Posts Tagged ‘exhibition review’
Tipping Points: ‘What Matters’ at Akademie der Künste
by Nadia Egan // Mar. 29, 2022
‘What Matters’ is both the question and statement of this year’s presentation of works by the Junge Akademie. In what is considered the most comprehensive display of works to date…[read on]
Hidden Pleasures: ‘Crush’ at Feld+Haus
by Nadia Egan // Mar. 25, 2022
‘Crush’ is above all an exhibition about desire and queer social exclusion. It reflects multiple journeys and speaks through more than one voice, as the works in the exhibition examine…[read on]
Inter-Connectivity: ‘Under the Viral Shadow’ at Art Laboratory Berlin
by Alison Sperling // Aug. 31, 2021
From artificial intelligence programming to slime mould topologies, the works presented cohere in the question of how forms of connectivity have been altered and are…[read on]
Performing the Feminine: ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’ at CFA Berlin
by Kristina Foster // July 8, 2021
By asking what form that modern muse might take today, the exhibition offers a shrewd new angle on the fraught relationship between figurative art and female iconography…[read on]
Interior Motives: Grace Weaver’s ‘Droop’ at Soy Capitán
by Noushin Afzali // June 18, 2021
“Grace Weaver went inside herself.” That is how the German art historian, Christian Malycha, begins the press release of Weaver’s latest exhibition at Soy Capitán…[read on]
Teenage Angst: Bunny Rogers’ ‘MS Agony’ at Société Berlin
by Samuel Staples // Jan. 29, 2021
In the latest exhibition ‘MS Agony’ by American artist Bunny Rogers, currently on view by appointment at Societé Berlin, Rogers grapples with identity and addresses…[read on]
Questioning the Social Body: Transmediale’s ‘The Eternal Network’ Exhibition at HKW
by Denisa Tomkova // Feb. 3, 2020
This year’s transmediale exhibition ‘The Eternal Network’ calls for more intimate relationships within the network, and for regaining more control, away from centralized digital…[read on]
Becoming an Earthworker: ‘Majnoon Field’ at Temporary Gallery Cologne
Article by Denisa Tomkova // Dec. 03, 2019
Rheim Alkadhi’s solo exhibition ‘Majnoon Field’ at Temporary Gallery in Cologne tells the story of the area of oil extraction and the international weapons trade in the Southern Iraq…[read on]
An Audible Exploration of Invisible Nature
Article by Sofia Bergmann // Aug. 16, 2018
In ‘A Grain Within a Cloud of Dust’ at Galerie im Turm, Gil Delindro makes the invisible visible—and audible. With the Algerian-Moroccan desert as his starting point, he extracts the location’s expansive yet…[read on]
Isabelle Graeff’s Photography Binds People and Politics
Article by Louisa Stark // Jun. 2, 2018
Across Sexauer gallery’s walls Isabelle Graeff’s photographs are arranged either singularly or in groups of twos and threes at different heights, in a style that reminds me of Wolfgang Tilmans…[read on]
Los Carpinteros Merge the Personal and Political
Article by Louisa Stark // May 15, 2018
‘El Otro, El Mismo / The Other, The Same’ at KOW is an exhibition that, as hinted by its title, can feel both contrasting and complimentary. The artist collective Los Carpinteros, made up of…[read on]