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Julian Hoeber – “Kiss (lurid)”
by Melissa Steckbauer, Wendy Vogel // Aug. 26, 2011
Two perspectives on “Adult Contemporary: Family Romance”, the second edition of Kavi Gupta’s annual summer video series…[read on]

BAL and ICI present Project 35 at Soho House

Guy Ben-Ner - "Berkeleys Island"

article by Cate Smierciak – in Berlin; Tuesday, August 23, 2011.

In the age of fast, streaming internet video and ever-fewer, fledgling art cinemas bold enough to show video art, single-channel video work rarely finds itself publicly presented outside the gallery – perhaps wedged into the darkest corner, shielded from a din of chatting visitors by a flimsy curtain, or plopped into a cube within a cube, with passers by swinging in and out as dictated by interest or attention span…[read on…]

BERLIN ARCH LINK: Tricky Triangulations at Aedes Pfefferberg

Article by Elizabeth Feder – in Berlin; Tuesday, August 16, 2011.

And it’s two meters into the gallery before you have to idle and choose.

You could pivot to the left, which is thin and static in its grayness. You could pivot to the right and be enveloped in red text and an inundation of LCD screens. Or you could continue straight ahead and follow the light into a bright whiteness of carefully benign design. I pivoted to the left…[read on…]

On the Road Series: Brian Leo in New York City

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by Jessyca Hutchens // Aug. 7, 2011
Brian Leo’s work hits you like a wall of noise or, rather, a wall of noises. On any given wall, a multitude of brightly colored canvases vie for attention. The New York based painter has dubbed his style “Garage Pop…[read on]

On the occasion of “7 Homotopies (How One Becomes The Other)” by C.C.Hennix in Grimmuseum

cc hennix lecture

Article by Weronika Trojańska – in Berlin; Thursday, July 28, 2011.

Sound is everywhere. It is surrounding us, even when we don’t think about it, even when we do not hear anything, or rather…especially, when we do not hear anything. It comes from space, from ourselves, from our souls. The whole universe is composed from different sounds, which are produced by every single structure. “When we hear those vibrations our system of molecules vibrates with them”…[read on…]