Posts Tagged ‘Artist’

KARLA MARIE BENTZEN: Dirty Fingers

Blog Entry by Adam Roche – in Berlin; Tuesday, April 12, 2011.

Bentzen has produced a number of new drawings which will be displayed alongside a large, sight-specific wall piece. Her geometric shapes will also leak onto the gallery windows, heightening the sensation of being part of Bentzen’s surreal world.

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LORNA MACINTYRE: Turbulent Nature

Blog Entry by Danielle Griffin – in Berlin; Saturday, April 2, 2011.

Lorna MacIntyre is a Scottish mixed-medium artist. Her current exhibition at Galerie Kamm is titled “A Tree of Night,“ named after a collection of short stories by Truman Capote. The work featured in the exhibition is meant to capture the dark, turbulent and often violent aspects of nature, and uses different mediums and processes.

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EDOUARD BARIBEAUD: Der Flug Der Eule

Blog Entry by SP Williams – in Berlin; Friday, April 1, 2011.

“I often stroll around in untouched landscapes, no man’s land, featuring unfinished buildings, places that are out of time and heterotopic. For me these are places at a crossroads of diverse sensibilities. They radiate a universal and timeless mood, to drift one’s soul. Here I collect images and do sketches and take photographs right on spot. The dreamlike imagination creates images that precede cognition.”

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Dahn Vo: Killing for Culture

Blog Entry by Danielle Griffin – in Berlin; Saturday, March 26, 2011.

Dahn Vo was born in Vietnam, grew up in Denmark, and is now based in Berlin. His photographs blend the everyday with the unusual, and the public with the private aspects of life.

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IVONNE DIPPMAN: Au Revoir Ivonne

Blog Entry by SP Williams – in Berlin; Thursday, March 24, 2011.

Flabby, often angry men running to, or away from friends or enemies. There’s more story outside picture boundaries and i’m dying to hear it. Born in 1981 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany, Ivonne lives and works in Tel Aviv and Berlin, Germany.

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HABEN UND BRAUCHEN: What does art need?

Blog Entry by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Sunday, March 20, 2011.

Based in Berlin, a temporary exhibition featuring Berlin artists, has ignited a furious debate about the promotion and funding of art in the city. The exhibition is slated for a June 2011 start, and über-curators Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA, PS1), Christine Macel (Centre Pompidou) and Hans-Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery) will oversee it. An Open Call for participants was issued in October, and many artists chose to boycott it. [read on…]

LEAP: Protocol Inaugural Exhibition

Blog Entry by Monica Salazar – in Berlin; Thursday, March 17, 2011.

“We want to evaluate the direct and interconnected relationship between the artwork and the space, to transcend its physical borders by engaging with the city outside” they explain. Through experimental performances, research and exhibitions, Leap is a new and promising hybrid space for Berlin’s electronic art and performance scene.”
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SHIRIN NESHAT: I Know Something About Love

Blog Entry by Adam Roche – in Berlin; Tuesday, March 15, 2011.

Examines the theme of love through the lenses of gender, probably as established and enforced since the 1979 islamic revolution in Iran. In her two- channel video work, Fervor, 2000, Neshat seems not only to highlight the frustration and helplessness of Iranian women in this paridigm, but also to demonstrate how the negative view of love within the revolutionary culture affects the natural human feelings. [view all images…]