Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, May 9, 2012.
The space at Sur la Montagne (SlaM) Gallery on Torstrasse is split down the middle, with the work of Toronto-based artists Melissa Fisher and Teresa Aversa exhibited on either side. Aversa’s ‘Untitled (Flower Portraits) – an ongoing series of photos of fake flower bouquets, taken in cemeteries around Toronto and developed at Walmart – cover the walls adjacent to the gallery entrance. [read on…]
Blog post by Elizabeth Delfs – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 8, 2012.
The Spanish word for Zirkel, compass, brings together the concepts of measuring and anchoring, as well as of locating. The concept of the body as compass inspires a collaboration between artists Vanessa Enriquez and Ilya Noé who seek to use the full extent of their bodies through the shared artistic practice of drawing. [read on…]
On Sunday, May 20 from 1–4:30pm bpigs will present the third edition of Speed Portfolio Viewing at Verein für Kunst und Kultur am Rosa Luxemburg Platz in the L40 building…[read on]
Berlin // Thursday, May 3, 2012
On May 19, Berlin Art Link launches the ‘Night & Day’ Series, extending its international contemporary art platform into the Sur la Montagne project room on Torstrasse. The new series presents…[read on…]
Article by Jeni Fulton in Berlin // Apr. 29, 2012
Charlottenburg beckoned with one of three of Cerith Wyn Evans exhibitions at Galerie Daniel Buchholz – the other two are at the Schinkel Pavillion and at Galerie Neu’s Mehringdamm location. Entitled Derive,…[read on]
Blog post by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Saturday, Apr. 28, 2012.
A strong line-up for this year’s gallery weekend has implications for one’s sanity, footwear, and visual deciphering abilities (you know, when a piece stops being a piece by an artist, but starts blending into an underlying noise, so that all that is registered is “painting” or “neon” or “large-scale installation with a guillotine”). Actually, speaking of neon, there is rather a lot of it around at GW. Jonas Burgert, Andreas Golder, [read on…]
Blog post and photos by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 26, 2012.
Miami’s Charest-Weinberg Gallery is currently host to ‘Eclipse’, an exhibition by Berlin-based artist Hannes Bend. In 1972, the Broward Artificial Reef Inc. Company (BARINC) began dumping car tires off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, in the hopes that they would foster marine life through the introduction of a manmade reef. Comprised of close to 2,000,000 tires today [read on…]
Blog post by Marie-Louise Crona – in Berlin; Sunday, Apr. 22, 2012.
On the 25th of April Momentum Berlin will launch their new public video art space called ”Sky Screen”. From from 10pm – 4am every night the space on Rosenthaler Platz will become a public art space, encouraging people to shift their view of the popular intersection and “look up”.
Blog post by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Friday, Apr. 20, 2012.
Franziska Holstein has a thing for the seventies. Her large-scale diptych vibrates with geometric lozenge-like forms in that decade’s favourite semi-tone colours: washed-out blues, dirty greys, pinks and oranges.
Blog post by Elizabeth Delfs – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 19, 2012.
Sur la Montagne (SlaM) presents a series of exhibitions by North American artists for their new Artist-in-Residency Program Auberge sur la Montagne. A total of 9 artists will participate in this unique program which allows them to live, produce and exhibit their work at SlaM on Torstrasse. The series is curated by artist Drew Simpson, who is the newest member of the SlaM Collective. [read on…]
Blog post by Anna Smith – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 12, 2012.
Three artists, three different approaches to contemporary art, and several media are currently exhibited at Galerie Open in an exhibition titled “Details”.
