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HANNE LIPPARD

Article by Göksu Kunak, photos by Ériver Hijano in Berlin // Feb. 28, 2017
Several years ago, Hanne Lippard and I were constantly bumping into each other on the corner of Adalbertstraße and Oranienstraße, close to…[read on]

Words // The Head and the Heart: Marcus Steinweg and Guests at BQ

Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Feb. 24, 2017
Printed in a closed circle, on one of the canvases in the foyer of Mitte’s BQ gallery: “But it is not something interior that makes an outward appearance nor something wholly other. It is something whose existence is…[read on]

NASAN TUR

Article by Rebecca Partridge, Photos by Ériver Hijano in Berlin // Feb. 21, 2017
For those who visited Nasan Tur’s recent solo show at Blain|Southern, ‘Funktionieren’, it would be easy to think that you have already been privy…[read on]

Words // ‘Actions Speak Louder Than Fonts’: Christine Wang at Galerie Nagel Draxler

Article by Mitch Speed in Berlin // Feb. 20, 2017
Of all the heart-wrenching scenes I’ve witnessed in two years commuting between New Jersey and New York city, one of the saddest was that of two Donald Trump supporters demonstrating outside the tycoon’s…[read on]

Words // Beneath the Laminate: Lexical Objects and Visual Poems in the Work of Heather Phillipson

Article by William Kherbek in Berlin // Feb. 11, 2017
“We like to put words on things”, Heather Phillipson says in her video ‘put the goat in the boat’. We like putting words on things, it’s true, but as Phillipson’s works suggest, things might not feel so warmly about…[read on]

Virtual Reality // Democracy Contained: Christoph Büchel at Hamburger Bahnhof

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Article by Nina Prader in Berlin // Feb. 10, 2017
It’s almost a joke: a storage unit as collector’s item. In this case, a two-story ‘Innovative Solution’s Space’ container houses an all-American polling station, set in a primary school. Swiss artist Christoph Büchel’s…[read on]

Virtual Reality // Utopia Folded in a Box: An Interview with Francisco Vidal

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Article by Marta Jecu in Lisbon // Feb. 07, 2017
The idea of a potent architecture (a box that not only contains, but also generates solutions) has been a favored utopia across the ages: a house that is mobile, turns into a vehicle and flies…[read on]

Virtual Reality // ‘The Unframed World’: An Interview with Banz & Bowinkel

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Article by Lisa Birch in Berlin // Feb. 07, 2017
New Haus der Elektronischen Künste (HeK) is presenting it’s innovative exhibition ‘The Unframed World: Virtual Reality as artistic medium’ until the 3. March 2017. The Basel-based foundation is…[read on]

Virtual Reality // A New World of Sensual Storytelling: An Interview with Michel Reilhac

Michel Reilhac: ‘Viens!’, Film still, 2015 // Photography by Laurent Quinkal // Courtesy of the artist

Article by April Dell in Berlin // Feb. 03, 2017
For a brief week in October last year, visitors to SomoS Art House in Kreuzberg were treated to a twelve minute glimpse into a playful and sensual dreamscape free from inhibitions and the spatial…[read on]

Virtual Reality // ‘Through You’: An Interview with Saschka Unseld and Lily Baldwin

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Article by Candice Nembhard in Berlin // Feb. 02, 2017
‘Through You’ is an experimental project, debuting at Sundance Film Festival, in which the virtual collides with the real. Filmmaker and dancer Lily Baldwin teamed with writer and director Saschka…[read on]

Virtual Reality // Cécile B. Evans: ‘Sprung a Leak’ at Tate Liverpool

Cécile B. Evans: 'Sprung a Leak' (still of 'Liberty' from video installation at Tate Liverpool), 2016 // Image courtesy of the Artist and Tate Liverpool

Article by Brit Seaton in Liverpool // Jan. 31, 2017
In her three-act-play installation ‘Sprung a Leak’, Cécile B. Evans provides a physical space of intertwined human and artificial intelligence…[read on]

Virtual Reality // Jon Rafman and Stan VanDerBeek at Sprüth Magers Los Angeles

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Article by Liam Casey in Los Angeles // Jan. 27, 2017
With European gallerists continually recognizing Los Angeles as an international and lucrative destination for contemporary art, it makes sense that the Sprüth Magers gallery, originally hailing…[read on]