Posts Tagged ‘exhibition review’
Inter-Connectivity: ‘Under the Viral Shadow’ at Art Laboratory Berlin
by Alison Sperling // Aug. 31, 2021
From artificial intelligence programming to slime mould topologies, the works presented cohere in the question of how forms of connectivity have been altered and are…[read on]
Performing the Feminine: ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’ at CFA Berlin
by Kristina Foster // July 8, 2021
By asking what form that modern muse might take today, the exhibition offers a shrewd new angle on the fraught relationship between figurative art and female iconography…[read on]
Interior Motives: Grace Weaver’s ‘Droop’ at Soy Capitán
by Noushin Afzali // June 18, 2021
“Grace Weaver went inside herself.” That is how the German art historian, Christian Malycha, begins the press release of Weaver’s latest exhibition at Soy Capitán…[read on]
Teenage Angst: Bunny Rogers’ ‘MS Agony’ at Société Berlin
by Samuel Staples // Jan. 29, 2021
In the latest exhibition ‘MS Agony’ by American artist Bunny Rogers, currently on view by appointment at Societé Berlin, Rogers grapples with identity and addresses…[read on]
Questioning the Social Body: Transmediale’s ‘The Eternal Network’ Exhibition at HKW
by Denisa Tomkova // Feb. 3, 2020
This year’s transmediale exhibition ‘The Eternal Network’ calls for more intimate relationships within the network, and for regaining more control, away from centralized digital…[read on]
Becoming an Earthworker: ‘Majnoon Field’ at Temporary Gallery Cologne
Article by Denisa Tomkova // Dec. 03, 2019
Rheim Alkadhi’s solo exhibition ‘Majnoon Field’ at Temporary Gallery in Cologne tells the story of the area of oil extraction and the international weapons trade in the Southern Iraq…[read on]
An Audible Exploration of Invisible Nature
Article by Sofia Bergmann // Aug. 16, 2018
In ‘A Grain Within a Cloud of Dust’ at Galerie im Turm, Gil Delindro makes the invisible visible—and audible. With the Algerian-Moroccan desert as his starting point, he extracts the location’s expansive yet…[read on]
Isabelle Graeff’s Photography Binds People and Politics
Article by Louisa Stark // Jun. 2, 2018
Across Sexauer gallery’s walls Isabelle Graeff’s photographs are arranged either singularly or in groups of twos and threes at different heights, in a style that reminds me of Wolfgang Tilmans…[read on]
Los Carpinteros Merge the Personal and Political
Article by Louisa Stark // May 15, 2018
‘El Otro, El Mismo / The Other, The Same’ at KOW is an exhibition that, as hinted by its title, can feel both contrasting and complimentary. The artist collective Los Carpinteros, made up of…[read on]
Exhibition // Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs: ‘Defying Gravity’ at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art
Article by Louisa Stark // May 7, 2018
Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs’ new show ‘Defying Gravity’ at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art opens with a dual deception. A monochrome video of a man on a ladder, reminiscent of a silent film, is playing…[read on]
Exhibition // Jana Gunstheimer’s ‘Luft nach oben’ at Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Article by Louisa Stark in Berlin // Mar. 19, 2018
A tension between the silly and the sombre runs throughout Falkenrot Prize winner Jana Gunstheimer’s exhibition ‘Luft nach oben’ at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien. The artist employs formal and controlled elements of…[read on]