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]
Article by Elizabeth Schippers // May 12, 2020
Isa Melsheimer’s work is made up of an agglomeration of discourses surrounding the man-made world and the organic world and exposes underlying assumptions regarding the centering of human…[read on]
Article by Hannah Carroll Harris // Apr. 22, 2020
As galleries scramble to reconsider the way audiences experience art in the wake of widespread institutional closure, it seems obvious that the world should turn to the country …[read on]
Article by Jacob Zhicheng Zhang // Apr. 10, 2020
It is not surprising to learn that Baden-Baden—a German resort town famous for its 19th-century bathhouses and so-called kurhäuser—has sponsored an exhibition on representations of bathing culture. The exhibition fittingly sees bathing as…[read on]
Article by Hannah Carroll Harris // Apr. 03, 2020
Brightly hued floating figures, disembodied heads and naked forms in states of relaxation and recline are the subject of fascination for Marlon Wobst in his latest solo exhibition …[read on]
Article by Hannah Carroll Harris // Mar. 27, 2020
A small wooden house sits at the end of a path next to a tree, where a woman braids her young daughter’s hair. Silhouetted by the setting sun, a man tends to firewood: to heat the stove, to feed his family…[read on]
Article by Denisa Tomkova // Mar. 20, 2020
If all goes well, the solo exhibition of Paris- and New York-based artist Lee Mingwei will open on April 19th at Gropius Bau. The expression of sharing, giving and spending time together is crucial in Mingwei’s work, as his practice often considers the role of the host…[read on]
Article by Bárbara Borges de Campos // Mar. 18, 2020
Jorinde Voigt’s delicate brass mobile ‘Contemplation 10’—circling in the staircase of König Galerie—is a mere preview of what the exhibition achieves.…[read on]
Article by Hannah Carroll Harris // Mar. 12, 2020
Being submerged in an underwater sound bath in the basement of a Berlin club may not seem like the most meditative experience, but somehow sitting on the floor alongside a hundred other people I…[read on]
Article by Léna Szirmay-Kalos // Mar. 09, 2020
At the opening performance of Kris Lemsalu Malone and Kyp Malone Lemsalu’s exhibition ‘Love Song Sing-Along’ at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, I find myself singing…[read on]
Article by Hannah Carroll Harris // Mar. 06, 2020
Hidden in the hinterhof of a GDR-era apartment block, Galerie Neu is an unexpected find. The former power station that would have once heated the stacks of surrounding flats…[read on]