Blog post by Melissa Steckbauer – in Berlin; Wednesday, May 29, 2013.
Sabine Dehnel is crafty. Her practice is born in paint and then shifts into installation, sculpture, and photography. It oscillates between so many mediums that it feels more cinematic than artistic. A single painting is realized and then used as the basis for an installation which is then hand preened, cut and formed…[read on…]
Melissa Steckbauer – “Are you dead or are you sleeping”; LSD Galerie Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012 MARTIN GROPIUS BAU “Der Künstler, der die Welt verschluckt” – ERWIN WURM Screening and Artist Talk: Wednesday, Nov. 28; 7pm Niederkirchnerstraße 7 (click here for map) Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 DAZ “Workspace” – IGNACIO URIARTE Exhibition: Nov. 30, 2012… Read more »
Interview by Melissa Steckbauer in Berlin; Monday, Jul. 23, 2012.
As part of Kunst braucht Fläche, a public art installation project in Berlin, artist Melissa Steckbauer conducted the following two interviews on the topic of “intuition”. The first interview is with Ashema Wierowski, the owner of the Be-Touched massage studio in the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin…[read on…]
Alexandra (Alex) Tennigkeit has worked steadily for years around themes of German nationhood, religious politics, and personal tales of death and heartbreaking dismay…[read on]
Ulrich Gebert’s, A Breed Apart at Klemm’s is an explicit but painful tour of human “intercourse with nature” as per the press release. I find the blend of play, cuteness, and light…[read on]
A sweeping wooden (or polyblend?) frame just blocks the main entrance of Tanya Leighton’s gallery door. Nothing can be quite as intimidating in the arts as coming into…[read on]
Peter Böhnisch and Wolfgang Ganter met in 1999 when they began their studies at the Akademie für bildende Künste. I was introduced to the artists in 2007 and have not seen…[read on]
We started by rummaging. There were boxes of bubble-wrapped paintings, binders thick with inspirational images, photographs and fragments, and two new canvases…[read on]
