What stands out across the Sigmar Polke retrospective currently on view at Schinkel Pavillon is the artist’s entrenched relationship to the times he lived through…[read on]
For a show that purports to question the hierarchy of sight over the other senses, the first room of ‘AFTER IMAGES’ contains lots of things to look at. Hanging sheets of light-sensitive…[read on]
It was late evening, and it felt strange to be wandering through an office space: echoes of keyboard taps and distant smells of Tupperware lunches, small illusions of the hours…[read on]
The ten square canvasses by German artist Matthias Groebel, currently on view at Schiefe Zähne, although unambiguously dated between 1987 and 1990, appear to inhabit…[read on]
Frieze London returned to The Regent’s Park earlier this week for its 21st edition, featuring over 160 galleries from 43 countries and unvealing a new redesign…[read on]
In a darkened lower gallery of the Nasher Sculpture Center, a purpose-built ramp leads visitors to the edge of an architectural kaleidoscope. Inside, painted foam creatures…[read on]
Aleksandra Domanović’s first survey exhibition, which inaugurated a new season at Kunsthalle Wien under the artistic direction of Michelle Cotton, presents over 40 artworks…[read on]
Melvin Edwards possesses a thoroughly enlivening process mania. Looking at the disciplined repetition of the pieces on view at his indispensable retrospective at…[read on]
How is it possible to have a contemporary art festival in Latvia running for 15 years? The preview of Survival Kit 15 kicked off in a somewhat acerbic tone…[read on]
After the performance of ‘The Melancholic Melody of the New Economy’ at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, first-time director Ariel William Orah told an appreciative audience that…[read on]
Going to an exhibition the morning after its opening night always feels like having missed the main event. But there is a melancholic beauty to it, too. A night just out of reach—the faint…[read on]
The topic of rest, or rather the lack of it, has become ubiquitous. If you asked friends, colleagues or even strangers on the street about their daily lives, a common theme would…[read on]
