Posts Tagged ‘Berlin Art Link Discover’

On Screen // Anri Sala’s Reverberations at Videoart at Midnight

Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Friday, Apr. 18, 2014.

Anri Sala‘s video art engages viewers with its soundscapes as much as its images. The music of Sala’s videos aren’t always separate soundtracks, but are often performances within the video, such as improvisation saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc‘s playing in Long Sorrow (2005), the first of Sala’s short films shown at this past Videoart at Midnight. …[read on…]

Announcement // ArchitectsParty Debut in Berlin

Berlin Art Link Discover, Photo courtesy of Monica Gasperini, Architetto

Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Sunday, Apr. 20, 2014.

ArchitectsParty is a series of cocktail party events in architecture studios in multiple cities, and is coming to Berlin this week for the first time. The parties are a chance for all of those in the architecture and design world to have a chance to network with design companies, architects, and architecture-lovers alike. …[read on…]

Announcement // 4th Annual Month of Performance Art

Berlin Art Link Discover, Art Work by Anna Julia Amaral; courtesy of MP-B

Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Saturday, Apr. 19, 2014.

Month of Performance Art (MPA-B) returns this May for its fourth year, this time with a new hub specially dedicated to the festival, the Ding Dong Dom – Das Theatre der Zukunft. The structure itself is described as embodying the “ephemeral nature of performance art,” as it is constructed from old windows and shipping containers by performance group Showcase Beat le Mot, architect Martin Kaltwasser, and volunteers…[read on…]

Announcement // The Pornographers Screening at Prince Charles

Berlin Art Link Discover, Art Work by Shohei Imamura; courtesy of Berlin Film Society

Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Friday, Apr. 18, 2014.

A entrepreneur with a porn business is a surprising choice for the protagonist of a film, particularly one from the 1960’s. But Japanese director Shohei Imamura‘s surreal story, The Pornographers (1966) features no conventions, as the twice Palme d’Or winning director has included other characters in the film such as a woman who believes her husband to be reincarnated as a fish…[read on…]

Exhibition // Despina Stokou’s Installation Paintings

Berlin Art Link Discover, Art Work by Despina Stokou; courtesy courtesy the artist and Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin, photo by Uwe Walter

Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2014.

Despina Stokou‘s work has been compared to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s in that they both execute colorfully layered paintings that operate at both minute and distanced viewpoints. But Stokou’s current show at Eigen + Art Lab is memorable in that viewing her painted works is like an archaeological dig through our collective knowledge of recent popular culture, and involves…[read on…]

Announcement // Amir Fattal’s Musical Resurrection

Berlin Art Link Discover, Art Work by Amir Fattal; courtesy of Amir Fattal

Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Saturday, Apr. 12, 2014.

Kunsthaus Bethanien will host a night of culminating work for artist Amir Fattal on Wednesday, April 16th. Shadow of Smoke Rings on the Wall, a book of his art accompanied by essays, will be presented and celebrated with a performance. The performance, titled…[read on…]