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Jens Hanke’s “Island Me” at Galerie Hunchentoot

Jens Hanke

Article by Anna C. Purcell – in Berlin; Monday, Jun. 25, 2012.

In his new series “Island Me,” Berlin-based artist Jens Hanke presents pieces that challenge the conventions of traditional charcoal-drawings. On large paper primed with bone glue, Hanke creates fantastical landscapes, often creating a sense of ambiguity that allows the viewer to have an intensely personal experience…[read on…]

Anthony McCall : Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture at Hamburger Bahnhof

Anthony McCall at Hamburger Bahnhof; photo: Chloé Richard

Article by Alison Hugill, photos by Chloé Richard and Olivier Toggwiler – in Berlin; Friday, Jun. 22, 2012.

British artist Anthony McCall began working with ‘solid light’ films in the 1970s. His simple projections, emphasizing the sculptural qualities of light beams, were at this time exclusively projected horizontally. The artist used a standard 16-mm cinema projector to transmit 2-dimensional drawings onto a wall. The dark gallery rooms, filled with…[read on…]

48 Stunden Neukölln

48 Stunden Neukölln

Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jun. 20, 2012.

Last week I picked up a program for 48 Stunden Neukölln, the weekend-long arts festival taking place in Berlin’s southeastern Neukölln neighbourhood. The sheer number of exhibits, installations, performances and events on offer made any kind of systematic planning impossible and when the festival began on Friday night I was none the wiser about where to start…[read on…]

BMW Guggenheim Lab Opens in Prenzlauer Berg

Interior

Article by Anna C Purcell – in Berlin; Monday, Jun. 18, 2012.

The BMW Guggenheim Lab opened in Prenzlauer Berg’s Pfefferberg complex on June 15th, the second stop after New York on its six-year tour. The Lab will offer free programs to the public until July 29th, serving as a forum to discuss the key issues related to the shaping of modern cities. Though each topic revolves around the theme of contemporary urban issues, seminars cover everything from sustainability to the…[read on…]

Word from London

Glenn Ligon

Article and photos by Dina Münzfeld in London; Friday, Jun. 15, 2012.

The simple word Weighted turns a London-based private art collection’s exhibit into a wordy adventure. Curator Ellen Mara de Wachter orchestrates nine artists from the Zabludowicz collection in Weighted Words, a show that tackles the relationship between art and language and examines the latter’s function and status in cultures flooded with images…[read on…]

dOCUMENTA (13)

Thomas Bayrle, photo: Jeni Fulton

Article and photos by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jun. 12, 2012.

With Carloyn Christov-Bakargiev’s slew of statements regarding the emancipation of strawberries and the need to divest ourselves of our anthropocentric perspective in the run-up to documenta (13), one was left wondering what her actual concept would be. Upon entering the main building, the Fridericianum, the answer was there: very little…[read on…]

Night & Day Series #2: 404 NOT FOUND

Article by Anna C. Purcell, photos by Chloé Richard – in Berlin; Monday, Jun. 11, 2012.

On Friday, June 8th, Berlin Art Link presented the second installment of its Night & Day Series, 404 NOT FOUND, at TorStrasse’s Sur la Montagne. The six artists’ works functioned as a commentary on the challenges and antagonisms that exist between web works and conventional, gallery-ready art…[read on…]


Avenida del Progreso – DIANA ARTUS at Galerie Metro

Hannah Beck-Mannagetta,Diana Artus

Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Thursday, Jun. 07, 2012.

Diana Artus’ black and white photographs of cityscapes and architectural facades have a spectral, haunting quality from the start. Yet her technique of creasing, folding, reproducing and adding dimension to her recent works intensifies this element, making the buildings protrude and furrow into uncanny forms…[read on…]

New Berlin Painters to Launch First Exhibition in Berlin this Friday

Paul Vogeler - "Das Vaterland"

Interview by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2012.

The New Berlin Painters launch their first exhibition at Statt Berlin Gallery on June 8, 2012, featuring the works of Paul Vogeler and Moritz Hoffmann. Vogeler and Hoffman showcase their latest works in an exhibition accompanied by a catalogue, words from Jerry Saltz, a manifesto, among other elements…[read on…]


Inspiration / Appropriation / Theft

Article and photos by Anna Smith – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jun. 05, 2012.

Essays and Observations’ minimal website intrigued me into visiting the gallery and seeing the exhibition with the equally intriguing title “appropriation”. The website, like many gallery websites is sleek but unlike most of them, lacks images. It compensates for that strange lack of imagery with well thought out texts. After reading them, I started seeing this lack of visual stimuli as a challenge to first understand…[read on…]


Time and Openness

Article by Max Schreier, photos by Chloé Richard – in Berlin; Saturday, Jun. 02, 2012.

Aram Bartholl is an tech artists who makes objects by capturing electronic moments, developing them into classical forms, and using the most analog processes to create digital forms. His work falls into the avant garde not by its innovative methods, but rather by its means of handling the often difficult to tame medium of the web. When I visited Bartholl…[read on…]


Davide Balliano: DOGBITE

Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

The space at Berlin Kreuzberg’s Delloro Contemporary Art, run by Italian gallerist Rolando Anselmi, is a radiant setting for any exhibition: the fortress-like doors of this third-floor warehouse loft open onto an exquisite white space, with multiple floor-to-ceiling windows dispensing light from either side…[read on…]