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Fantasy // Private as Public: An Interview with Lena Henke
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]
Fantasy // History and Myth: An Interview with Louis Henderson
Article by William Kherbek in Berlin // Mar. 17, 2017
The interaction of history, myth and fantasy have long been key subjects in the filmic practice of artist Louis Henderson. His film, ‘The Sea is History’ (2016), taking its title from a poem by the British-St. Lucian Nobel laureate…[read on]
Words // ‘Writing Pictures – Picture Writing: Chinese Poster and Book Design Today’ at Kunstbibliothek
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Mar. 14, 2017
To the linguistically untrained eye, an exhibition of graphic design in foreign characters will necessarily appear artistic rather than didactic. In the current show at Kunstbibliothek, ‘Writing Pictures…[read on]
Spotlight // Beatriz Díaz Ceballos
Article by Lisa Birch in Berlin // Mar. 13, 2017
Beatriz Díaz Ceballos is a Valencia-based, Spanish artist whose enigmatic sculptures create ties between socio-cultural activity and literary creativity and poetry. She tends to work within small formats, creating intricate…[read on]
Words // ‘Shot him in the face’ at KW: An Interview with Adam Pendleton
Article by Candice Nembhard in Berlin // Mar. 10, 2017
In line with KW’s goal to create a programme that investigates dialogue as a profoundly political act, Adam Pendleton’s exhibition ‘Shot him in the face’ is an attempt at dealing with the complexity of language, by…[read on]
Words // If You Feel You Need or Want Art, Take It: An Interview with Lawrence Weiner
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Mar. 6, 2017
Five years ago Lawrence Weiner asked me if I liked whisky. We were at a dinner for his exhibition ‘Concentricity Per Se’, which we had just mounted at a gallery in Berlin. I said I did (I do), and found my large empty…[read on]
Words // L.A. Art Book Fair: An Interview with Gagosian Gallery’s Ben Lee Ritchie Handler
Article by Liam Casey in Los Angeles // Mar. 3, 2017
Between February 23-26, the lines snaking down the sidewalk on 1st Street in Little Tokyo heading towards the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA weren’t in fact for a beloved bowl of savory ramen, but rather…[read on]
Words // Adrian Piper’s ‘The Probable Trust Registry’ at Hamburger Bahnhof
Article by Lisa Birch, Photos by Sandra Camey in Berlin // Feb. 28, 2017
‘I Will always be too expensive to buy.’, ‘I will always mean what I say.’, ‘I will always do what I say I am going to do.’. These were the statements that the…[read on]
Hanne Lippard
by Göksu Kunak // 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]