Born in Athens, Iris Touliatou currently lives and works between her Paris and Berlin studios. One week before the opening of her solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in…[read on]
Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, May 9, 2012.
The space at Sur la Montagne (SlaM) Gallery on Torstrasse is split down the middle, with the work of Toronto-based artists Melissa Fisher and Teresa Aversa exhibited on either side. Aversa’s ‘Untitled (Flower Portraits) – an ongoing series of photos of fake flower bouquets, taken in cemeteries around Toronto and developed at Walmart – cover the walls adjacent to the gallery entrance. [read on…]
“Die Ungarische Methode”, an exhibition recently on view at REH Kunst, explored this relationship between the mathematical precision of a quietly prevalent world-organizing…[read on]
Article by Liz Feder in Berlin // Dec. 20, 2011
‘Running Stream’ (2006) is inspired by a stream in rural Maryland; the soil, rocks and live plants in this piece are taken directly from that site. Alternating displaced natural sections from the site and…[read on…]
When visiting Esther Perbandt in her studio, one is ushered through many levels of public and private spaces. A crisp, simply designed sign with her name…[read on]
Rachel de Joode’s studio, a large room in an old Berlin apartment, is filled with a universe of things. An ordered universe of things. On shelves lined in…[read on]
Blog entry by Clare Ros – in Berlin; Monday, June 20, 2011.
A Single Composite is a kinetic installation and multi-projection / viewing apparatus consisting of one 100 cm wide film strip stretched, twisted, and looped through multiple spaces by reconstituted digital printer chassis. This cinematic enterprise, a sprawling film through which declassified and other found reconnaissance footage is projected on walls, ceilings, and floors, forms a series of individual moments of surveillance and implied violence. [view all images…]
Blog entry and photos by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 17, 2011.
It is now 40 days since Weiwei was arrested, and his show at the gallery neugerriemschneider serves as a reminder that the culture wars are not over, they have merely relocated. Weiwei’s installation of reassembled trees (Tree, 2011) and white porcelain rocks (Rock, 2011) is intended to invoke associations with traditional Chinese gardens, sites of contemplation and reflection. [view all images…]
Blog Entry by Corinna Kirsch– in Berlin; Wednesday, May 11, 2011.
Kraus takes banal and inanimate objects, then recombines and alters them in a way to imbue them with emotion and a resemblance to living things. For her “ice lamp,” she sealed a light bulb with silicone and then stuck it inside a cube of icy water and ink, causing the lamp to slowly wither and melt away. Regarding this work, Kraus has said: “When you see the lamp, there is something extremely sad about it.”
Blog Entry by SP Williams– in Berlin; Tuesday, May 9, 2011.
This huge space, self-dubbed ‘the experimental culture generator’, holds much potential for future creative collaborators right in the heart of Wedding. Creatives of all kinds are encouraged to contact Mica Moca with ideas for future events.
Blog Entry by Clare Ros – in Copenhagen; Friday, April 15, 2011.
Last week I visited the Arken Museum outside of Copenhagen, Denmark to experience one of the latest works by Berlin-based Olafur Eliasson, “Din blinde passager (your blind passenger)“. Moving through the lengthy hall was a captivating experience as myself and other participants wandered into a fog…
Blog Entry by Elizabeth Feder // March 30, 2011
You walk in, passed the proper galleries, through the narrow corridor until everything opens in an eruption…[view all images…]
