Posts Tagged ‘Grand Palais’

Sitting Ducks: An Interview with Nuri Koerfer

by Gabriela Acha // Oct. 18, 2024

I first heard about Nuri Koerfer several years ago when I visited the exhibition ‘Sitting Bone,’ which she organised at the now-extinct Berlin project space, Mavra…[read on]

Top Picks from Art Basel Paris

by Anna Russ // Oct. 18, 2024

For its inaugural edition, Art Basel Paris takes place in the newly-renovated Grand Palais, in the heart of the French capital. This year, 195 galleries from 42 countries and territories, including…[read on]

Interview // Orlan: ‘This Is My Body, This Is My Software’

Article by Claudia Grigg Edo // July 05, 2017
On June 23rd Orlan opened her first-ever solo exhibition in Berlin with a special performance, revolving around her ‘Petition Contre la Mort’ (Petition Against Death). The infamous feminist icon and…[read on]

Tomás Saraceno

by Alison Hugill // Dec. 3, 2015

Nearing the close of our visit to Tomás Saraceno’s studio in Rummelsburg, he offered an apt metaphor that summed up the working environment of his office…[read on]

Exhibition // 50 years of ZERO: A Retrospective at Martin-Gropius-Bau

Article by Nora Kovacs – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 02, 2015.

Over 50 years ago, artists Otto Piene and Heinz Mack founded Zero, an international art movement in response to the limits and constraints of post-war artistic paradigms…[read on…]

Anish Kapoor at Monumenta in Paris

Article and photos by Anna Russ in Berlin // June 17, 2011
Anish Kapoor is the fourth artist invited to create a monumental artwork for this giant space. His sculpture, Leviathan is named after the mythological-biblical sea monster. After the title of Thomas Hobbes’ book, Leviathan has additionally become a synonym for governmental arbitrariness. Today Kapoor has seized this reading by dedicating his sculpture to Ai Wei Wei. [view all images…]