William Forsythe’s ‘Choreographic Objects’ provides the audience with a veritable fun house in which they can jump, crawl, balance precariously above the floor or, in other words, play. But unlike the other shows…[read on]
Ventriloquist Sophie Becker brought her show, ‘Ronnie’s Big Idea’—a spellbinding two-part act that blended the comedic and the absurd—to the Sommerfest at Haus am Waldsee…[read on]
Nearly a decade after her exhibition ‘Margen de juego’ (2017) at the Galería Rosa Santos—where Andrea Canepa transformed the art space into a game board for bodily experience…[read on]
To play is to experiment. It is the way in which children learn social and cultural codes and adults relieve themselves of them. In Umut Azad Akkel’s exhibition at Haus am Lützowplatz…[read on]
Is art a game? It’s a question that comes up during a conversation with the artist Kasia Fudakowski about the ways in which audiences relate to her works. The notion of a game…[read on]
From the perspective of non-artists, nearly all artistic pursuits seem like opportunities to be playful. Creativity in its essence is about thinking beyond rational constraints…[read on]
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Oct. 13, 2017
With the launch of its bi-monthly performance series Montag Modus, the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin has quickly become one of Berlin’s most exciting venues for performance art. Hosting an array…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Oct. 06, 2017
Shag carpet fills one room at Sprüth Magers in Berlin right now, a waxy plastic is emitted from the darkness and eight ambiguous lounging foam figures recline. Waiting for your own body to slip into them, or…[read on]
Article by Ilyn Wong in Berlin // Oct. 03, 2017
I first encountered the work of Dutch artist Melanie Bonajo several years ago in New York, through a series of photographs in which women’s bodies collectively asked questions about resistance,…[read on]
Article by Nat Marcus in Berlin // Sep. 28, 2017
Throughout all the varying theories of play in the last 150-odd years, regardless of discourse or discipline, it is often described as a kind of median, an interface by which the mind dialogs with the external world…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Sep. 22, 2017
Romanian choreographer Alexandra Pirici has enacted a number of her recent sculptural additions and ongoing actions in Germany over the last year, beginning with her contribution to the 9th Berlin Biennale,…[read on]
Article by Rebecca Partridge in Berlin // Sep. 21, 2017
Taking a moment on the bench outside Hamburger Bahnhof on a sunny Saturday afternoon, I witnessed the farcical scene of an elderly man attempting to enter the museum, being barred from…[read on]
