Article by Penny Raffery in Berlin // Sep. 14, 2016
We live in a world where work is precarious and exploitative. Using Facebook in our free time allows data-mining economies to profit while we sit idly skimming feeds because we are either overworked or out of work…[read on]
By Berlin Art Link // Sep. 13, 2016
GCC is a collective of delegates based in the Arabian Gulf, including Nanu Al-Hamad, Khalid Al Gharaballi, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Fatima Al Qadiri, Monira Al Qadiri, Aziz Al Qatami, Barrak Alzaid and Amal Khalaf…[read on]
Article by William Kherbek in Berlin // Sep. 09, 2016
The title of this exhibition takes its name from a work by Martin Kohout, a series of prints of book covers placed behind gold privacy filters that promise their readers the capacity to survive renovating,…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton // Sep. 07, 2016
You could say that Erwin Wurm goes that extra mile to make people work. I mean, really work. At his recent Berlinische Galerie exhibition, the main hall buzzed with frenetic energy as crowds of people climbed…[read on]
Article by Nathaniel Marcus // Sep. 05, 2016
My point of entry into ‘Poppy — Trails of Afghan Heroin’ was a city in southern Kyrgyzstan called Osh. Spread across four projected video channels was footage shot out of a car window into a slate-colored street at evening, overlaid with a line of text on Osh’s sex worker trafficking…[read on]
Article by Benjamin Busch in Berlin // Sep. 02, 2016
Last year’s popular book ‘Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work’ (Verso) set forth three interwoven political…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty // Aug. 26, 2016
Pastel-hued breasts, hair etched into painted canvases, stealth desert snakes and over-sized hands melt seamlessly together. A sex-conjoined animal and human in a lucid dream-like state are some…[read on]
Article by William Stewart in Berlin // Aug. 19, 2016
A truism: lives stretch out in a series of shifts. Whether at the scale of days, years, or decades, existence constitutes a chain of transitions from one state to another. There are moments of development and crisis, of personal…[read on]
Article by Alice Bardos // Aug. 16, 2016
Seeming to effortlessly keep a finger on the pulse of rebellious youth cultures including street-style, post-mainstream publications such as High Snobiety carry an air of allure and yet somehow…[read on]
Article by Alice Bardos in Berlin // Aug. 12, 2016
I’d done research into his sculptures and surreal post-internet pieces before I’d met him, but going off of the intellectual and nostalgic facets of his work—in tandem with with my quickly made presumptions towards…[read on]
Article by TL Andrews // Aug. 08, 2016
Sholem Krishtalka remembers it vividly. He was waiting for his boyfriend in the lobby of the Kunstraum Kreuzberg exhibition space, where they were planning to visit an audio installation. Spring time had softened the air…[read on]
