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. …
Blog entry by Samantha Manton – in Berlin; Tuesday, October 11, 2011.
It is the juxtaposition of small-scale, black and white, digitally produced prints with their much larger, full colour, analogously prepared counterparts on the walls of Klemm’s that arouses great curiosity at even the slightest glance through the gallery’s glass frontage. It is the relationship between the two that presents Viktoria Binschtok as a thoughtful and analytical artist whose pictorial explorations raise questions about visibility, function and artistic intent.
Blog entry by Florence Reidenbach – in Berlin; Thursday, September 15, 2011.
The show of Berlin-based artist Sarah Illenberger at Gestalten is timed to coincide with the release of her first monograph and provides an opportunity to see the artist’s meticulously hand-crafted 3D-illustrations, as well as some photographic prints… [read on…]
Blog entry by Florence Reidenbach – in Berlin; Sunday, September 4, 2011.
Heit, a new “hidden” exhibition space, opened last Sunday in the basement of a residential building on Eichendorffstraße. Their first show Auch wir waren in Arkadien (We were also in Arcadia) is a photography show exhibiting the work of four young Berlin artists.
Rachel de Joode’s studio, a large room in an old Berlin apartment, is filled with a universe of things. An ordered universe of things. On shelves lined in…[read on]
The neighborhood of Tophane has carved itself out as a petite art’s distract within the western side’s new city (complete with it’s own Art Walk Guide boasting a modest 11 destinations…[read on]
Blog entry and photos by SP Williams– in Berlin; Monday, May 16, 2011.
With a jogger, a bottle, and a puddle on the street as it’s actors, the stories unfold either with an absurd suspense, an illusion of finality, or a feeling of unending entrapment.
Blog Entry by SP Williams– in Berlin; Saturday, April 23, 2011.
Hänninen’s approach is obviously of a conceptual nature: through digital processing, color values are removed from the original color photographs of the subject, so that the-now black-and-white photographs serve as the ground for the painting’s components.
Wil Murray is a Canadian painter currently living in Berlin. I recently met with him at his studio in the the cavernous former DDR radio station, to discuss his upcoming exhibition,…[read on]
