Blog post by Florence Reidenbach – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2012
Rimi Yang’s paintings are a patchwork of abstract expressionist strokes and female figures, of western and eastern imagery, creating an inner sanctum where women of different times and cultures echo each other and meet…
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Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2012.
Last weekend, Berlin Art Link presented its third exhibition in their ongoing
Day & Night series with American artist John Kleckner and Swiss artist Eva Maria Salvador. This exhibition followed on from their first collaborative exhibition
Köpfe und Helme (2011) and explored notions of mortality, entropy, regeneration and metamorphosis, whilst engaging in the creative repurposing of recycled materials…
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Blog post by Anna C. Purcell – in Berlin; Friday, July 6, 2012.
When ideas about innovation have too often fallen into the trap of uninventive imitation, Jaybo, a French artist based in Berlin, rebels against convention. He uses the idiosyncracies of his personal history to explore boundaries, and with his asymmetrical, chaoctic pieces, he challenges the defintion of both art and artist.
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Article by Cara Cotner – in Berlin; Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012.
Berlin currently plays host to an unprecedented trio of Gerhard Richter exhibitions.
Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a comprehensive retrospective at Neue Nationalgalerie, and the accompanying
Editions 1965-2011 at me Collectors Room is a collection of Richter’s graphic prints, photographic editions and artist’s books…
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Blog entry by Devon Elise Atkins – in Berlin; Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011.
Everyone has different ideas about what happens when we die, every culture a different way of mourning or celebrating the life we have lived.
A Wake opened to coincide with the Mexican tradition Lo Dia de los Muertos, or The Day of the Dead, and explores death and the afterlife from various perspectives in moving images.
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Blog entry and photos by SP Williams – in Berlin; Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
Motivated by a sense of the carnivalesque, Ryan Mosley’s canvases offer up a surreal world of invented characters and rituals that are simultaneously archaic and futuristic. Mosley develops his theatrical subjects through a spontaneous approach to painting. “They appear on the canvas,” Mosley explains, “worked, reworked, painted over, feeding on mistakes.
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Blog entry and photos by SP Williams – in Berlin; Monday, June 13, 2011.
In ‘Mythos Incorporated’, Eckart Hahn puts classical symbolism and mythic force to the test. He paints over the subjects with current day objects such as plastic bags, or masks them in ‘marketing colors’, such as the sickly McDonald’s yellow that I connect with cheeseburgers, childhood and constipation.
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