Article by Sumugan Sivanesan // Feb. 04, 2020
If art is an indicator of social wellbeing, Gropius Bau is an example of how major institutions act as intermediaries between state sponsors, corporate interests and their publics, suggesting the…[read on]
American artist Maryam Jafri’s practice is decidedly research-based and interdisciplinary. When delving into a particular topic, she often examines its historical, political and economic implications…[read on]
Article by Diane Barbé // Jan. 17, 2020
Walking down the flight of stairs that leads to SAVVY Contemporary, the voice of a woman emanates from inside. She is telling a story, in English, about a man who is looking for a mouse…[read on]
Interview by William Kherbek // Jan. 10, 2020
Pattison has recently explored the ways in which robotic management of data has played a role in aspects of wellness from managing sleep cycles to examining and assessing health information from app users…[read on]
Heba Y. Amin is a creator, but also a recycler, reaching into the depths of history to extract snippets—images and moments—and repurposing them…[read on]
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]