Melvin Edwards possesses a thoroughly enlivening process mania. Looking at the disciplined repetition of the pieces on view at his indispensable retrospective at the Fridericianum…[read on]
How is it possible to have a contemporary art festival in Latvia running for 15 years? The preview of Survival Kit 15 kicked off in a somewhat acerbic tone…[read on]
After the performance of ‘The Melancholic Melody of the New Economy’ at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, first-time director Ariel William Orah told an appreciative audience that 13 years ago, as a young migrant from Indonesia…[read on]
Going to an exhibition the morning after its opening night always feels like having missed the main event. But there is a melancholic beauty to it, too. A night just out of reach—the faint smell of smoke lingers…[read on]
The topic of rest, or rather the lack of it, has become ubiquitous. If you asked friends, colleagues or even strangers on the street about their daily lives, a common theme would likely emerge…[read on]
The two-year program ‘Thinking Like a Mountain’ launched earlier this year in the Bergamo province with its first instalment, featuring a site-specific installation by Sonia Boyce…[read on]
The best way to approach the TICK TACK exhibition ‘Streetspace Banger,’ hosted at the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, is to dive headlong into the effective eclecticism of the curation…[read on]
Reloading and re-launching the old and thorny debate on the shifting grounds of inclusion in contemporary art, ‘Foreigners Everywhere,’ curated by Adriano Pedrosa, explicitly sets…[read on]
Since 2008, Biennale Gherdëina—originally a fringe event of MANIFESTA 7, founded by Doris Ghetta in Ortisei and inspired by the ethos of the nomadic biennial…[read on]
Staged within an amphitheatre constructed inside the former power station of Halle am Berghain, ‘The Soul Station’—a monumental immersive installation by Berlin-based artist…[read on]
In one of her numerous self-portraits taken against the panorama of the Nuugaarsuk coastal point in South Greenland, Greenlandic-Danish artist Pia Arke…[read on]
There is a chance that upon entering ‘A Time in Pieces’ at Between Bridges in Berlin, the first thing visitors hear is the abrasive sound of air raid sirens that accompanies Lesia Vasylchenko’s…[read on]