Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Jun. 09, 2017
documenta 14 will open its doors for the second time this year, in Kassel on June 10th, under less than glowing reviews. After the first segment opened on April 8th in Athens, the exhibition has…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Apr. 17, 2017
Isaac Penn is a fibre artist, textile designer and clothier originally from Canada but now based in Berlin. Penn’s pixelated weaves slow down time. Penn uses an array of images, all familiar in our daily visual…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Mar. 21, 2017
Lena Henke’s contemporary sculptures solicit masculine compositions from Brutalism to Surrealism to Freudian theory. Yet Henke floods, drowns and ignites a fierce femininity in…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Jan. 04, 2017
Canadian artist Char Davies pioneered the genre now known as immersive virtual reality (VR) in the 1990s. Davies built the famous ‘Osmose’ (1995), a fully immersive artwork that changed the role of the user in radical…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Oct. 17, 2016
Light regulates us. It allows us to understand the passage of time; we see light as energy indicating a life force. Brenna Murphy transforms light into pixels. Her works may never live in our own atmosphere but our eyes…[read on]
Article by Penny Raffery in Berlin // Sep. 14, 2016
We live in a world where work is precarious and exploitative. Using Facebook in our free time allows data-mining economies to profit while we sit idly skimming feeds because we are either overworked or out of work…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty // Aug. 26, 2016
Pastel-hued breasts, hair etched into painted canvases, stealth desert snakes and over-sized hands melt seamlessly together. A sex-conjoined animal and human in a lucid dream-like state are some…[read on]
Interview by Penny Rafferty // Apr. 06, 2016
The body in art has always been a contested issue as far as representation, but it is also central to how we understand our identities today through gender, race, sexuality and ethnicity. People use the body as a…[read on]
Interview by Penny Rafferty, Photos by Ériver Hijano – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2016.
At every opening held at Sexauer gallery you hear a whispered or hushed question: “Have you seen the salon?” of the Regardless of the answer, an enthusiastic exaltation of the space follows. The home is..[read on…]
Interview by Penny Rafferty – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 29, 2015.
In recent decades many artists have turned their studios into offices from which they organize a multiplicity of operations and interactions. Others use the studio as a quasi-exhibition space, or abandon it completely for a flexible and mobile laptop…[read on…]
Interview by Penny Rafferty – in Berlin; Monday, Feb. 01, 2016.
Hatsune Miku is the Japanese sweetheart that’s hitting stages all over the world, albeit digitally. The 16 year old, Lolita-styled, sugar-pumping, singing synthesizer application developed by Crypton Future Media has become a world famous pop idol. With her long turquoise hair and catchy lyrics she is dubbed the first humanoid…[read on…]