Article by Candice Nembhard in Berlin // Mar. 31, 2017
Almost eighty years after its disappearance, the whereabouts of ‘Der Turm der Blauen Pferde’ (The Tower of the Blue Horses) by German Expressionist Franz Marc is still largely…[read on]
There are few contemporary artists whose practices travel the same imaginative distance as Charles Avery. Initially a ten-year project, now a lifetime…[read on]
Article by Göksu Kunak in Berlin // Mar. 27, 2017
“Yes to redefining virtuosity; Yes to conceptualizing experience, affects, sensation; Yes to materiality/body practice; Yes to investment of performer and spectator”, writes choreographer…[read on]
Scottish, Berlin-based artist Douglas Gordon gained critical acclaim in the art world with his 1996 Turner Prize win and his piece ’24 Hour Psycho’, a rear-projected…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Mar. 21, 2017
Lena Henke’s contemporary sculptures solicit masculine compositions from Brutalism to Surrealism to Freudian theory. Yet Henke floods, drowns and ignites a fierce femininity in…[read on]
Article by William Kherbek in Berlin // Mar. 17, 2017
The interaction of history, myth and fantasy have long been key subjects in the filmic practice of artist Louis Henderson. His film, ‘The Sea is History’ (2016), taking its title from a poem by the British-St. Lucian Nobel laureate…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Mar. 14, 2017
To the linguistically untrained eye, an exhibition of graphic design in foreign characters will necessarily appear artistic rather than didactic. In the current show at Kunstbibliothek, ‘Writing Pictures…[read on]
Article by Lisa Birch in Berlin // Mar. 13, 2017
Beatriz Díaz Ceballos is a Valencia-based, Spanish artist whose enigmatic sculptures create ties between socio-cultural activity and literary creativity and poetry. She tends to work within small formats, creating intricate…[read on]
Article by Candice Nembhard in Berlin // Mar. 10, 2017
In line with KW’s goal to create a programme that investigates dialogue as a profoundly political act, Adam Pendleton’s exhibition ‘Shot him in the face’ is an attempt at dealing with the complexity of language, by…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Mar. 6, 2017
Five years ago Lawrence Weiner asked me if I liked whisky. We were at a dinner for his exhibition ‘Concentricity Per Se’, which we had just mounted at a gallery in Berlin. I said I did (I do), and found my large empty…[read on]
Article by Liam Casey in Los Angeles // Mar. 3, 2017
Between February 23-26, the lines snaking down the sidewalk on 1st Street in Little Tokyo heading towards the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA weren’t in fact for a beloved bowl of savory ramen, but rather…[read on]
Article by Lisa Birch, Photos by Sandra Camey in Berlin // Feb. 28, 2017
‘I Will always be too expensive to buy.’, ‘I will always mean what I say.’, ‘I will always do what I say I am going to do.’. These were the statements that the…[read on]