Article by Rebecca Partridge in Berlin // Oct. 19, 2016
Set back in a gated hinterhof off Linienstraße, Galerie Neu’s visitors have to know what they are looking for. The freestanding architecture of the gallery is an in-between space—being both…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Oct. 17, 2016
Light regulates us. It allows us to understand the passage of time; we see light as energy indicating a life force. Brenna Murphy transforms light into pixels. Her works may never live in our own atmosphere but our eyes…[read on]
Article by Julianne Cordray in Berlin // Oct. 14, 2016
Entangled, amorphous masses of color—from earthy brown to electric blue—inhabit the space of Galerie Barbara Wien in an exhibition of Nina Canell’s interplaying static and kinetic sculptural installations. In…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus // Oct. 10, 2016
This autumn sees the opening of a solo show by Berlin-based, Georgian photographer David Meskhi. Thanks to Meskhi’s vertiginous play of ground and horizon in photos of Georgia’s national gymnastics team,…[read on]
My invitation to the studio of artist Euan Williams came with strict instructions to bring a pen: “It shouldn’t be a biro, or water resistant, it should be an ink that could…[read on]
Article by Nina Prader // Oct. 04, 2016
Every era has its quirks, its paranoia, its fears, its diseases, its corrupt politics, its hopes and dreams. Bundle up all these currents and you have a Golem. As the origin myth goes: in the 1600s, in Prague, Rabbi Löw…[read on]
Self-effacing artists are hard to find these days. In the history of photographic theory, critics overzealously claimed for the medium an outward looking gaze that…[read on]
Article by TL Andrews in Berlin // Sep. 29, 2016
Photographs only really became a staple in journalism from around the 1920s. Before then illustration, or so-called pictorial journalism, was the norm. Audiences experienced everything—from gruesome scenes…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton // Sep. 27, 2016
Artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas grew up in the UK, the son of Sri Lankan parents who fled the country’s civil war in the 1980s. His interest in Sri Lankan history palpably emerges in his artistic practice, most notably…[read on]
Article by William Stewart // Sep. 22, 2016
Leah Dixon is strong. She will tell you this, though she doesn’t need to. Her arms show it. She built her own bar, Beverley’s on the Lower East Side of New York, by hand. And if you catch one of her shows, she’s…[read on]
Article by Lucia Love // Sep. 19, 2016
The only thing that can’t be sold is a gift. Once those glass angel figurines from last Christmas go up on eBay (and you squeeze some free money from them for a holiday blunt), those totems return to the rising…[read on]
Article by Romily Alice in London // Sep. 16, 2016
Rachel Maclean’s signature cute/grotesque aesthetic, rooted in the fairytale genre and a critique of happiness marketing, belies the labor intensive production techniques that facilitate its construction…[read on]