Article by Mitch Speed in Berlin // Jan. 09, 2017
Drones have made killing easier. True as this may be, recent studies have revealed that the screen’s simulation effect is no guarantee against the psychological ravages killers will encounter—even those who operate…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Jan. 04, 2017
Canadian artist Char Davies pioneered the genre now known as immersive virtual reality (VR) in the 1990s. Davies built the famous ‘Osmose’ (1995), a fully immersive artwork that changed the role of the user in radical…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Dec. 25, 2016
How can we capture and represent a changing world, caught in the moment of transition? In the work of Marwan Rechmaoui, a large floor-based black rubber map delineates the entire city of Beirut, sixty individual…[read on]
Franziska Pierwoss and Siska, two artists working both independently and in collaboration, met in Lebanon in 2007 when German-born Pierwoss visited the country…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Dec. 14, 2016
Beirut’s Temporary Art Platform is a curatorial platform that develops art projects relating to the public realm. T.A.P. supports and encourages art practices concerned with public space, urban and social design,…[read on]
Christiane Dellbrügge and Ralf de Moll invite us into their minimal, office-like Kreuzberg Wohnstudio – a space established for living and working. Finding the balance…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Dec. 05, 2016
How do we perceive the world as it changes around us, mediating the transition between before and after? How does this process bring with it new meaning, a new understanding of what came first?…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Nov. 30, 2016
I first encountered the work of Belgian-born Philip Aguirre y Otegui at this year’s Ireland Biennale, EVA International, being struck by his new installation ‘Cabinet Mare Nostrum’. Monotone blue, coffin-shaped boats…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Nov. 28, 2016
The textual, alphabetical characters spelling out subtitles also become acting, narrative characters in the films of Berlin-based Amelia Umuhire. As self-taught director, Umuhire represents the…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Nov. 27, 2016
Speech is perhaps the most direct form of communication available to the human race. By selectively using words that have been sourced from a vast vocabulary, any given person is able to express their thoughts and…[read on]
Article by Brit Seaton in Berlin // Nov. 25, 2016
Akademie der Künste’s exhibition ‘Uncertain States’ presents an contemporary and archival works, standing as artistic resistance against human crisis…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Nov. 21, 2016
As a premise, Embassy for the Displaced could seem like a bureau written into a Borges story: the design-based collective remains anonymous, and explicitly defines itself as an institution, a consulate general of…[read on]