaching, Raimund Kummer is ready to retire. The artist and professor of sculpture at the HBK Braunschweig has been constructing an expansive oeuvre…[read on]
