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« Previous EntriesRudolf Stingel. LIVE / Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Friday, February 12th, 2010Especially for the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Tyrolean-born artist Rudolf Stingel designed an installation which transforms the character of the iconic Mies van der Rohe building. Rudolf Stingel installed a giant carpet on the floor in the gallery’s large glass hall. The pattern of the carpet dates back to an original 19th century Indian [...]
Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus / Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010The Deutsche Guggenheim celebrates its 50th exhibition with a show that is dedicated to utopia as an inspiration for artistic creation and as a living model for artist collectives. The exhibition is titled “Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus” and brings together exceptional and rarely shown works by artists such as Kandinsky, Klee, and Mondrian. [...]
Annelies Štrba: icons / Galerie Eigen + Art Berlin
Monday, January 25th, 2010For her solo exhibition at the gallery Eigen + Art in Berlin, Swiss artist Annelies Štrba extracts 111 Madonnas from their initially religious context, presents them as tiny pigment prints on canvas, and arranges them like mosaics side by side on the wall.
“Thereby the holly Madonna is no more the sacrificed mother giving birth [...]
Bettina Pousttchi: Echo / Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin / Interview
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Just a few months after the last remnants of the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) were removed, visitors of Schlossplatz can now experience a feeling of déjà vu. Berlin-based artist Bettina Pousttchi’s (*1971) photo installation Echo covers the entire façade of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, evoking memories of the just recently demolished building. [...]
Zilvinas Kempinas Magnetic Tape Installation / Remix
Friday, November 20th, 2009At this year’s Art Forum Berlin, Berlin’s international fair for contemporary art, Spencer Brownstone Gallery presented a magnetic tape installation by Zilvinas Kempinas. It was the only work on display at the gallery’s booth. The Lithuanian artist, who lives and works in New York is known for his works that use unspooled videotape as sculptural [...]
Interview with Julie Mehretu / Julie Mehretu: Grey Area, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin / part 2/2
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009The current exhibition Julie Mehretu: Grey Area at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is dedicated to the American artist Julie Mehretu. Julie Mehretu has been asked to realize a work for the Deutsche Guggenheim’s series of commissions that started in 1998 with James Rosenquist. The works of the suite of paintings she created for this [...]
Julie Mehretu: Grey Area / Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin / part 1/2
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Currently on display at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is American artist Julie Mehretu’s suite of paintings Grey Area. It’s the fifteenth work within the Deutsche Guggenheim’s series of commissions that started in 1998 with James Rosenquist, followed by Andreas Slominski, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lawrence Weiner, Jeff Koons, Rachel Whiteread, Bill Viola, Gerhard Richter, John Baldessari, [...]
Grosse Freiheit Nr. 8 / White Trash Contemporary
Monday, October 12th, 2009During the international art fair Art Forum Berlin, Hamburg-based gallery White Trash Contemporary used a temporary showroom at Strausberger Platz 19, to present part of the gallery’s program in Berlin. White Trash Contemporary is run by Nils Grossien. In this video he provides us with a short introduction to his program. In Berlin he showed [...]
Preview Berlin 2009 – Tempelhof Conveyor Belt Remix
Monday, October 5th, 2009On October 30, 2008, after more than 80 years of airline operations and 125 years of aviation in Berlin’s Central Airport, the last planes took off at Tempelhof Zentralflughafen. This years edition of Preview – The Emerging Art Fair was held in the main hall of the former Berlin Tempelhof Central Airport. The Zentralflughafen is [...]
John Bock: The Greased Bendsteering… – Lecture / Fashion Show at HKW Berlin
Friday, October 2nd, 2009German artist John Bock’s event at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin was announced as a lecture, bearing a rather long title – and turned out to be an entertaining fashion show with weird vogue, underground action and some animals that were not injured.
John Bock’s show Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepäck verheddert sich [...]
