For almost two decades, Indigenous artist Daniel Boyd has confronted and disrupted the misrepresentations of colonial narratives that comprise the history of so-called Australia…[read on]
Taking the notion of repair as the foundation for this year’s Berlin Biennale, Kader Attia set himself the task of addressing and proposing a means to heal the wounds of our society’s…[read on]
Dutch artist Renzo Martens—famous for numerous, complex, sometimes repulsive, acts of artistic holy foolery—is back with a new chapter in his ongoing project at KOW in Mitte,…[read on]
There is no monolithic “Black American experience” to be garnered here, but two stark artistic approaches that each point to an interest in reclaiming narratives…[read on]
This year’s Berlin Biennale interrogates many forms of oppression enacted globally, coaxing to the surface seldom-heard stories of the marginalized, forgotten and violently silenced…[read on]
Article by Martha Lochhead // Dec. 16, 2019
‘Spectral White’ at the HKW assesses how Europeans may have been depicted in the art of the colonized. The exhibition offers an incomplete reconstruction of ethnologist Julius Lips’…[read on]
Article by Jesse Cumming // Dec. 06, 2019
The Biennale’s individual works on display, as well as a number of its curatorial clusters, evinced and responded to ideas of movement and circulation in ways both literal, symbolic, poetic and political…[read on]
Article by Johanna Hardt // Mar. 15, 2019
Cao Fei’s film ‘Prison Architect’ uses the physical space of the prison as a metaphorical complex to reflect common understandings of freedom and captivity. More than presenting the prison as an actual site of…[read on]
Article by Isabelle Hore-Thorburn // Oct. 05, 2018
A rose-pink chainlink curtain demarcates the entrance to ‘Touch’ at nGbK. Walking through the threshold of the exhibition, I touch and am touched by Ruth Buchanan’s work, Split, Splits, Splitting…[read on]
Article by Samuel Staples // Aug. 03, 2018
Unfolding at the site of the former Australian Embassy to the German Democratic Republic, the exhibition ‘Ex-Embassy’ examines the conventions of guest and host relations…[read on]
Article by Samuel Staples // June 6, 2018
‘Whose Land Have I Lit on Now? Contemplations on the Notions of Hospitality’ examines the idea of hospitality as a fictitious commodity, and the inherent hostility that comes with this notion of hospitality…[read on]
Article by Kimberly Budd in Berlin // Nov. 20, 2017
Architect Anne Hodges was commissioned by British-Jamaican investor (and Bob Marley producer) Chris Blackwell to study the traditional architecture and village life of Jamaica and incorporate it in to…[read on]
