Reviews
A Scientific Motherhood: ‘The Camille Diaries’ at Art Laboratory Berlin
by Judith Vallettee // Sept. 24, 2020
Art Laboratory Berlin welcomed their newest exhibition series The Camille Diaries this last Thursday. The Camille Diaries creates a discourse on the intersection between conceptions…[read on]
Turning the Tables: The 11th Berlin Biennale
by Tamaris Vier // Sept. 16, 2020
This year’s Berlin Biennale interrogates many forms of oppression enacted globally, coaxing to the surface seldom-heard stories of the marginalized, forgotten and violently silenced…[read on]
Achieving Latour’s Terrestrial: ‘Down to Earth’ at Gropius Bau
by Sofia Bergmann // Aug. 25, 2020
We can detect the names of logos more easily than leaves on the ground, and we kill organisms in order to keep others alive. But what does it look like to achieve true symbiosis between earth and…[read on]
Reflecting the Present: ‘local talent’ at Sprüth Magers
by Judith Vallette // Aug. 18, 2020
At the entrance of the exhibition ‘local talent’, presented at Sprüth Magers and curated by artist Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson’s orb of colorful, pulsating light ushers visitors into the space,…[read on]
Contra Western Conceptions of Time and Nature: Leiko Ikemura’s ‘From East to East’ at Kunsthalle Rostock
by Judith Vallette // Aug. 13, 2020
Kunsthalle Rostock, located two hours by train from Berlin, is currently showing Leiko Ikemura’s ‘From East to East’. The exhibition focusses on the influential Japanese-Swiss artist – who has lived in Germany…[read on]
Political Art for an Uneasy Time: ‘John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite’ at Akademie der Künste
by Jacob Zhicheng Zhang // Aug. 3, 2020
John Heartfield, a renowned German Dada artist, currently has a long overdue retrospective on view at the Akademie der Künste (AdK), Berlin. The exhibition is a culmination of the digitisation and publication of…[read on]
The Uncomfortable Edges of Spectatorship: Elmgreen & Dragset’s ‘Short Story’
Article by Elizabeth Schippers // July 21, 2020
It is quiet in the gallery when I enter: As I walk around the ground floor, a cluster of paintings and sculptures by upcoming artists are mingled with impressive names, part of the König’s fixed collection…[read on]
In Defense of Tenderness: Rohkunstbau Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
Article by Elizabeth Schippers // July 17, 2020
At 9:45 am, I step onto a bus on Museum Island, right in the heart of Berlin. A few minutes later, the landscape changes. Old Germanic buildings make way for stretches of open fields. Rows of flats…[read on]
Claudia Chaseling’s Spatial Paintings: On Mutants in a Post-Nuclear World
Article by Elizabeth Schippers // July 06, 2020
When I enter the space where Claudia Chaseling’s solo exhibition ‘mutopia 5’ is held, I am first asked for my name and intentions and then escorted through the metal detector. It is not every day…[read on]
Cultural Transfer: ‘L’Abécédaire de Georges Adéagbo’ at Barbara Wien Gallery
Article by Erin Honeycutt // July 03, 2020
‘L’Abécédaire de Georges Adéagbo’ at Barbara Wien is the gallery’s second solo exhibition by Benin sculptor Georges Adéagbo. The title comes from ‘L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze’ (The ABC of Gilles Deleuze),…[read on]
Anri Sala’s Audible Architecture Presented as Part of Online Program Kino Siemensstadt
Article by Judith Vallette // June 9, 2020
Scharaun, an exhibition space focused on promoting the intermingling of art and architecture, debuted its first of a weekly rotating 13-week online exhibition of video artists…[read on]