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Article by Claudia Grigg Edo in Berlin // Mar. 23, 2017
An early scene in the David Bowie-starring film ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’ (1976, hereafter TMWFTE) shows a college professor and his student taking a camera to bed, heightening the thrill of their…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Mar. 6, 2017
Five years ago Lawrence Weiner asked me if I liked whisky. We were at a dinner for his exhibition ‘Concentricity Per Se’, which we had just mounted at a gallery in Berlin. I said I did (I do), and found my large empty…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Dec. 25, 2016
How can we capture and represent a changing world, caught in the moment of transition? In the work of Marwan Rechmaoui, a large floor-based black rubber map delineates the entire city of Beirut, sixty individual…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Nov. 30, 2016
I first encountered the work of Belgian-born Philip Aguirre y Otegui at this year’s Ireland Biennale, EVA International, being struck by his new installation ‘Cabinet Mare Nostrum’. Monotone blue, coffin-shaped boats…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Oct. 31, 2016
Refractions of light emanate from the gaps between the edges of a mirrored cube, patterned beams echoing around the room over and over again, creating an expanding immaterial matrix; bright light peeps …[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton // Sep. 27, 2016
Artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas grew up in the UK, the son of Sri Lankan parents who fled the country’s civil war in the 1980s. His interest in Sri Lankan history palpably emerges in his artistic practice, most notably…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton in Berlin // Sep. 16, 2016
I wrote these words while floating. Or, more specifically, while on a Blue-Star sightseeing boat sailing down the Spree. As a venue for the 9th Berlin Biennale’s weekly performances, this evening’s iteration presented a work by American artist…[read on]
Article by Louisa Elderton // Sep. 07, 2016
You could say that Erwin Wurm goes that extra mile to make people work. I mean, really work. At his recent Berlinische Galerie exhibition, the main hall buzzed with frenetic energy as crowds of people climbed…[read on]
