Article by April Dell // Dec. 11, 2019
“Are we there yet?” asks a carved relief in the gallery wall. “There” in Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s exhibition ‘A Casual Mathematics’ can be found between the lines of her poetic…[read on]
Article by April Dell // May 10, 2019
Behind the grand wrought-iron doors of Gropius Bau’s first floor gallery, Chicago artist Theaster Gates presents the legacy of Johnson Publishing Company in an archival photo exhibition …[read on]
Article by April Dell // Sept. 27, 2018
Imagine the artist as a messenger. They transmit, decode, untangle and entangle the data feed of the everyday through familiar and unfamiliar means. ‘Strange Messengers’, the current group…[read on]
Walking into Heiner Franzen’s bright and spacious studio is like entering into a huge version of one of his drawing room installations. Rather than finding…[read on]
Article by April Dell in Berlin // Mar. 13, 2018
Khaled Hafez’s huge canvases are abstract playgrounds where ancient gods, glossy magazine bodies and comic superheroes meld together and take part in a rewritten narrative. In his multimedia practice, Hafez…[read on]
Article by April Dell in Berlin // Sep. 23, 2017
Artworks by 50 artists from the United Arab Emirates are on display at me Collectors Room in a survey of contemporary Emirati art that responds to questions of identity, belonging, and heritage. In the foyer of…[read on]
Article by April Dell in Berlin // Sep. 15, 2017
The new face of Berlin’s premier art fair opened yesterday afternoon on day two of Berlin Art Week, assembling Berlin’s leading galleries, celebrated artists, art world movers and shakers, and the art-loving…[read on]
Article by April Dell in Berlin // Sep. 13, 2017
The latest exhibition at Nome Gallery Kreuzberg, by artist duo Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles has the trappings of an adventure plot; stolen artefacts, dinosaur bones, undercover heists, and data leaks…[read on]
Article by April Dell in Berlin // Jun. 26, 2017
documenta 14 opened to the public in its hometown, Kassel, Germany, on June 10th, already laced with controversy and charged with the task of answering questions about the inclusion of this year’s…[read on]
Article by April Dell in Berlin // Apr. 30, 2017
On Friday evening, with a full, and perhaps too optimistic, schedule of openings planned for the night, I set off for my Mitte tour of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2017. Of course, a single night jammed…[read on]
Article by April Dell in Berlin // Thursday, Apr. 27, 2017
Inaugurating the new Kreuzberg home of Berlin’s NOME gallery is a series of works by James Bridle that continue the gallery’s curatorial standpoint at the intersection of art and technology. The exhibition…[read on]
Article by April Dell in Berlin // Feb. 20, 2017
As part of the CTM and Transmediale Vorspiel 2017 programme that partners the festivals with a diverse range of Berlin-based initiatives and venues, Thalamus Collective bring you the next…[read on]