“Where is Ana Mendieta?” It is a question that has become familiar over the last decade. Jane Blocker’s 1999 book by that title is regarded as a critical point in the reassessment of Mendieta’s artistic legacy and subsequent understandings…[read on]
William Forsythe’s ‘Choreographic Objects’ provides the audience with a veritable fun house in which they can jump, crawl, balance precariously above the floor or, in other words,…[read on]
To play is to experiment. It is the way in which children learn social and cultural codes and adults relieve themselves of them. In Umut Azad Akkel’s exhibition at Haus am Lützowplatz…[read on]
Gabriele Stötzer is an artist whose rebellious spirit has propelled her towards a wide range of visual media. Her dexterity in media such as photography, painting and film sharpened…[read on]
As host of this chapter of the Kyiv Biennial, the KW Institute in Berlin presents ‘A Bird That Cannot Land,’ in collaboration with the Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv. By nature,…[read on]
Urgent questions around repatriation and reparations form the political backdrop of ‘Tide of Returns,’ an exhibition by Repatriates Collective and Verena Melgarejo Weinandt at…[read on]
Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ has been on my mind lately. I like thinking about her monster; what it means to be feared, what happens when animation teeters over into existence…[read on]
In collaboration with TBA21, the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid presents ‘Pedagogies of War,’ an exhibition by Ukrainian artists Roman Khimei and…[read on]
In a time before social media, queer publications offered a lifeline to those isolated within their small towns. They were a source of escape for many young people and, in some cases,…[read on]
Some words are meant to be read. Others, insists Shilpa Gupta, must be walked through. In her current solo exhibition, ‘What Still Holds’ at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin,…[read on]
A massive shipping crane and a set of bleachers towered out of the water, moored somewhere in the middle of Venice’s lagoon. A subwoofer droned through the pouring rain, its…[read on]
It’s been over a decade since Germany has held an extensive survey of the Los Angeles-based artist Richard Hawkins’ work. After an Austrian iteration of ‘Potentialities’ at Kunsthalle Wien,…[read on]
