Ventriloquist Sophie Becker brought her show, ‘Ronnie’s Big Idea’—a spellbinding two-part act that blended the comedic and the absurd—to the Sommerfest at Haus am Waldsee…[read on]
Nearly a decade after her exhibition ‘Margen de juego’ (2017) at the Galería Rosa Santos—where Andrea Canepa transformed the art space into a game board for bodily experience…[read on]
To play is to experiment. It is the way in which children learn social and cultural codes and adults relieve themselves of them. In Umut Azad Akkel’s exhibition at Haus am Lützowplatz…[read on]
Is art a game? It’s a question that comes up during a conversation with the artist Kasia Fudakowski about the ways in which audiences relate to her works. The notion of a game…[read on]
From the perspective of non-artists, nearly all artistic pursuits seem like opportunities to be playful. Creativity in its essence is about thinking beyond rational constraints…[read on]
Some words are meant to be read. Others, insists Shilpa Gupta, must be walked through. In her current solo exhibition, ‘What Still Holds’ at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin,…[read on]
A massive shipping crane and a set of bleachers towered out of the water, moored somewhere in the middle of Venice’s lagoon. A subwoofer droned through the pouring rain, its…[read on]
On the top floor of KodlContemporary, Bianca Argimón’s meticulous color pencil drawing ‘Hubris’ reads like a grotesque allegory painting. Stretched across the paper’s surface, the…[read on]
Forms of measurement are essentially arbitrary, the “foot,” after all, is based on a human foot. The “hand,” used to measure horses in the Anglosphere, is based on…[read on]
The focus on music in this year’s programming at the Hamburger Bahnhof is indicative of a larger trend that has been going on for a number of years, but has really picked up…[read on]
Returning from last week’s preview of the Venice Biennale, the question of scale is on my mind. In recent years, biennials have had a tendency to downplay themselves, opting for…[read on]
For the first time since the 1990s, Berlin is hosting a major exhibition by Marina Abramović, an artist who needs no introduction. Through her performance art, she has…[read on]
