Posts Tagged ‘Berlin’
GILBERT & GEORGE: Urethra Postcard Art
Blog Entry by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Saturday, May 7, 2011.
Arndt is showing “The Urethra Post Card Art”, an exhibition of 52 new works by the duo. Each piece comprises of 13 picture postcards, drawn from souvenir shops, prostitutes’ calling cards and other pieces of urban ephemera, arranged in the shape of a urethra. It’s the single largest exhibition of their postcard art in Berlin to date.
MY KNOWLEDGE SPACE: New Berlin Library as a Prototype
Blog Entry by Clare Ros– in Berlin; Friday, May 6, 2011.
The City of Berlin is considering to build the new Berlin Library on the former Tempelhof airport field (now Tempelhofer Freiheit). Before the competition and planning phase kicks off, ANCB in collaboration with the Central and Regional Library Berlin want to explore the roles, tasks and functions of the public library of the 21st century as well as the demands it has to meet. The symposium will address significant aspects in an intensive, transdisciplinary discussion.
URBAN NOISE: Perspective counts
Blog Entry by SP Williams – in Berlin; Thursday, May 5, 2011.
Things that can be easily expressed and separated by terms are, in reality, entangled, out of focus, alterable and, depending on the perspecitve, visible or invisible. Noise does not just describe clattering, din or sounds, but also almost implausible frequencies that can subliminally influence moods and points of view.
GLENN BROWN: HAUNTING COLOR
Blog Entry by SP Williams – in Berlin; Sunday, May 1, 2011.
The Glenn Brown solo exhibition at Max Hetzler’s satellite gallery is a must-see for painting enthusiasts. Portraiture and figurative paintings, as well as ‘paint sculptures’, are presented in a grandiose flat near Savigny platz. The paintings are hauntingly beautiful and painstakingly rendered with Glenn Brown’s unique style of small, flowing lines of color.
KARLA MARIE BENTZEN: Dirty Fingers Opening
Blog Entry by Adam Roche – in Berlin; Saturday, April 30, 2011.
The opening on the15th April there was a great display of affection towards the illustrative based work of Karla Marie Bentzen, of which ended in an amazing night. As Karla Marie Bentzen’s first solo exhibition went very well, and I hope to see more of her work. The exhibition runs from April 15 until May 14 2011, at the Berlin Unlike Gallery.
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TEMPTATION TO BE GOOD: Mercedes Helnwein
Blog Entry by Clare Ros – in Berlin; Friday, April 29, 2011.
Last night was the opening of Temptation To Be Good, works by Mercedes Helnwein at pool gallery in Berlin. The powerfully evocative exhibition offered a beautiful start to gallery weekend. Including a number of captivating pastel portraits, and a video in which these characters come to life (with music by her brother, Ali Helnwein), the artist’s third solo-exhibition at pool gallery is a must-see.
KATRIN FRIDRIKS: Leak of Information
Blog Entry by SP Williams – in Berlin; Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
Leak of Information is metallic, just like our technology-based contemporary time. With a new well-defined colorimetric using “silver, gold, steel, cooper, aluminium” as backgrounds/shadows, drawing from platforms/heart of planet earth, Fridriks is taking us deeper. Playing with colors and their own reflects, she is casting a new light on our society and its dynamics.
NANNA HÄNNINEN: Plants/Objects/Paint
Blog Entry by SP Williams – in Berlin; Saturday, April 23, 2011.
Hänninen’s approach is obviously of a conceptual nature: through digital processing, color values are removed from the original color photographs of the subject, so that the-now black-and-white photographs serve as the ground for the painting’s components.
You’re Invited to the Gallery Weekend Kick-Off Party, Apr. 28, 2011 at KIM Bar in Berlin
Berlin Art Link invites you to a special night at KIM Bar featuring three lady DJs and a performance by Allison Fall to kick off this year’s Gallery Weekend…[read on]
1001 CHAIRS FOR AI WEIWEI
Blog Entry by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Tuesday, April 19, 2011.
A calm atmosphere reigned: people passed bags of sunflower seeds in homage to Weiweis current installation at the Tate Modern and waved posters. The protest was attended by leading figures of the Berlin arts scene including the curator of the Ethnological museum in Dahlem, and aroused a great deal of media attention.
TEA CIRCLE: For Ai Wei Wei
Blog Entry by Anastasia Loginova – in Berlin; Saturday, April 16, 2011.
The international art world’s responce to the recent imprisonment of Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei has been strong. New York City’s Guggenheim has urged local museums to create a public petition for his freedom . The glass roof top of London’s Tate Modern reads “RELEASE AI WEI WEI” clearly, even from across the river. In Berlin the artists took to the streets. On Saturday, 9th April, they gathered outside the Chinese Embassy to make tea, not war.