Posts Tagged ‘KW Institute’

THE WEEK Nov. 05–11, 2018

Openings and events at Volksbühne, Berlinische Galerie, Galerie Pankow, Akademie der Künste, English Theatre, Diskurs, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Galerie im Turm, Mehdi Chouakri, Galerie Barbara Thumm and more…[read on]

Beatriz González Art of “El Pueblo” at KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Article by Isabelle Hore-Thorburn // Oct. 26, 2018
Beatriz González’s exploration of “lo popular” (the low brow) and “lo cursi” (the tacky) and her contestation of the boundaries of good and bad taste have defined her career…[read on]

THE WEEK Oct. 08–14, 2018

Openings and events at Hungaricum, CNTRM, Dead, Philipp Haferkampf Galerie, HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Haus Am Lützowplatz, Berliner Festspiele, Diskurs, IFA Galerie Berlin, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Hamburger Bahnhof, Galerie im Saalbau, Tanya Leighton,…[read on]

Apply for a Research Fellowship at KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Berlin Art Link Open Call KW Research Fellowship

Aug. 27, 2018
KW Institute for Contemporary Art is partnering with Volkswagen Group and calling for applicants to receive a two-year VW Research Fellowship that will focus on digitizing KW’s archive for the public…[read on]

Announcement // viennacontemporary Art Fair Returns to Marx Halle, Vienna

Caroline Kryzecki, 'KSY 200: 152-14,' 2015 // Courtesy SEXAUER

Article by Katharine Doyle in Berlin // Sep. 10, 2017
From September 21st to 24th, viennacontemporary will host artworks and programs from around 110 galleries and institutions from 27 countries in the Marx Halle. Built at the end of the 19th century…[read on]

Words // ‘Shot him in the face’ at KW: An Interview with Adam Pendleton

Berlin Art Link Adam Pendleton shot him in the face KW Institute

Article by Candice Nembhard in Berlin // Mar. 10, 2017
In line with KW’s goal to create a programme that investigates dialogue as a profoundly political act, Adam Pendleton’s exhibition ‘Shot him in the face’ is an attempt at dealing with the complexity of language, by…[read on]

THE WEEK February 27 – March 05, 2017

Openings at Spektrum, Photo edition Berlin, HAU—Hebbel am Ufer, me Collectors Room, KW, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Supportico Lopez, Galerie Sandy Brown, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Zilberman Gallery, Galerie Wedding, Michael Reid Gallery, Michael Fuchs,…[read on]

Cities // Virtual Living: An Interview with Lawrence Lek

Interview by Penny Rafferty // May 10, 2016
Lawrence Lek’s highly rendered architectural worlds create impossible possibilities, through zoomed out narratives and virtual constructs. In his recent contribution to the Secret Surfaces exhibition at KW…[read on]

Cities // The Present in Drag: An Interview with DIS

Interview by Alison Hugill // May 03, 2016
With only a month to go before the opening of the 2016 Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, the event website offers a tantalizingly opaque series of suggestions about what we may or may not expect…[read on]

Exhibition // Alex Turgeon at KW Institute’s 3 ½ Space

Article by William Kherbek – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 22, 2016.

The archetypal cowboy is an isolated figure. Rootless, drifting along a kind of endless Euclidean plain into an unreachable sunset, the cowboy, for a certain generation, may have worked on the same ranch as the Existentialists, but his Stetson signified an entirely different worldview than the beret of his philosophical compadres. Alex Turgeon’s…[read on…]

INTERSECTIONS // Berlin-Bucharest Exchange: Relic or Relevant? Painting in Berlin

Article by April Dell – in Berlin; Monday, Oct. 26, 2015.

Contemporary painting is often quoted as commercial, unoriginal, and irrelevant. Theorists have been claiming the death of painting since the establishment of Modernism, and shouts of its resuscitation have echoed since the 1980s. Though perhaps not leading the avant garde in recent decades, painting continues to carry weight in the collections of art institutions…[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]