Blog post by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014.
With the development of web culture and technologies, art moves onto the internet and artworks have to anticipate their inevitable online presence. This development brings both problems and possibilities, since the web makes art…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Dec. 13, 2014.
Shortly after our studio visit with experimental architecture collective raumlaborberlin, a retrospective of one of the group’s inspirational forerunners, Vienna-based collective Haus-Rucker-Co, is presented at Haus am Waldsee…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014.
The latest retrospective at the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin is a fully immersive experience: a curatorial feat rarely realized in big institutions, but absolutely crucial to the nature of this exhibition. The show is a survey of Hungarian, Bauhaus heavyweight László Moholy-Nagy’s early preoccupation with a full sensorial education…[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014.
But for all this patriotic association, Wadden’s pieces are equally connected to a tradition of textile-making rooted in European modernist practices and abstract geometrical painting. His handwoven works on canvas seem to follow closely the tradition of many of the female pioneers of the Bauhaus …[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Monday, Nov. 24, 2014.
When Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar of the London-based collective The Otolith Group presented their exhibition Medium Earth last week at HKW, they emphasised the curatorial unease of their piece inside this weighty cultural institution…[read on…]
In 1925 Walter Gropius published Internationale Architektur, a photographic survey of what he considered the iconic feats of modern architecture at the time. Alongside images of Bauhaus buildings – the Meisterhäuser and school building in Dessau among them…[read on…]
Blog post by Hilarey Cowan – in Berlin; Sunday, Sep. 21, 2014.
In Mitte, the smaller scale, less jam-packed Positions Berlin art fair offered an alternative to the abc – art berlin contemporary throngs during Berlin Art Week…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Friday, Jul. 25, 2014
In a tragic but somehow beautiful turn of events, Otto Piene passed away, at the age of 86, on July 17th, the same day that his major retrospective opened at the Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle. Fortunately…[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Monday, Jul. 14, 2014.
American ‘paper architect’ Lebbeus Woods died in 2012, after an illustrious career in academics, art, and futuristic film set design. Though his works are presented in the Museum for Architectural Drawing, Woods never finished his degree in architecture, nor did he practice…[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Friday, Jul. 11, 2014.
Aurelia Gratzer‘s solo show at Galerie Hunchentoot has been extended into August. The small commercial gallery in Mitte is showing 8 of her paintings, the majority of which are presented on large format canvasses…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Apr. 25, 2014
At first glance, the current show Zephir at Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle seems like a patently traditional painting exhibition. The whole arrangement exudes the kind of banal, apolitical, and out-of-touch aesthetic that you might expect from an art institution funded by one of the country’s biggest banks…[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Monday, Apr. 21, 2014.
Since the 1990s there has been a considerable push in art practice towards socially-engaged, participatory methods. Instead of removing art from the ‘useless’ domain of aesthetics and relocating it into praxis or politics, this year’s Hardbakka Ruins Project aims to think about art as existing in an ambiguous territory that deals with complex social concerns like political engagement, affect, inequality, class, narcissism, and social norms….[read on…]
