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Light // Under the Spotlight: An Interview with Annemie Vanackere, Director of HAU
Article by Göksu Kunak in Berlin // Oct. 21, 2016
In a performance, the effect of light has the potential to enormously transform the perception of a mo(ve)ment. Light, as a language in itself, not only narrates but also veils various situations. In that sense, how does…[read on]
Light // Cerith Wyn Evans at Galerie Neu
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]
Light // The Architecture of Consciousness: An Interview with Brenna Murphy
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]
Light // Nina Canell’s ‘Foam-Skin Insulated Jelly-Filled Vowel’ at Barbara Wien
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]
Light // ‘When the Earth Seems to Be Light’: An Interview with David Meskhi
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]
Euan Williams
by Rebecca Partridge // Oct. 7, 2016
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]
Light // The Apparition of the Golem: From Clay Formations to the Laterna Magica
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]
Jeff Weber
by Alison Hugill // Sept. 29, 2016
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]
Work // What Only the Hand Can See: An Interview with Molly Crabapple
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]
Work // Prototyping the Future: An Interview with Christopher Kulendran Thomas
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]
Work // Construction and Deconstruction: An Interview with Leah Dixon
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]