Sun pours into Dafna Maimon’s Kreuzberg studio on a spring day in March, as we greet each other and prepare for our conversation about the role of the abject in her practice, which encompasses…[read on]
At Hua International, works by Marianna Uutinen, made 30 years apart, manifest and indulge in many things, of which the body is one. Though the artist herself would not necessarily use the term abject…[read on]
Jagoda Bednarsky is known for her large-scale paintings of other-worldly, dreamy landscapes, where body parts merge with nature. Breast mountains, cockerel flowers, personified moons, flora and fauna coalesce …[read on]
Abjection and power go together like Deleuze and Guattari, but it’s not always clear which one is in charge. Power dynamics lie at the heart of human relationships, but they’re often invisiblized…[read on]
Abjection often conjures images of horror—filth, ugliness, death—in their most visceral, corporeal form. Yet what we tend to neglect are abject forms of the mind…[read on]
French feminist philosopher Julia Kristeva opens her 1980 essay on abjection, entitled ‘Powers of Horrors,’ as follows: “There looms, within abjection, one of those violent, dark revolts of being…[read on]
Béla Pablo Janssen’s ‘Theater der Sonnenzuwendung’ is, on just about every level, an invitation—not only to see, but to inhabit. Filling out both floors as well as the stairwells of Aachen’s Neuer Aachener Kunstverein…[read on]
Dominique McDougal and Carro Sharkey’s three-part performance, ‘Did4luv’—a tragicomic dance solo performed by each of the dancers—debuted this month at Sophiensaele’s Tanztage…[read on]
Since 2021, Feireiss has been a visiting professor for transdisciplinary artistic education at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where he launched a series of discursive encounters in…[read on]
A dense mound of soil has risen from the glossy floorboards of the Guggenheim Bilbao. Framed with clean lines, not a speck of dirt out of place, this site-specific installation—Delcy…[read on]
Alexander Basil has created a cosmos. His instantly recognizable style and established color palette implicate the subject matter in a process of calm and sure scrutiny. Central to this cage…[read on]
