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Anne Katrine Senstad: Light Writes Always in Plural

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Article by Sarah Corona – in New York; Tuesday, Apr. 08, 2014.

From Goethe to Octavio Paz, from James Turrell and Dan Flavin to Douglas Wheeler, they are all trying to get to one thing: light, in all its shapes and colours. Light as an object, as an architectural element. Light as a philosophical motto. Light as a…[read on…]

Interview // Nezaket Ekici: (After) Love at Last Sight

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Article by Anna Wallace-Thompson – in London; Tuesday, Apr. 01, 2014.

A recent retrospective of the Berlin-based performance artist in London marked 13 years of performative practice by Nezaket Ekici, including a three-day live performance and installation at Pi Artworks…[read on…]

Exhibition // Subtle Objectivity at Bauhaus Archiv

Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2014.

The current exhibition at the Bauhaus Archiv in Tiergarten, New Architecture! Modern Architecture in Images and Book, focuses on the production and display of architectural images in publication with a particular concentration on Walter Müller-Wulckow’s ingenious editorial vision…[read on…]

Art Fair // Snapshots of Armory Art Week

Article by Rebecca Loyche – in Berlin; Monday, Mar. 24, 2014.

New York City heralded the official start of the 2014 art season, as the Armory Arts Week’s 12 art fairs rose unscathed from the polar vortex hovering over most of the country…[read on…]

Interview // Yung Jake: The Performance of the Internet

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Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.

We currently exist in a highly performative time period enhanced, complexified, and rearranged by the Internet. Questions of localized identity, sexuality, and aesthetics are all thrown onto a flat neoglobalized plane of subjectivity. Yung Jake discusses the conception of Tumblr, the role of the artist as…[read on…]

Exhibition // Yinka Shonibare MBE at Blain | Southern

Article by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 21, 2014.

The massive space of Blain|Southern isn’t an easy one to fill. The hangar-sized rooms can dwarf installations and sculpture, the white vaulted ceilings overpower. But the bursts of tailored and saturated colour in Yinka Shonibare’s solo exhibition Making Eden fill the void with their crafted energy…[read on…]

Exhibition // #1986 at Johann König

Berlin Art Link, Features, Art Work by Michiel Ceulers; courtesy Johann König, photo by Roman März

Article by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014.

The title of the newest exhibition at Johann König doesn’t relate to the work of the duo show. Both artists on display were born in 1986 but the minimalist-looking works have more in common than their creators’ ages…[read on…]

Exhibition // Lens Based Sculpture at Akademie der Künste

Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014.

The Akademie der Künste is currently hosting the exhibition Lens Based Sculpture, which is set to explore contemporary sculpture’s relationship and indebtedness to photography and the ways in which photography has transformed sculpture as a medium. With over 200 displayed works by more than 70 international artists, Lens Based Sculpture develops the antiquated argument over…[read on…]

Exhibition // John Waters at Sprüth Magers

Article by AJ Kiyoizumi in Berlin // Feb. 10, 2014
John Waters‘ role can’t be limited to just one descriptive word: director, actor, professor, screenwriter, artist, comedian, bad influence, etc. Nicknames such as the “pope of trash” have tried to sum up his public persona, but looking at his art might be a better way to attempt to understand him…[read on…]


Exhibition // Art Hack Day 2014

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Article by Graham Haught – in Berlin; Friday, Feb. 07, 2014.

On Wednesday January 29th, transmediale launched Art Hack Day at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Art Hack Day – curated in conjunction with L.E.A.P. – took place within the framework of a 48-hour “challenge,” wherein…[read on…]