‘Freiraum Kunst,’ the two-week temporary exhibition in Schloss Bellevue, was a missed opportunity to back up words with action. “A stable democracy must be able to…[read on]
Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ has been on my mind lately. I like thinking about her monster; what it means to be feared, what happens when animation teeters over into existence…[read on]
In collaboration with TBA21, the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid presents ‘Pedagogies of War,’ an exhibition by Ukrainian artists Roman Khimei and…[read on]
In a time before social media, queer publications offered a lifeline to those isolated within their small towns. They were a source of escape for many young people and, in some cases,…[read on]
Some words are meant to be read. Others, insists Shilpa Gupta, must be walked through. In her current solo exhibition, ‘What Still Holds’ at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin,…[read on]
A massive shipping crane and a set of bleachers towered out of the water, moored somewhere in the middle of Venice’s lagoon. A subwoofer droned through the pouring rain, its…[read on]
It’s been over a decade since Germany has held an extensive survey of the Los Angeles-based artist Richard Hawkins’ work. After an Austrian iteration of ‘Potentialities’ at Kunsthalle Wien,…[read on]
Vienna’s Klima Biennale opened this April under the theme ‘Unspeakable Worlds,’ with a host of exhibitions and events across the city. Examining the complexity of the climate crisis,…[read on]
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]
