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Getting to the Root of Tree of Codes

By Nora Kovacs // Sept. 30, 2015
When it was first announced that musical artist Jamie XX, visual artist Olafur Eliasson, and choreographer Wayne McGregor would be coming together to collaborate on an adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s…[read on]

Space // The Collective Unconscious: Stadt/Bild (Image of a City)

By Josie Thaddeus-Johns // Sept. 29, 2015
The flagship exhibition for Berlin Art Week, Stadt/Bild (Image of a City) was commissioned by the governing Mayor of Berlin and the Senate Chancellery – proof, if it was ever needed, that the city of Berlin’s interest in navel-gazing extends to the highest reaches of authority…[read on]

Space // A Speculative Fiction: Femina Subtetrix at Ivan Gallery, Bucharest

Article by Alison Hugill // Sept. 23, 2015
The title of the current exhibition by Larisa Crunţeanu and Sonja Hornung, Femina Subtetrix, suggests an underlying feminist counter-narrative, a pseudo sci-fi speculative invention perhaps. This initial…[read on]

Space // An Interview with Karl Holmqvist

By Alison Hugill // Sept. 17, 2015
Swedish-born, Berlin-based artist Karl Holmqvist is coming to abc this year with a series of his iconic text-based works, represented by Galerie Neu. The artist is well-known for his poetry readings, installations, and…[read on]

Space // ‘In the (Silicon) Gutter but Looking at the Stars’: An Interview about the Nonhuman Autonomous Space Agency

By Alan Smart // Sept. 16, 2015
Over Skype, I spoke with Fred Scharmen of the Working Group on Adaptive Systems from his Baltimore studio to discuss his latest “speculative utopian design proposal” for a Nonhuman Autonomous Space Agency…[read on]

Space // An Interview with Caroline Mesquita

Interview by Alena Sokhan // Sept. 15, 2015
French sculptor and artist Caroline Mesquita is using the large space in the basement of the Carlier|Gebauer as a studio for the last few months, creating large humanoid figures out of metal, scattered throughout the…[read on]

Björn Dahlem

by Alison Hugill // Sept. 14, 2015

In an unexpected turn of events, two days after our studio visit with architect Arno Brandlhuber, we had the occasion to visit one…[read on]

Arno Brandlhuber

by Alison Hugill // Sept. 7, 2015

You’ve likely passed the unusual building on Brunnenstraße, clad with multi-coloured polycarbonate and emitting an opaque…[read on]

Space // A Revised Look at a Radically Modern 1960s Berlin

Article by April Dell // Sept. 04, 2015
After a ten month hiatus for renovations, Berlinische Galerie reopened in May with Radikal Modern: Planen und Bauen im Berlin der 1960er-Jahre (Radically Modern: Urban Planning and Architecture in 1960s Berlin), an exhibition that aims to stimulate a fresh perspective on an era of modern architecture…[read on]

COLLABORATION // An Interview with Julieta Aranda (e-flux)

Interview by Arielle Bier – in Berlin; Monday, Aug. 31, 2015.

Over the last seventeen years, e-flux became the ‘go-to’ platform for information and exchanges between art and academia worldwide with a readership of 90,000+ visual arts professionals. Russian artist Anton Vidokle initially conceived the project as a mailing-list for promoting exhibitions…[read on…]

COLLABORATION // An Interview with Peaches

Interview by Arielle Bier, Photos by Alexander Coggin – in Berlin; Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.

The inimitable Peaches strikes again! The transgressive cult queen of electro-clash made waves in Berlin this summer with a fierce appearance at the YOSISSY! Festival, revelling in the one of her favorite home bases before re-igniting the flame under her vajazzled bodysuit…[read on…]

COLLABORATION // An Interview with Scotty Enterprises

Interview by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015.

Artist-run project space Scotty Enterprises was founded in 2006 in Kreuzberg and played a vital role in this year’s Project Space Festival, earlier this month. What sets this space apart from others of its kind is that it is collaboratively run and organized by 15 artists…[read on…]