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Interview // LSD. A new gallery model for Berlin?

Berlin Art Link interview with LSD Galerie, Alexei Kostroma, No Pain No Brain

Interview by Sarah Gretsch and Anna Russ – in Berlin; Monday, Aug. 19, 2013.

Situated on Potsdamer Straße among galleries like Krome and Thomas Fischer is the bright, young face of LSD Galerie. But LSD is not like its nearby counterparts; it marks the beginning of a growing trend in galleries adopting artist-run…[read on…]

Review // Street Level Symposiums at This Red Door

Berlin Art Link "This Red Door" event, photos by This Red Door

Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013.

In the sunny neighborhood of Prenzlauerberg, among the traditional European pale stucco apartment buildings that line the street is a strange, squat wooden bunker-like building with a bright red door. This is REH Kunst, which stands for…[read on…]

Exhibition // Jenny Jenny

Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Wednesday, Aug. 07, 2013.

If there is a dominant mode in photography nowadays, it is perhaps documentary photography. Even though it might sound obvious, a photograph is potentially always a document, but its reality should not be taken for granted. Until the 1970s, photojournalism was the primary mode of documentary photography. In the last decades, we…[read on…]

Exhibition // Subculture: Highculture Duet

Berlin Art Link, Jeremy Shaw, "Variation FQ", Schinkel Pavillon, photo by Nick Ash

Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Thursday, Aug. 01, 2013.

On Saturday, Jul 20th 2013, the faintly neoclassical garden of the Schinkel Pavillon was filled with people drinking to the closing of Jeremy Shaw’s exhibition Variation FQ. The setting could not have more suitable: the contrast…[read on…]

Exhibition // Accidental Accomplishments: Experiments with Space and Time.

Berlin Art Link article, Fabian Knecht, Institut für Raumexperimente

Article by Alexandra Borras – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jul. 23, 2013.

The opening at Institut für Raumexperimente presented a series of experiments by students who have participated in the last semester of Professor Olafur Eliasson´s class. The institute has a purpose to re-invent the educational strategies of art studies. Supported by the Einstein Foundation Berlin and affiliated with…[read on…]

Exhibition // ‘Paper’: Materiality to Meaning

Berlin Art Link Article, Saatchi Gallery, Marcelo Jácome, "Planos-pipas n17"

Article by Sarah Gretsch – in Berlin; Friday, Jul. 19, 2013.

PAPER, the current show at the Saatchi Gallery in London, adds its name to the slue of shows taking thematic cue from materiality (On Paper at Galerie Eigen + Art and Works on Paper at Momentum were two openings just within the last month in Berlin). Beyond names alluding to material…[read on…]

Exhibition // Pronouncing the Death of Berlin? Wir sind hier nicht zum Spaß!

Berlin Art Link Article, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Torsten Oetken, WMF

Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jul. 16, 2013.

The title of the exhibition reads as a provocation. “Unlike the present influx of international hipster dilettantes,” it seems to say, “we ‘original Berliners’ were serious about life, politics, and artistic collaboration.” When passive-aggressive anger is regularly surfacing over the ‘tourist problem’ in Berlin, the exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien offers one version of who these ‘authentic Berliners’ are and where their resentment…[read on…]

Exhibition // Outside is In, Hilma af Klint at Hamburger Bahnhof

Article by Rebecca Partridge – in Berlin; Sunday, Jul. 14, 2013.

If any one was doubting the velocity of the current wave of ‘outsider art’ (visible at documenta, at the Biennale in Venice and currently occupying London’s Hayward Gallery) this extensive retrospective of a prolific life’s work, ‘Hilma af Klint, a Pioneer of Abstraction,’, is confirmation that the outside is now well…[read on…]

Exhibition // Nicky Broekhuysen’s Potency Filled Things

Nicky Broekhuysen - "Rock Painting Sites (1)" (2013), pigment print on Hahnemüle Museum Etching Paper, 111 x 137,4 cm; photo courtesy of Dittrich & Schlechtriem

Article by Sarah Gretch – in Berlin; Wednesday, July 10, 2013.

In a world of hierarchies and borders, art is a way of reeling in, containing this chaos, placing symbols in objects of sensual and ideological power. As a universality of forms, art integrates perspectives in exposing, studying, and perhaps explaining this peculiar state of things…[read on…]

Exhibition // The Body and its Casings

Donna Huanca - "art and nude" (2013), cloth and canvas, 56cm x 56cm, copyright of

Article by Alena Sokhan – in Berlin; Saturday, Jul. 06, 2013.

The KSF Project Space emerged when Hannes Schroeder-Finckh and Nick Koenigsknecht turned their spacious Brunnenstrasse apartment into a project space in order to justify living there, Hannes jokes with a charismatic…[read on…]

Exhibition // Tobias Becker’s Abstract Geography

Tobias Becker "Felsen" (2013), concrete and acrylic paint, 40 x 50 x 50 cm; photo: Alex Marcus, courtesy of Galerie Hunchentoot

Article by Alexandra Borras, photos by Alex Marcus – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jul. 02, 2013.

Tobias Becker returns to Berlin with a series of maps, conceptual representations of how the world might exist when breaking with convention. Until the 24th August we will have the opportunity to view his solo exhibition Eines Tages at Galerie Hunchentoot. This new project will be focused on temporality and how…[read on…]

Exhibition // Domestic Utopias at NGBK

Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Saturday, June 29, 2013.

The exhibition Domestic Utopias presented at the NGBK deals with a very articulated topic and confronts different artistic positions around the concept of dwelling and the organization of domesticity. The idea is to underline how architectural issues reflect and interpret social utopias, proposing…[read on…]