Blog Entry by SP Williams– in Berlin; Saturday, May 14, 2011.
For those who still believe that WASTED GERMAN YOUTH is more of an art project than a tshirt label have the chance to prove themself even maybe right by checking out the 2006 WE CAME TO FUCK piece from paul snowden at the group show with Philippe Decrauzat and Olivier Mosset at Nymphius Projekte.
Blog Entry by Corinna Kirsch– in Berlin; Wednesday, May 11, 2011.
Kraus takes banal and inanimate objects, then recombines and alters them in a way to imbue them with emotion and a resemblance to living things. For her “ice lamp,” she sealed a light bulb with silicone and then stuck it inside a cube of icy water and ink, causing the lamp to slowly wither and melt away. Regarding this work, Kraus has said: “When you see the lamp, there is something extremely sad about it.”
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.
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.
Article by Corinna Kirsch in Berlin // May 4, 2011
As a freelancer, I have a small and nearly empty bank account, but I still dream about buying artworks off the gallery walls. Of course, not all great art can hang above a couch, so my fanciful thoughts then fade to debating the merits of the works on hand and the art scene itself—typical thoughts for…[read more…]
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.
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. [view all images…]
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.
Blog Entry by Elizabeth Feder // March 30, 2011
You walk in, passed the proper galleries, through the narrow corridor until everything opens in an eruption…[view all images…]
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.” [view all images…]
Around 2005, I did two things: undertook a course called the History of Drawing and got myself a copy of Phaidon’s Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. The course, much…[read on]
Blog Entry by SP Williams– in Berlin; Monday, March 14, 2011.
“Chloe Piene touches the dimension of myth through a fascinated contemplation of the relationship between man and animal, or the existential questioning of the points where eroticism and apprehension of death meet.”
