Interview by Jack Radley // Dec. 17, 2019
Moroccan-born, Berlin-based artist Bouchra Khalili never centers herself in her narrative work. Instead, she collaborates with individuals to radically rethink our understanding of the complex…[read on]
Article by Martha Lochhead // Dec. 16, 2019
‘Spectral White’ at the HKW assesses how Europeans may have been depicted in the art of the colonized. The exhibition offers an incomplete reconstruction of ethnologist Julius Lips’…[read on]
Article by April Dell // Dec. 11, 2019
“Are we there yet?” asks a carved relief in the gallery wall. “There” in Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s exhibition ‘A Casual Mathematics’ can be found between the lines of her poetic…[read on]
Interview by Alison Hugill // Dec. 06, 2019
Priscila Rezende presented the German premier of her performance ‘Nau Frágil’ at Ballhaus Naunynstraße this week, as part of the festival ‘Postcolonial Poly Perspectives’…[read on]
Article by Ilyn Wong // Nov. 29, 2019
‘There is no non-violent way to look at somebody,’ an exhibition of film, sculpture, text and sound by artist and filmmaker Wu Tsang…[read on]
Article by Juan José Santos Mateo // Nov. 22, 2019
The creator Rubén H. Bermúdez caught the attention of a system that was strange to him—contemporary art—thanks to his 2018 photo book ‘And You, Why Are You Black?’…[read on]
Article by William Kherbek // Nov. 19, 2019
The latest iteration of the exhibition series ‘Love and Ethnology’ at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt is rooted in the intellectual project of the German writer Hubert Fichte…[read on]
Article by Denisa Tomkova // Nov. 15, 2019
The exhibition ‘The Long Term You Cannot Afford. On the Distribution of the Toxic’ at SAVVY Contemporary uncovers the different forms and meanings of the toxic…[read on]
Article by Dagmara Genda // Nov. 12, 2019
It’s not without reason that biennials have reaped their fair share of criticism. For all their worth in unpacking complex topics and making the arts an economic engine…[read on]
Interview by Jo Lawson-Tancred // Nov. 08, 2019
Live performance, graphics and film are just some of the media through which British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong explores class, race and postcolonial society in a practice that delves fluidly…[read on]
Article by Faye Campbell // Nov. 05, 2019
‘De-Heimatize It!’ is a call to action. The exhibition is a battle-cry, multiple voices coming together to form a rousing chorus demanding change, representation and attention.…[read on]
