Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013.
In the new year, the second edition of the Dhaka Art Summit, hosted by the Samdani Art Foundation, will present the works of over 250 South Asian and international artists in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The non-commercial event focuses on contemporary art from several South Asian countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Directors Diana Campbell Betancourt (Artistic Director, Samdani Art Foundation) and Mahbubur Rahman (Artist /Co-Founder, Britto Arts Trust, Bangladesh) have put together a programme of curated exhibitions and talks that will explore global and regional perspectives on South Asian art practices…[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Thursday Nov. 7, 2013.
This month, creative hub the WYE will host CYBERFEST: TIME & PLACE, a festival for technologically-based art that has been developing in Russia since 2007. This marks the first time the festival will be held outside of St. Petersburg. The WYE will showcase more than 100 innovators, including sound art, performances, film and video art and public exhibitions focussing on Berlin’s art and tech community and providing a survey of Russian contemporary art.
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Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Tuesday Nov. 5, 2013.
Uwe Neu and Oliver Thoben, curators of Neonchocolate Gallery in Berlin, have published a book offering a personal snapshot of artists that they feel characterize the Berlin art scene. The compilation, Berlin What?, shows the work of both established and up-and-coming contemporary artists based in Berlin.
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Blog post by Alison Hugill, Photos by Stephanie Third – in Berlin; Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013.
The Abandon Isolation exhibition at ROCKELMANN& addresses the modern experience of our separation from nature. The show features the work of two American land artists, Marnie Bettridge and Kathleen Vance, who attempt to reacquaint visitors with the oft-forgotten concept of natural beauty…[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.
Berlin-based music and culture magazine Electronic Beats has just announced the headliners for its autumn music festival at the Alter Schlachthof in Dresden. Yoann Lemoine, known by his stage-name Woodkid, will be performing at the festival in mid-November. Though Woodkid’s solo music is dubbed ‘neofolk,’ Lemoine is also notorious for his exceptional music video direction, and has created a number of artfully composed music videos for stars like Katy Perry and Lana Del Rey. Woodkid last appeared at the Electronic Beats Festival in 2012 in Zagreb…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013.
The brand new Charlottenburg gallery space, established by Jean-Pierre Neumeister and Barak Bar-Am in cooperation with gallerist Ché Zara Blomfield, launched its first exhibition ‘Body Building’ in early September. The name of the show is twofold, referring at once to the architectonics of the human body and the treatment of architecture as the embodiment of a vulnerable physicality…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill, photos by Stephanie Third – in Berlin; Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013.
In September, Absolut Art Bureau awarded two prestigious prizes for Art Writing and Art Work to Coco Fusco and Renata Lucas. The awards are part of a wider initiative by the Swedish vodka company to invest in contemporary art. Absolut’s Art Manager Saskia Neuman spoke to us about…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013.
The physical gallery space is almost completely superfluous to this exhibition. It serves merely as a portal, an exclusive place from which to gain access to the digitally-housed artworks. When you enter the empty rooms of KM Temporaer, you enter the network…[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.
Adina Popescu’s solo exhibition Equitable Life, which opened at Autocenter last week, attempts to put parametric design to the test. Popescu worked together with architect Thomas Rüegger to create a 3D office interior, modeled after a modern ‘new economy’ building and fictionally developed as a life insurance company called Equitable Life. [read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Monday, Oct. 07, 2013.
Architectuul was launched in 2010 by a team of architects, graphic designers and software engineers based in Berlin. As an online architecture community, Architectuul shares international building projects and promotes creators. [read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Tuesday, Oct. 01, 2013.
Fränze Hoppe’s thin, delicate looking pencil drawings on paper are encased in light colour-matched frames for the exhibition at Figge von Rosen Galerie…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Sep. 26, 2013
At the packed opening of Das Numen Momentum during Berlin Art Week, visitors lined up to enter the exhibition one by one at two minute intervals. Unsure of what we were about to witness but privately thrilled by this atmosphere of built suspense, we were asked to enter alone…[read on…]
