Interview by Josie Thaddeus-Johns – in Berlin; Saturday, Oct. 03, 2015.
Flaneur is a magazine that’s not really a magazine. A collection of literary, photographic and artistic ‘fragments’, each issue focuses on a single street in a different city. How does a street become an intersection, a meeting point or physical manifestation of the stories that have happened there?…[read on…]
Interview by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Tuesday, Sep. 22, 2015.
The current exhibition at Johnen Galerie is a well spaced, careful collection of drawings and paintings on wood, cardboard and canvas by the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Nara’s work is charismatic and yet elusive in style. He paints large eyed though slightly sinister children…[read on…]
By Alan Smart // Sept. 16, 2015
Over Skype, I spoke with Fred Scharmen of the Working Group on Adaptive Systems from his Baltimore studio to discuss his latest “speculative utopian design proposal” for a Nonhuman Autonomous Space Agency…[read on]
Interview by Alena Sokhan // Sept. 15, 2015
French sculptor and artist Caroline Mesquita is using the large space in the basement of the Carlier|Gebauer as a studio for the last few months, creating large humanoid figures out of metal, scattered throughout the…[read on]
The Icelandic Pavilion, transformed into a functioning mosque by Christoph Büchel, was closed down on the 22nd of May, only 2 weeks after the preview opening, causing an immense controversy. The Mosque is situated in the Santa Maria della Misericordia church…[read on…]
Interview by Alena Sokhan in Berlin // Sept. 02, 2015
With its second exhibition, NOME Gallery is already building up an impressive reputation for bringing bold, politically engaged new media art to Friedrichshain. The first…[read on…]
Interview by Arielle Bier – in Berlin; Monday, Aug. 31, 2015.
Over the last seventeen years, e-flux became the ‘go-to’ platform for information and exchanges between art and academia worldwide with a readership of 90,000+ visual arts professionals. Russian artist Anton Vidokle initially conceived the project as a mailing-list for promoting exhibitions…[read on…]
Interview by Arielle Bier, Photos by Alexander Coggin – in Berlin; Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015.
The inimitable Peaches strikes again! The transgressive cult queen of electro-clash made waves in Berlin this summer with a fierce appearance at the YOSISSY! Festival, revelling in the one of her favorite home bases before re-igniting the flame under her vajazzled bodysuit…[read on…]
Interview by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015.
Artist-run project space Scotty Enterprises was founded in 2006 in Kreuzberg and played a vital role in this year’s Project Space Festival, earlier this month. What sets this space apart from others of its kind is that it is collaboratively run and organized by 15 artists…[read on…]
Interview by Celia Wickham – in Berlin; Monday, Aug. 10, 2015.
For Julia Baylis and Mayan Toledano, their feminist fashion line and creative project Me and You has provided them a space to create a refreshing and emboldening alternative to the commonly oppressive and destructive modes of female representation…[read on…]
Interview by Göksu Kunak – in Berlin; Thursday, Aug. 06, 2015.
Sleek surfaces, pastel colors, minimal forms and abstract ideas; small head ventilators, watermelons, kitsch waterfall posters. A vibraphone played by a classical musician wearing old-school roller skates transforming into a performer with white sneakers sampling 90s hip hop live in another space…[read on…]
Interview by Marta Jecu – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jul. 30, 2015.
At the Nordic Pavilion, which, for the first time, will be represented only by Norway, Katya Garcia-Anton in collaboration with Antonio Cataldo, curated the work of Camille Norment. Relating to the concept of dissonance, which according to the exhibition’s press release inspired the work in ‘a sonic, cultural and individual way’…[read on…]
