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On the street and off the beaten track
by Max Nesterak
Joel Sternfeld at C/O Berlin
November 10th, 2012 - January 13th
Posted
1/8/13
Joel Sternfeld’s retrospective now in its final days at the C/O Gallery covers some forty years of the artist’s career as a storyteller and pioneer of color photography. The exhibition itself tells as much of a story of Sternfeld’s life and his artistic development as each of his photographs do. It’s a colorful trek through the American landscape from the coasts of North Carolina to the rooftops of Chicago and the backyards of Pennsylvania. Yet it’s a journey not so much through America as it i... [more]
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Berlin: Taking Stock of 2012
by Nicole Rodriguez
Posted
12/24/12
Twenty Twelve proved to be an event-saturated year for Berlin. We heard the announcement of the Guggenheim’s departure from the scene, we observed the launch of the first Berlin Art Week, and we celebrated the canonization of Germany’s own Gerhard Richter with his transnational Panorama exhibition. The Berlin Biennale reflected the grassroots political fervor that swept the globe, our favorite local bunker introduced the first rotation of its semi-permanent collection, and dOCUMENTA(13) dre... [more]
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[VIDEO] Interview with Mike Ruiz, Beny Wagner
by The Karte
Beny Wagner at Future Gallery
October 20th, 2012 - November 10th, 2012
Posted
12/18/12
The herringbone parquet was first adopted as an alternative to stone and marble inlay on the floors of French palaces. Using wood could be seen as a compromise, the acceptance of time shifting the material, which must be cared for and maintained.
As with many other objects woven through our social fabric, today’s parquet is an almost imperceptible touch of wealth. It is handcrafted luxury made affordable. It is the silent triumph of man standing upright, of his right to step on the surface of labor.
Read more on Th... [more]
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Photography for the end of the world
by Parker Tilghman
Lisa Oppenheim at Klosterfelde
November 10th, 2012 - December 21st, 2012
Posted
12/11/12
Lisa Oppenheim’s Vapours and Veils at Klosterfelde in Berlin ends on December 21st, the alleged day of our planet’s untimely demise. Coincidence? Probably not. There is something a little bit apocalyptic about Oppenheim’s work with its analog inquisitions in these digital times. The exhibition appears to feature three distinct and seemingly separate bodies of work linked by the artist’s ongoing fascination with the inner workings of the Photograph, its ability (read: inability) to produce trut... [more]
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[VIDEO] September Projekt Galerie > »Meta-Ikon« (Prolog)
by The Karte
MARC BONNETIN, Frank Eickhoff, Heike Gallmeier, Mirko Martin, NOÉ SENDAS, Ming Wong at SEPTEMBER
October 20th, 2012 - November 3rd, 2012
Posted
12/4/12
The group-exhibition »Meta-Ikon« mainly presents photography as the dominant medium for recording and generating images, and as the contemporary appropriation of the historically acknowledged canon of images. Accordingly, the show is an arrangement of new statements that are not documenting reality, but refer to existing images of Western culture found in painting, photography, sculpture and film. Using different strategies the artists transform the collective images/icons of our cultural memory into new works of art.... [more]
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Boros Bunker: Take Two
by Nicole Rodriguez
at Sammlung Boros
September 17th, 2012 - September 17th, 2015
Posted
11/27/12
Colloquially referred to around town as the Boros Bunker, the Boros Collection & Residence is now one of the most coveted slices of architecture in all Berlin, though its current state of prestige has been hard earned. Considered a scar on the face of the historically conscious city until the not so distant past, the colossal 3,000 square-meter former air raid bunker was erected in 1942 by forced-labor under the direction of architect Albert Speer, based on plans by architect Karl Bonatz. From it... [more]
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[VIDEO] Interview with Anja Henckel & Nadim Samman
by The Karte
Art 404, Elodie Pong, Nicolas Provost, Harm van den Dorpel, Artie Vierkant at IMPORT Projects
September 7th, 2012 - October 19th, 2012
Posted
11/21/12
Say Goodbye to Hollywood explores the changing face of broadcasting, intellectual property, and filmic (re)production in our networked age. Throughout, the impact of digital technologies – facilitating rapid distribution of content, the breakdown of production – consumption hierarchies, and the dismemberment of the moving-image – is in focus. The featured artworks announce the wrack of the Twentieth Century entertainment industry in the download era. In so doing, Say Goodbye to Hollywood alludes to the future of c... [more]
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The Magic of the Muse
by Parker Tilghman
Danny Keith at Wentrup
November 10th, 2012 - December 21st, 2012
Posted
11/12/12
Wyeth had Helga. Warhol had Edie. Man Ray had Kiki. Godard had Anna. Ann Demeulemeester has Patti and Collier Schorr has Jens. There is nothing quite like the perfect muse and it’s captivating to think of the power and presence a person must possess to be able to inspire some of the most gifted artists in history. It’s complex, this relationship between artist and muse. It is at once evocative and revealing, exposing the soul of the artist in such a way that an artwork’s emotional connecti... [more]
