Posts Tagged ‘Donald Trump’
Announcement // Pictoplasma Festival 2018
Article by Berlin Art Link in Berlin // Apr. 20, 2018
This May, the annual Pictoplasma Festival returns for its 14th International Conference and Festival of Contemporary Character Design and Art, featuring a convergence of international artists, illustrators, filmmakers…[read on]
Nationalism // Artist of the Times: An Interview with Brian Whiteley
Article by Jess Harrison // Feb. 19, 2018
New York-based artist Brian Whiteley caused massive controversy when he anonymously installed ‘The Legacy Stone’ – better known as the ‘Donald Trump Tombstone’ – in Central Park on the morning of…[read on]
Nationalism // Rainer Ganahl’s ‘Ubu Trump’ at Spike Berlin
Article by Jess Harrison // Feb. 9, 2018
Taking place at Trump Tower and the Palace of Poland, Austrian-American artist Rainer Ganahl’s play ‘Ubu Trump’ employs an eclectic cabinet of characters, including President Donald J. Trump, Ivanka…[read on]
Truth // Dani Gal’s ‘Hegemon’ at Berlinische Galerie
Article by Jack Radley // Feb. 1, 2018
Israeli-born, Berlin-based artist Dani Gal’s most recent film, ‘Hegemon’, undermines the assurance of American power and military morality. Gal juxtaposes pedestrian visuals of one day in the nation’s capital…[read on]
Activism // ‘The Politics of Color’: Warren Neidich at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Article by Claudia Grigg Edo in Berlin // Jun. 19, 2017
The most visually impressive work in Warren Neidich’s new exhibition, ‘Die Politik der Farbe’ – ‘The Politics of Color’ – is a huge cloud of words in bright neon tubing connected by arrows…[read on]
Performance // Laurie Anderson: The Language of the Future at transmediale
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Mar. 10, 2017
Building walls — the contemporary rhetoric exacerbated by Trump’s exhaustive twitter-feed — will no doubt go down in history as one of the most heated stories of our times. Seeping out of the internet…[read on]
Words // ‘Actions Speak Louder Than Fonts’: Christine Wang at Galerie Nagel Draxler
Article by Mitch Speed in Berlin // Feb. 20, 2017
Of all the heart-wrenching scenes I’ve witnessed in two years commuting between New Jersey and New York city, one of the saddest was that of two Donald Trump supporters demonstrating outside the tycoon’s…[read on]
Beirut // Shifting Power: An Interview with Marwan Rechmaoui
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Dec. 25, 2016
How can we capture and represent a changing world, caught in the moment of transition? In the work of Marwan Rechmaoui, a large floor-based black rubber map delineates the entire city of Beirut, sixty individual…[read on]
Migration // The Need for Solidarity: An Interview with Philip Aguirre y Otegui
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Nov. 30, 2016
I first encountered the work of Belgian-born Philip Aguirre y Otegui at this year’s Ireland Biennale, EVA International, being struck by his new installation ‘Cabinet Mare Nostrum’. Monotone blue, coffin-shaped boats…[read on]
Talks // Adam Harper ‘Music Today, Tomorrow’s Joys and Horrors’ at 3hd Festival 2016
Article by Beatrix Joyce in Berlin // Oct. 28, 2016
Aside from their robust live program of electronic music, 3hd Festival 2016 also included a lecture by musicologist Adam Harper…Harper offered a contextualised view on recent trends in electronic music and put forward—in line with 3HD Festival 2016’s overarching theme…[read on]
Work // What Only the Hand Can See: An Interview with Molly Crabapple
Article by TL Andrews in Berlin // Sep. 29, 2016
Photographs only really became a staple in journalism from around the 1920s. Before then illustration, or so-called pictorial journalism, was the norm. Audiences experienced everything—from gruesome scenes…[read on]