Article by Karina Griffith in Berlin // Mar. 7, 2018
One of the highlights of the Panorama program at this year’s Berlinale Film Festival was Leilah Weinraub’s ‘Shakedown’ is an intimate portrayal of south central Los Angeles’s Black queer erotic…[read on]
Article by Emily McDermott // Feb. 28, 2018
A bright orange banner covering the façade of the Tallinn Art Hall in Estonia reads Mõtleme oma emakeeles ka siis, kui selles ei räägi, or “You think in your own language, even if you don’t speak it.” This site-specific work…[read on]
“No credible scientists would ever build anything like this because it would ruin their careers,” boasts Klara Hobza, smirking at the artistic endeavor standing before her,…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Feb. 8, 2018
In Canyon Castator’s world, the absinthe drinker finds comrades and the feast of the gods gets out of hand and the death of Sardonopolis is the result of frat hazing. After breaking his leg skateboarding,…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Feb. 5, 2018
Berlin-based Icelandic artist Anna Rún Tryggvadottir’s most recent exhibition, ‘Garður/Garden’ at the Reykjavík Art Museum, envisioned an altered state of nature as materials coalesced in a durational performance…[read on]
Article by Rebecca Partridge in Berlin // Jan. 23, 2018
For more than two decades, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead’s conceptual practice has spanned across video, sculpture, sound, installation and the internet, the duo often utilises live data and/or archive materials…[read on]
Article by Penny Rafferty in Berlin // Jan. 08, 2018
2017 was the year that the truth about sexual misconduct within the cultural sphere broke the headlines—and not just with high profile individual cases like Harvey Weinstein and Artforum’s Knight Landesman being…[read on]
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Nov. 16, 2017
Sislej Xhafa forgoes the customary interview locale inside Blain|Southern, the gallery that showcases his current exhibition ‘Shadow of Curls’ (and happens to be quiet and warm), for a damp edge of the busy parking lot,…[read on]
Article by Lisa Birch in Berlin // Mar. 27, 2017
Absolut is collaborating with Portuguese artist João Vasco Paiva to present the site-specific Art Bar, ‘Room Servive’ as part of Hong Kong Art Week 2017. The Art Bar is open from March 17th until April 2nd, exhibiting…[read on]
Article by Liam Casey in Los Angeles // Mar. 14, 2017
Since opening in spring of 2015, the Venus gallery has occupied a spacious, formerly industrial space in the city’s Boyle Heights neighborhood—directly east of downtown and the Arts District,…[read on]
Article by Lisa Birch in Berlin // Jan. 17, 2017
Day for Night, is redefining the way in which festival-goers interact with and understand the disparate mediums of art and music. Internationally-recognized visual artists have come together with an outstanding musical…[read on]
Article by Alice Bardos // July 22, 2016
For nearly three decades Berlin’s defining feature was a monolith insidiously snaking its way through the politically ruptured city. Nowadays, it has a uniquely uniform dispersal of inhabitants averaging a…[read on]