Blog post by Monica Salazar – in Berlin; Tuesday Nov. 5, 2013.
Dallas, Texas is one of the fastest growing cities in America and the contemporary art event Aurora is keeping the city’s arts and culture progress apace. The free event, which took place in October in the urban heart of the Dallas Arts District, revolved around the theme Light of Convergence…[read on…]
Rumour has it that Michael Sailstorfer’s studio building in Weissensee, on the tranquil outskirts of Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district, was once the…[read on]
Article by Sarah Gretch – in Berlin; Wednesday, July 10, 2013.
In a world of hierarchies and borders, art is a way of reeling in, containing this chaos, placing symbols in objects of sensual and ideological power. As a universality of forms, art integrates perspectives in exposing, studying, and perhaps explaining this peculiar state of things…[read on…]
Article by Ally Bisshop – in Berlin; Wednesday, Jun. 12, 2013.
You don’t need to have witnessed the immolation of Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man to appreciate the grand British shamanic histories alluded to in Jeremy Deller’sEnglish Magic. But, rather than heralding any continuing tradition of mastery and conquest, Deller’s works point to the places where the idea of grandeur…[read on…]
Article by Angela Connor – in Berlin; Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2013.
With a playful oeuvre of phallic forms, abstract shapes and womb-like structures, Neto has earned his reputation as a hedonistic artist who encourages the spectator to take pleasure in life, lust and nature…[read on…]
Marisa Mandler’s studio is at the end of a sinister block: past soviet housing complexes, the DDR’s Nazi archives, and right before the Stasi prison museum complex…[read on]
Following the flow of the Spree river, the urban landscape of Berlin transforms in the East of the city, growing desolate and industrial. Formerly a German bathhouse…[read on]
Eva Maria Salvador’s remarkable ‘Köpfe’ (Heads) sculptures are hidden away in her Kreuzberg studio, never exhibited as such or seen by more than a select few…[read on]
Article by Elizabeth Feder – in Berlin; Thursday, Jul. 12, 2012.
“Leaving the Shade” is a provocative show, conjuring up deep and personal reflections through diverse and richly developed pieces. To say that Pennington is a multimedia artist fails to capture the kind of exuberance and vast scope of works that comprises “Leaving the Shade.” In using natural elements as motifs, Pennington navigates the psychological and physiological ramifications of a change that is transformative…[read on…]
Video by MONA production in Dubai // Jun. 21, 2012
During Art Basel this past week, two Dubai-based galleries, Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde (participants of last year’s abc in Berlin) and Green Art Gallery were selected to participate in the Art | Statements sector, marking them as the first Gulf region-based galleries in the 43-year history of Art Basel to be invited…[read on…]
