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]
Article by Iman Vakil in Berlin // Jul. 22, 2017
The controversial reconstruction of the Berlin Palace demonstrates the ambivalent values within a country still struggling to come to terms with its past. Located in the symbolic city center, the building…[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]
