Article by Louisa Stark // May 7, 2018
Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs’ new show ‘Defying Gravity’ at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art opens with a dual deception. A monochrome video of a man on a ladder, reminiscent of a silent film, is playing…[read on]
Article by Louisa Stark in Berlin // Mar. 19, 2018
A tension between the silly and the sombre runs throughout Falkenrot Prize winner Jana Gunstheimer’s exhibition ‘Luft nach oben’ at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien. The artist employs formal and controlled elements of…[read on]
Article by Jess Harrison in Berlin // Jan. 23, 2018
‘Empathic Creatures’, Barbara Kapusta’s first solo exhibition in Germany, presents a new body of work, combining film, sculptural objects and text, all of which studies how objects engage with each other and with us as spectators…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Dec. 04, 2017
While Isa Genzken’s ‘Issie Energie’ at König Galerie purports a connection between the artist and El Lissitzky for their elusive use of form and process, her latest show feels more reminiscent of Piero Manzoni: the exhibition…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Nov. 9, 2017
We are fascinated by infinity because we are not infinite. The loop, unlike us, never finishes, and neither does our fascination with the self-contained circuits of our world, from the hyper-saturation of…[read on]
Can an artist dictate the terms of social collaboration, or does he remain a recording device for situations he himself initiates? The Berlin-based artist Christian Jankowski…[read on]
On a bright afternoon in late October, a group of strangers met at Berlin-Hauptbahnhof. All were there to participate in Ligt’s most recent work, entitled With New Eyes,…[read on]
Ask a Berliner, and most will have a story about an encounter or glimpse of a large wild animal in the city. In Berlin Wildes Leben, part of the Überlebenskunst exhibition…[read on]
Blog entry by Samantha Manton – in Berlin; Saturday, August 20, 2011.
This week I was lucky enough to discover the conceptual work of Romanian artist Ioana Nemes following a visit to the Jiri Svestka Gallery in Schöneberg for their summer show ‘On the Threshold’. Three large wall pieces, each a different colour but each resembling a giant tombstone, dominate the brightest of spaces at the gallery, demanding a somewhat ominous sense of intrigue…
A contemporary art gallery serves a variety of functions; aims to accomplish a certain set of goals. Hopefully high on the list of priorities – which includes presenting beautiful…[read on]