Posts Tagged ‘history’
Ecologies, Myth and Historical Insistence in Nanna Heitmann’s Photography
by Noëlle BuAbbud // Sept. 30, 2020
In an age of visual noise driven by the rapid circulation of images, and the constant influx of (mis)information on global catastrophes, the German/Russian photographer…[read on]
Kari Steihaug
by Hannah Carroll Harris // May 08, 2020
Kari Steihaug’s studio can be found in a large, old brick building on an island five minutes by ferry from Oslo’s busy city centre, and is a place of creative refuge for local artists…[read on]
Considering the Counter-Colonial Gaze: ‘Spectral White’ at HKW
Article by Martha Lochhead // Dec. 16, 2019
‘Spectral White’ at the HKW assesses how Europeans may have been depicted in the art of the colonized. The exhibition offers an incomplete reconstruction of ethnologist Julius Lips’…[read on]
Exploring Alternative Histories at DAAD Galerie
Article by Ernela Vukaj // July 19, 2019
DAAD Galerie’s new exhibition ‘Deep Sounding – History as Multiple Narratives’ explores the act of recording and relaying historical events. The show considers historiographies by…[read on]
Exhibition // Chiharu Shiota’s ‘Beyond Time’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Article by Louisa Stark in Berlin // Apr. 7, 2018
Chiharu Shiota’s installation ‘Beyond Time’ overruns the 18th century Chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park like an enormous spider’s web web or Duchamp’s ‘mile of string.’ It comprises of 2,000 balls of white wool…[read on]
Performance // ‘Now and Then’ at Tanzfabrik
Article by Louisa Stark in Berlin // Feb. 28, 2018
From the moment the audience enters the studio space at Tanzfabrik for the performance ‘Now and Then’, they are made acutely aware of time. Two performers, Christina Ciupke and…[read on]
Open Call for Artists // Spring 2018 Snehta Residency in Athens
Berlin // Nov. 22, 2017
The Spring 2018 Snehta Residency invites six contemporary art practicitioners to live and work in Kypseli, Athens during two-month residencies. In the spirit of its name ‘Snehta’ (‘Athens’ written in…[read on]
Pierwoss & Siska
by Rebecca Partridge // Dec. 19, 2016
Franziska Pierwoss and Siska, two artists working both independently and in collaboration, met in Lebanon in 2007 when German-born Pierwoss visited the country…[read on]
HOME // ‘The Revolution Won’t Be Televised’: An Interview with Rama Thiaw
Interview by Marc Girardot in Berlin // Mar. 11, 2016
In Senegal, when President Abdoulaye Wade wanted to run for office yet again in 2011, a resistance movement formed on the streets. Shortly afterwards, a group of school friends, including rappers…[read on…]