Blog post by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014.
On February 12, the Boiler Room in Stattbad Wedding was packed tight with a range of clubbers and beautiful women who knew how to dance. Filtering through the series of side rooms in the club, I came to the dance floor, which was palpitating….[read on…]
Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.
We currently exist in a highly performative time period enhanced, complexified, and rearranged by the Internet. Questions of localized identity, sexuality, and aesthetics are all thrown onto a flat neoglobalized plane of subjectivity. Yung Jake discusses the conception of Tumblr, the role of the artist as…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyozumi & Photos by Emelie Flood – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 24, 2014.
Sofie Bird Møller mixes and matches body language in her new show at Sassa Trülzsch. As with many of her previous street art “Intervention” pieces, the base layer for her art is found material like advertisements, and, as with some of her newer work, old clothes…[read on…]
Article by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 21, 2014.
The massive space of Blain|Southern isn’t an easy one to fill. The hangar-sized rooms can dwarf installations and sculpture, the white vaulted ceilings overpower. But the bursts of tailored and saturated colour in Yinka Shonibare’s solo exhibition Making Eden fill the void with their crafted energy…[read on…]
Blog post by Emelie Flood – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 20, 2014.
The first evening of the One Night Stand series took place at KW Institute for Contemporary Art last Thursday. The project space NOTE ON presented Crampographies, a combination of performance and video art which reflected the potentiality of the cramp as a collective-singular collapse from a feminist and post-identitarian perspective…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014.
Live tableaus may seem like a played out and gimmicky art trend, but the performance Afterimage / Anti-Demo from Yvon Chabrowski last Thursday at the Eigen + Art Lab offered a tasteful poignancy to scenes modelled after viral photos of Russian activists at the hands of the police…[read on…]
Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 10, 2014.
Hamburger Bahnhof’s latest exhibition doesn’t show new work from Harun Farocki, but the videos’ direct political criticisms are still just as relevant…[read on…]
Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014.
The Akademie der Künste is currently hosting the exhibition Lens Based Sculpture, which is set to explore contemporary sculpture’s relationship and indebtedness to photography and the ways in which photography has transformed sculpture as a medium. With over 200 displayed works by more than 70 international artists, Lens Based Sculpture develops the antiquated argument over…[read on…]
Blog post by Emelie Flood – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 3, 2014.
For the third year in a row, Berlin Graphic Days, organized by Berlin Pieces, showcased a rotating selection of the best current illustration, street art & graffiti…[read on…]