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THE WEEK Feb. 10 – 16, 2014

Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 EIGEN + ART LAB LADA NAKONECHNA Exhibition: Feb. 11 – Feb. 15, 2014 Opening Reception: Tuesday, Feb. 31; 5-9pm Ehemalige Jüdische Mädchenschule, Auguststraße 11-13 JOHANN KÖNIG “#1986” – MICHIEL CEULERS, PAUL CZERLITZKI Exhibition: Feb. 12 – Mar. 08, 2014 Opening Reception: Tuesday, Feb. 11; 6-9pm Dessauer Straße 6-7 […]

Interview // Tanja Ostojić: The Eurosceptic

Interview by Xandra Popescu – in Berlin; Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013.

The work of Yugoslav born artist Tanja Ostojić has piqued my interest many years ago. Her work draws inspiration from her own experience as a non-European Union citizen, a traveller and female artist…[read on…]

THE WEEK, November 04 – November 10, 2013

Tuesday, Nov. 05, 2013 NEUE NATIONALGALERIE MICHAEL KUNZE in conversation with SUSANNE TITZ Talk: Tuesday, Nov. 05; 7pm Potsdamer Straße 50 (click here for map) PRAXES Tirdad Zolghadr and Sven Anderson in conversation with Gerard Byrne Talk: Tuesday, Nov. 05, 2013; 7pm Alexandrinenstrasse 118-121 (click here for map) Wednesday, Nov. 06, 2013 LAGE EGAL #NACHTWACHE:… Read more »

Interview // Discreet Architecture: Lisbon’s Architecture Triennial PART1

Article by Marta Jecu – in Lisbon; Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.

The recently opened 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennial, Close, Closer, aims to question the borders of the discipline, open it toward immediate civic use and a reactive criticism and distill the comprehension of architecture into that of a vital spatial practice correlating to the quotidian. With its luxurious and deserted charm…[read on…]

The Anthropocene Series // After Year Zero, Geographies of Collaboration Since 1945

Article by Jazmina Figueroa – in Berlin; Friday, Oct. 04, 2013.

The current exhibition, After Year Zero – Geographies of Collaboration Since 1945, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt consists of a collection of footage, texts, and collected information based on global decolonisation with universal themes relating to post colonialism after the second world war. The artists’ pieces within the exhibition work as a collaborative response…[read on…]

Exhibition // Nicky Broekhuysen’s Potency Filled Things

Nicky Broekhuysen - "Rock Painting Sites (1)" (2013), pigment print on Hahnemüle Museum Etching Paper, 111 x 137,4 cm; photo courtesy of Dittrich & Schlechtriem

Article by Sarah Gretch – in Berlin; Wednesday, July 10, 2013.

In a world of hierarchies and borders, art is a way of reeling in, containing this chaos, placing symbols in objects of sensual and ideological power. As a universality of forms, art integrates perspectives in exposing, studying, and perhaps explaining this peculiar state of things…[read on…]

THE WEEK, April 15 – 21, 2013

Jens Hanke – “o.T. (No two minds think alike)”; Galerie Hunchentoot Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2013 REH KUNST “I kill you before I leave” – CLAUS LARSEN Exhibition: Apr. 18 – 28, 2013 Opening Reception: Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2013; 6pm Kopenhagener Straße 17 (click here for map)  Thursday, Apr. 18, 2013 BERLIN FILM SOCIETY “The house… Read more »

NICK CAVE’S HEARD•NY

Blog post by Liberation Iannillo – in New York; Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2013.

For HEARD•NY artist Nick Cave created 30 life-sized horses that will be on display in Vanderbilt Hall, that is, when they are not roaming around Grand Central and the Main Concourse…[read on…]

New Kids of the Block

Article by Andrea Ongaro – in Berlin; Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2013.

TANAS is a space for contemporary Turkish art, that present itself as a connecting platform between artists and an international audience. Collaborating with Turkish cultural actors, TANAS follows and presents the rapid development in the Turkish cultural scene of the last two decades. This is…[read on…]

Kandis Williams

by Elizabeth Feder // Aug. 7, 2012

When exploring Kandis Williams; studio, one is struck by the incongruous balance between the pensive balance between the pensive quality…[read on]

Open Call: Art Dubai’s 2013 Residencies

Magdi Mostafa (2012 A.I.R. Dubai Resident Artist) - "The Sound Element" (2012), Installation, Bastakiya

Blog post by Anna Purcell – in Berlin; Sunday, July 29, 2012.

Art Dubai, Delfina Foundation, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, and Tashkeel collaborate to organize Artists-in-Residence (A.i.R) Dubai, an annual residency programme which supplies artists and curators with the opportunity to be based in Dubai before and during Art Dubai and Art Week every March.
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dOCUMENTA (13)

Article and photos by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Tuesday, Jun. 12, 2012.

With Carloyn Christov-Bakargiev’s slew of statements regarding the emancipation of strawberries and the need to divest ourselves of our anthropocentric perspective in the run-up to documenta (13), one was left wondering what her actual concept would be. Upon entering the main building, the Fridericianum, the answer was there: very little…[read on…]