Interview by Göksu Kunak // June 19, 2019
Safe. It is a big lie to utter the word safe, while Black folks are being murdered by official dark-blues, while the word rape still exists…[read on]
Interview by William Kherbek // June 12, 2019
Algorithms are, increasingly, turning up in the strangest and most dangerous places. From the micro-targeting of advertising, to the production of news stories…[read on]
Interview by Ilyn Wong // May 31, 2019
For the Berliner Tanztage in March of this year, the performer Olympia Bukkakis presented ‘Gender Euphoria’, a performance-lecture-cabaret show that proposes drag as a way to experience not only a sense of euphoria…[read on]
Interview by Penny Rafferty // May 03, 2019
¥€$Si Perse is, in the words of its creators, “a fiction suit – a hyperstitional interface” that allows its wearers to enter into alternative narratives. This acts as both a point of departure from this world and a form of…[read on]
Interview by Emily McDermott // Apr. 09, 2019
Following what he calls a “full-on mystical experience” in 2016 in Helsinki, photographer Alec Soth pressed pause on his familiar routine of traveling, giving talks, hosting workshops and taking photographs…[read on]
Interview by Michelle Standley // Apr. 05, 2019
In honor of this month’s ‘Travel’ theme, we sat down with the New York and Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist Nina Katchadourian, whose work largely deals with the pleasures and pains of crossing borders…[read on]
Interview by Nina Prader // Mar. 26, 2019
Once again, Henrike Naumann is tasked with installing the last exhibition in a space before a change: ‘Ostalgie’ is the farewell show at KOW’s Brunnenstraße address. In this “Abrissparty” (demolition party),…[read on]
Article by Sarah Messerschmidt // Mar. 18, 2019
Aki Aora, a residency programme in Tulum, Mexico, cultivates a particular focus on the local, aiming to include, and possibly even highlight, those working at the regional level…[read on]
Article by Johanna Hardt // Mar. 15, 2019
Cao Fei’s film ‘Prison Architect’ uses the physical space of the prison as a metaphorical complex to reflect common understandings of freedom and captivity. More than presenting the prison as an actual site of…[read on]
Article by Sarah Messerschmidt // Mar. 13, 2019
Stephanie Hier often refers to the adage “falling down a rabbit hole” to describe lapses of time spent trawling the internet. The phrase, seemingly off-the-cuff, also describes her own work as…[read on]
Interview by Lucia Longhi // Mar. 01, 2019
Ewa Juszkiewicz’s work stems from a substantial failure in the history of art: the portrayal of women. Rather than the depiction of a person, portraits of women – especially in the Renaissance – were a composition…[read on]
Interview by Johanna Hardt // Feb. 19, 2019
When was the last time you took a moment to close your eyes, breathe in deeply and listened to what is around you? This question is not an unfamiliar one. It is often wielded by those that like to remind us…[read on]