On the top floor of KodlContemporary, Bianca Argimón’s meticulous color pencil drawing ‘Hubris’ reads like a grotesque allegory painting. Stretched across the paper’s surface, the…[read on]
The tendency to qualify photography as being made “by women” has always felt infantilizing. In the contemporary photo world, “photography by women” has become a genre in…[read on]
The focus on music in this year’s programming at the Hamburger Bahnhof is indicative of a larger trend that has been going on for a number of years, but has really picked up…[read on]
We made a well-sequenced Gallery Weekend route through Schöneberg, dressed only slightly differently than usual to feel like tourists and well-prepared to experience…[read on]
As sure as the seasons change, Gallery Weekend is here again. The day begins by emerging out of a May 1st-induced hangover, slapping on the SPF 50 and heading out the door…[read on]
Gallery Weekend arrives, fleeting as the falling cherry blossom that nestles into the cracks of the pavements in Mitte. Lit up in the sunshine, the galleries along Linienstraße…[read on]
For the first time since the 1990s, Berlin is hosting a major exhibition by Marina Abramović, an artist who needs no introduction. Through her performance art, she has…[read on]
The skeletons of collapsing buildings; shifting licks of light on water; insubmissive deathbed portraiture. Wandering through ‘Persistence of Vision’ at Gropius Bau, I feel…[read on]
Curated by Hera Chan, Marisa Phandharakrajadej, Arin Rungjang and David Teh under the title ‘Eternal [Kalpa],’ Thailand Biennale Phuket foregrounds a conception of time…[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…[read on]
‘Let us Believe in the Dawn of Spring’ is a group show curated by Anahita Sadighi and presented in her eponymous gallery. The multi-sensory immersive experience—the…[read on]
Sound as haptic, spatial and architectural experience remained in the spotlight this year at MaerzMusik, but the promising interplay between different senses was a case…[read on]
