Interview by TL Andrews // May 28, 2016
The public sculptures strewn around our cities are often inflected with nationalistic pride, they are either the literal concretization of the reigning ideology or petrified relics of failed dispensations…[read on]
Article by Rebecca Partridge // May 26, 2016
Approaching Tempelhof Museum, the faded ornament of a late 19th century villa reveals a time when the village of Alt Mariendorf, a former ‘mansion colony’, stood apart from the patchwork that is now greater…[read on]
Article by Alice Bardos // May 24, 2016
Clemens Behr is a Berlin-based street installation artist originally from the small historical west German city of Koblenz. His works are heavily influenced by three aesthetic streams: architecture,…[read on]
Interview by Alison Hugill // May 20, 2016
Romeo Alaeff is a Berlin-based artist from Brooklyn, New York. His zoomed out photographs of cityscapes, intricate detail drawings and abstract paintings all deal with a common theme: the many manifestations…[read on]
Interview by Alison Hugill in Berlin // May 19, 2016
Gods is a band and art collective with members based in Berlin, Cardiff, Cologne and Innsbruck. Despite the geographical divide, they manage to put out a steady stream of synth-pop and electronic music,…[read on]
Interview by Nathaniel Marcus // May 18, 2016
American artist Jacob Dancy has been based in Berlin since 2014. In November, Bertrand Yom Gallery presented a solo show of his drawing series Stadt der Parks. The drawings depict imaginary sites of…[read on]
Article by Julianne Cordray // May 17, 2016
Realness of place—locatable in the details—is recontextualized within the expansive realm of the imaginary in a six-panel composite print, which comprises Julie Mehretu’s collaboration…[read on]
Article by Alice Bardos // May 16, 2016
A few moments of confusion may elapse before the full effect of the Hood Chiller imparts its späti-fied art gallery effect on viewers. Earrings, street wear, hats key chains an more are pressed tightly up…[read on]
Article by William Kherbek // May 13, 2016
The image that drew me into the labyrinthine network of relations and references in the exhibition Living in the Radiant Cold at Delmes & Zander was that of a nondescript scene near the main railway station in…[read on]
Interview by TL Andrews // May 12, 2016
As a second generation domestic worker Xyza Bacani’s life in Hong Kong consisted primarily of cleaning other people’s homes and taking care of their children. Amid all the obligations though, she…[read on]
Interview by Penny Rafferty // May 10, 2016
Lawrence Lek’s highly rendered architectural worlds create impossible possibilities, through zoomed out narratives and virtual constructs. In his recent contribution to the Secret Surfaces exhibition at KW…[read on]
Interview by Alison Hugill // May 03, 2016
With only a month to go before the opening of the 2016 Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, the event website offers a tantalizingly opaque series of suggestions about what we may or may not expect…[read on]
