Article by Barbara Confino – in New York; Monday, Dec. 03, 2012.
Lee Friedlander’s double show at the Pace galleries offers an opportunity to look at his work from various viewpoints. His nudes, in particular, having been much commented upon by the critical community, seem to require less an appraisal of their merits qua photography and more an examination of their underlying sensibility and its implications for the wider culture. Unlike his European counterparts, Friedlander is at home with…[read on…]
Blog entry by Melissa King – in Berlin; Friday, Nov. 2, 2012.
For the first time, the European Month of Photography is hosting a portfolio review for aspiring photographers at the conclusion of this year’s festival.
Article by Anna C. Purcell – in Berlin; Saturday, Oct. 06, 2012.
Well-known actor turned photographer, Dennis Hopper‘s lifelong career contains an overwhelming amount of stunning images. His works, which are brazenly political, capture the vitality of American culture in the 1960s. The Lost Album, which…[read on…]
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…[read on…]
Eva Maria Salvador’s remarkable ‘Köpfe’ (Heads) sculptures are hidden away in her Kreuzberg studio, never exhibited as such or seen by more than a select few…[read on]
Blog post by Adela Yawitz – in Berlin; Monday, Sept 10, 2012.
“Timeless Beauty”, currently on view at CO Berlin, is a survey of over a hundred years of fashion photography produced for Condé Nast’s publishing house…. [read on…]
Blog post by Anna Purcell – in Berlin; Saturday, July 21, 2012.
In her graphic history The Genetic Wars, Barbara Confino, a New York City-based artist and writer, explores the repurcussions of a society in which cloning is the primary form of human reproduction. [read on…]
Video by BAL Productions in Dubai // June 14, 2012
Berlin Art Link spoke with multimedia artist Fayçal Baghriche at Satellite project space in Al Serkal, Dubai where he produced his site-specific installation, ‘Nothing More Concrete’. Over three months, Baghriche…[read on…]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, May 9, 2012.
The space at Sur la Montagne (SlaM) Gallery on Torstrasse is split down the middle, with the work of Toronto-based artists Melissa Fisher and Teresa Aversa exhibited on either side. Aversa’s ‘Untitled (Flower Portraits) – an ongoing series of photos of fake flower bouquets, taken in cemeteries around Toronto and developed at Walmart – cover the walls adjacent to the gallery entrance. [read on…]
Article by Samantha Manton in Berlin // Feb. 04, 2012
Gundula Schulze Eldowy’s immunity to tragedy and despair is impressive. Fear of not only witnessing the most harrowing of existential circumstances, but capturing them forever through the…[read on…]
Blog entry by Anna Freedman – in Berlin; Thursday, October 27, 2011.
Fredrich Seidenstücker had a particular quirkiness when it came to taking photographs. Having taken interest in what others may consider distinctly mundane, he made a niche for himself in street and animal photography. He was most successful commercially in the years prior to WWII, at a time when his optimism and sense of humor could be reflected by society as a whole…
Blog entry by Monica Salazar – in Berlin; Wednesday, October 26, 2011.
Using analog style photography, accented with handwritten notes and sketched drawings of journalists and designers during the shows. The Berlin Fashionweek Phototdiary offers a peak into the behind the scenes images of fashionweek. …