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[VIDEO] Interview with Tamás St.Turba
by The Karte
Jakup Ferri, ION GRIGORESCU, JAROSLAV KYSA, Imre Lepsényi, Société Réaliste, Tamas St.Turba, Ulrich Vogl at Balassi Institut - Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB)
October 19th, 2012 - January 27th
Posted
11/11/12
In 1992, after he had returned from his exile in Switzerland, IPUT / ST. TURBA transformed the Statue of Liberty in Budapest into a soul. He covered the 40-metre-tall statue – which had been built under the Stalinist regime on the occasion of the liberation of Budapest by the Red Army from the Nazi occupation – in a huge, white gown with two black holes for eyes and it blew there in the wind for four days above Budapest. The Statue of Liberty’s Soul remains, more then twenty years after its first appearance, a l... [more]
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A Million Pictures
by Parker Tilghman
Alessio delli Castelli at Dan Gunn
September 29th, 2012 - November 10th, 2012
Posted
10/30/12
Some might say that Alessio delli Castelli’s view towards art is a bit jaded, pessimistic even. At the center of his practice rests the antithetical notion that every possible image has already been created in various guises. For him, contemporary art is merely a regurgitation of things past only with a glossier veneer. In his current solo exhibition at Dan Gunn in Berlin, this manifesto takes the shape of haphazard collages, failed sculpture, and a simple site-specific installation. The show... [more]
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Transits and Masquerades: The Explorations of Simon Starling
by Nicole Rodriguez
Simon Starling at Neugerriemschneider
September 15th, 2012 - October 20th, 2012
Posted
10/16/12
The soft-edged nylon rollers of the Steenbeck flatbed film editing table speed up and come to a stop, whirring as they coil and snake around, caught in a maze of modern technology and unable to escape. The hum of the machine pauses as disembodied hands appear on screen—they give a poised snip here, a snip there. The whirring starts again under the dry and authoritative narration of the craftsman who, presumably hunched over, is hard at work reconstructing a history.
Unidentified, this anonymous 35mm editor i... [more]
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Meet Elisabeth Mladenov: In Bed
by Nicole Rodriguez
Posted
10/10/12
It usually happens moments after waking—lingering at the edge of our dreams, still held in suspended logic, before we’re jolted back into recognition and contemplation. Here, caught in the cross-tides of our wandering logic, we allow an uncanny process of rearranging ourselves, untangling our thoughts, fears, and desires. Interpretations become condensed and superimposed upon one another. Navigating this misty nether-time we let our minds wander. Past, present and future silently accordion,... [more]
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On the cusp.
by Nicole Rodriguez
at daadgalerie
September 9th, 2012 - October 20th, 2012
Posted
10/1/12
While there exists endless research, and countless indexes and catalogs surrounding an artist’s quantifiable completed work, unrealized or half-baked utopian ideas abandoned at the worktable rarely make the cut or wander into discourse. But it’s these overtly utopian ideas—the unattainables—that would seemingly contextualize that oeuvre that comes to define the names attached to them.
An ongoing venture devised by Serpentine Gallery director Hans Ulrich Obrist and co-director Julia Peyton... [more]
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The Fickle Moon
by Parker Tilghman
Anna Betbeze at Lüttgenmeijer
September 8th, 2012 - October 27th, 2012
Posted
9/17/12
O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Romeo has just sworn to the moon that he loves Juliet with all of his being, but for Juliet this is not enough. She finds the moon unstable. She urges Romeo not to promise this way because she worries that his love will not be consistent. This line resurfaces for me each time I catch a glimpse of the scarred surface of our celestial neighbor. A... [more]
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Politics | Art | Berlin
by Max Nesterak
Posted
9/12/12
Political art has claimed Germany’s attention this year, and it doesn’t seem to be letting go. In the past year, the world has watched new democracies take shape in the Middle East, the simultaneous Occupations of financial districts around the globe, and the seemingly instant international fame of artists arrested by restrictive governments in Russia and China. The 7th Berlin Biennale, co-curated by Voina, the not-so-distant ancestor of the Russian political art group Pussy Riot (one of those instant... [more]
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Berlin’s New Kunstherbst
by Nicole Rodriguez
Posted
9/11/12
Art fair season is a delicate negotiation between time and interest: a balancing act between crowd surfing, booth gazing, chitchat and artwork hovering. Disparate events claim your schedule and force you to taxi around a city, time crunching it all in, arriving slightly damp everywhere you land. This year consolidation is king.
While Berlin’s Kunstherbst is not exactly a novelty, with last year’s demise of famed fair Art Forum (R.I.P. 1996-2011) Berlin’s major institutions of contemporary... [more]
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