Posts Tagged ‘politics’
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 Nanna Heitmann creates photographs…[read on]
The Science of Art and the Art of Science: Nina Rodin at Karl Oskar Gallery
Article by Vanessa Souli // Feb. 10, 2020
Nina Rodin’s interdisciplinary show ‘Caviar, Skin and Unsolved Systems’ at Karl Oskar Gallery in Tempelhof suggests an approach to art-making as a scientific process…[read on]
Lubaina Himid’s Revolution from Below at the New Museum New York
Article by Michelle Standley // Sept. 24, 2019
Zanzibar-born and London-bred, Turner-prize-winning painter and installation artist Lubaina Himid has an agenda. She wants to change the world…[read on]
Hito Steyerl and the Information Age at the Akademie der Künste
Article by Sarah Messerschmidt // Mar. 20, 2019
Hito Steyerl has become a ubiquitous name in international art circles. She is the eminent professor of New Media Art and co-founder of the Research Center for Proxy Politics at Berlin’s…[read on]
Isabelle Graeff’s Photography Binds People and Politics
Article by Louisa Stark // Jun. 2, 2018
Across Sexauer gallery’s walls Isabelle Graeff’s photographs are arranged either singularly or in groups of twos and threes at different heights, in a style that reminds me of Wolfgang Tilmans…[read on]
Nationalism // Archiving the Alt-Right: An Interview with Tomáš Rafa
Article by Jess Harrison // Feb. 23, 2018
Artist and filmmaker, Tomáš Rafa discusses democracy, the refugee crisis and the increasingly indistinguishable boundary between legality and illegality as far-right parties become part of official politics…[read on]
Exhibition // ‘Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War’ at HKW
Article by Jack Radley in Berlin // Nov. 29, 2017
‘Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War’ at Haus der Kulturen der Welt – HKW reveals scandals, reshapes narratives, and interrogates ideologies. The exhibition uses the U.S. Central Intelligence…[read on]
Body // Nonhuman Subjectivities: Humans Can Learn from the Political Make-Up of Our Bacteria
Article by Alice Bardos // Apr. 16, 2016
The thought of a sneeze, the touch of an unwashed hand or any form of contact with microbes that can cause illness usually causes people too recoil, but Nonhuman Subjectivities on at the…[read on]
Art as Politics: Vienna’s 12th ELIA Biennial Conference
Article by Evanna Folkenfolk – in Berlin; Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012.