Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Aug. 03, 2016
In May of last year, Belgian artist Lodewijk Heylen opened his large-scale public artwork ‘Concrete Evidence:1m’ in Hans-Baluschek-Park near Berlin-Südkreuz. The park, situated next to the Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände, is a main thoroughfare…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Jul. 24, 2016
Gully Havoc—a Berlin-based platform for new sound, text and print—will launch its first instalment of an ongoing anthology of international writers in Berlin. The book, titled ‘Your +1’, explores the writing of international visual artists and musicians based in Berlin…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // Jun. 06, 2016
The title of the 9th Berlin Biennale, The Present in Drag, taps into the blasé attitude and irritating pseudo-politics of the event’s curatorial program. Of course, this effect was not wholly…[read on]
The geometrical shapes and subdued colours of Katja Strunz’s works are aesthetically consonant with her high-ceilinged, brightly lit studio in Kreuzberg, as if they…[read on]
Interview by Alison Hugill // May 20, 2016
Romeo Alaeff is a Berlin-based artist from Brooklyn, New York. His zoomed out photographs of cityscapes, intricate detail drawings and abstract paintings all deal with a common theme: the many manifestations…[read on]
Interview by Alison Hugill in Berlin // May 19, 2016
Gods is a band and art collective with members based in Berlin, Cardiff, Cologne and Innsbruck. Despite the geographical divide, they manage to put out a steady stream of synth-pop and electronic music,…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin // Thursday, May 12, 2016.
Georgian photographer George Nebieridze will launch his first photo book ’15—a compilation of pictures taken over one year in Berlin—at Tante Nino Gallery in Rotterdam this weekend. The photographs…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill in Berlin // May 07, 2016
On Wednesday, May 11th, online network CONGLOMERATE TV will premiere its first block of original programming, produced by artists and filmmakers Sol Calero, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Derek Howard,…[read on]
Interview by Alison Hugill // May 03, 2016
With only a month to go before the opening of the 2016 Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, the event website offers a tantalizingly opaque series of suggestions about what we may or may not expect…[read on]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin // Sunday, May 1, 2016.
This Gallery Weekend I was joined by a group of visiting friends who had recently watched the movie Victoria. My carefully curated Kreuzberg art tour quickly degenerated into a I-spy of possible scene locations from the film, which was shot in one continuous take in about a 5km radius around Kreuzberg, the very same one…[read on…]
Article by Alison Hugill – in Berlin // Friday, Apr. 22, 2016.
Art Cologne celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, making it the world’s oldest art fair for modern and contemporary art. While in many ways quite conservative in its offerings, the spatial configuration of the event—taking up three floors of the Koelnmesse—invited a wide range…[read on…]
Interview by Alison Hugill // Apr. 19, 2016
Yishay Garbasz is a Berlin-based artist and photographer whose diverse body of work displays a fortuitous congruity. Often, her subject matter is trauma and its intergenerational inheritance, through…[read on]