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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Article by Elizabeth Schippers // May 26, 2020
Nine minutes of destruction flash across my laptop screen. Houses are shaking, entire cityscapes are engulfed first in flames, then in floods…[read on]
Article by Elizabeth Schippers // May 22, 2020
Studio Baustelle has opened its online show ‘Nebulous’, a group exhibition that explores our relationship with our body and the way it is apprehended and depicted. The …[read on]
