Posts Tagged ‘Berlin artist’
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]
Song-Ming Ang
by Jessyca Hutchens // June 20, 2012
When I walk into Song-Ming Ang’s studio at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (where he was a resident for one-year until very recently) the music-art…[read on]
ON THE ROAD SERIES: A young Spanish painter takes over the Lower East Side
Article by Dina Muenzfeld – in New York; Saturday, Apr. 14, 2012.
The recently opened gallery of art collector, poet and oncologist Marc Straus emerges unobtrusively from its frantic environs. Located in the up and coming Lower East Side on Eldrige and Grand St, the four story gallery building does not only look distinct…[read on…]
Alex Tennigkeit, Sincere and Austere
by Melissa Steckbauer // Apr. 5, 2012
Alexandra (Alex) Tennigkeit has worked steadily for years around themes of German nationhood, religious politics, and personal tales of death and heartbreaking dismay…[read on]
Christian Jankowski: My art is driven by crisis
by Jeni Fulton // Jan. 16, 2012
Can an artist dictate the terms of social collaboration, or does he remain a recording device for situations he himself initiates? The Berlin-based artist Christian Jankowski…[read on]
An Inside Look at Tacita Dean’s Film at The Tate Modern: Process and Poetics of a Threatened Medium
by Cate Smierciak // Nov. 3, 2011
Walking into the darkened Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, one is drawn by a soft flickering across the room. Approaching this glow – its source initially blocked by a large structure…[read on]
The Meme as Artform – An Interview with Matthias Fritsch
by Katharina Galla // Oct. 27, 2011
Most video artists, video art collectors, dealers and curators alike are reluctant towards enabling the streaming of video art on the internet for a variety of reasons. Be it that they…[read on]
Dangerous Everyday: On Rebecca Loyche
by Elvia Pybrun-Wilk // Oct. 26, 2011
Rebecca Loyche’s work, between photography, video, and installation, focuses on perception and communication, apprehending the silence of the banal and attending to…[read on]
BERLIN ARCH LINK : Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof
by Elizabeth Feder // Oct. 4, 2011
It’s a rare wonder to feel breathless at an exhibition. However, exploring Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof really tests the limits of an individual’s experience of…[read on]
Between Intimacy and Form: Conversations and Connections with Melissa Steckbauer
by Elizabeth Feder // June 28, 2011
We started by rummaging. There were boxes of bubble-wrapped paintings, binders thick with inspirational images, photographs and fragments, and two new canvases…[read on]
WIR SIND BEI UNS: We Are Here With Us
Blog entry and photos by SP Williams – in Berlin; Monday, June 13, 2011.
In ‘Mythos Incorporated’, Eckart Hahn puts classical symbolism and mythic force to the test. He paints over the subjects with current day objects such as plastic bags, or masks them in ‘marketing colors’, such as the sickly McDonald’s yellow that I connect with cheeseburgers, childhood and constipation.