Posts Tagged ‘decolonialism’
Tracing the Subject: Pia Arke at KW
by Josefin Granetoft // July 26, 2024
In one of her numerous self-portraits taken against the panorama of the Nuugaarsuk coastal point in South Greenland, Greenlandic-Danish artist Pia Arke…[read on]
Afrofuturist Techno Myths: An Interview with DeForrest Brown Jr.
by Berlin Art Link // Dec. 1, 2023
We reached out to DeForrest Brown Jr. to learn more about his contribution and personal connection to the show, the myths surrounding the origins of techno as well as how…[read on]
Emancipation through Collectivity and Joy: ‘O Quilombismo’ at HKW
by Lorna McDowell // June 27, 2023
‘O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies’ draws on further development of the quilombist…[read on]
Rituals of Resistance: An Interview with Kader Attia
by Adela Lovric // Oct. 8, 2021
The work of the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia teaches us that time alone doesn’t heal traumas. Through visual metaphors, individual and collective histories and information…[read on]
Open Call for Dekoloniale Berlin Residency 2021
Mar. 23, 2021
Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City, in cooperation with Contemporary And (C&), is pleased to announce the first open call for the Dekoloniale Berlin Residency in 2021…[read on]
The New Brutalism: An Interview with Álvaro Guilherme
by Sofia Bergman // Oct. 8, 2020
He and his work could be mistaken for Jean-Michel Basquiat but Álvaro Guilherme is no impersonator. Rather, he is creating the Art Brut of today, and he calls it New Brutalism…[read on]
Article by Hannah Carroll Harris // May 29, 2020
Re-centring the periphery is the focus of this year’s Biennale of Sydney which takes an expansive approach to its themes of First Nations sovereignty, environmental crisis, community…[read on]
Interview by Jack Radley // Dec. 17, 2019
Moroccan-born, Berlin-based artist Bouchra Khalili never centers herself in her narrative work. Instead, she collaborates with individuals to radically rethink our understanding of the complex…[read on]
Article by Martha Lochhead // Dec. 16, 2019
‘Spectral White’ at the HKW assesses how Europeans may have been depicted in the art of the colonized. The exhibition offers an incomplete reconstruction of ethnologist Julius Lips’…[read on]
Article by April Dell // Dec. 11, 2019
“Are we there yet?” asks a carved relief in the gallery wall. “There” in Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s exhibition ‘A Casual Mathematics’ can be found between the lines of her poetic…[read on]
Interview by Jo Lawson-Tancred // Nov. 08, 2019
Live performance, graphics and film are just some of the media through which British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong explores class, race and postcolonial society in a practice that delves fluidly…[read on]
