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Renzo Martens
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The Temporary Stedelijk: Monumentalism and Taking Place
by Andrea Alessi
Yael Bartana, Ruth Buchanan, Mieke Van de Voort, Hala Elkoussy, Marianne Flotron, Zachary Formwalt, Melissa Gordon, David Jablonowski, Rob Johannesma, Iris Kensmil, Gert Jan Kocken, Job Koelewijn, Rachel Koolen, Renzo Martens, Lucia Nimcova, Lonnie van Brummelen / Siebren de Haan, Nicoline van Harskamp, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Barbara Visser at Stedelijk Museum
August 28th, 2010 - January 9th, 2011
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8/31/10
This weekend I visited Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum for the first time. While this probably sounds like an unforgivable oversight (or just plain laziness) to you, it’s not. The Stedelijk, Amsterdam’s only modern and contemporary art museum, has been closed for years undergoing renovations and the construction of a new extension. Don’t get too excited – this is no grand reopening; more construction and closed doors are yet to come – but from August 28, 2010 until January 9, 2011 v... [more]
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Berlin Biennale: Real World Kreuzberg
by Mara Goldwyn
Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir, Bernard Bazile, Mark Boulos, Mohamed Bourouissa, Olga Chernysheva, Phil Collins, Minerva Cuevas, Shannon Ebner, Nir Evron, Nilbar Güres, Marcus Geiger, ION GRIGORESCU, Petrit Halilaj, Marlene Haring, Cameron Jamie, Sven-Åke Johansson, Thomas Judin, George Kuchar, Andrey Kuzkin, Thomas Locher, Adrian Lohmüller, Armando Lulaj, Renzo Martens, Adolf Menzel, Avi Mograbi, Henrik Olesen, Roman Ondák, Ferhat Ozgur, Pleurad Xhafa/Sokol Peci, Margaret Salmon, Hans Schabus, Michael Schmidt, Gedi Sibony, John Smith, Michael Stevenson, Sebastian Stumpf, Ron Tran, Danh Vo, Marie Voignier, Friedl vom Groller, Marion von Osten, Vincent Vulsma, Anna Witt at Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
2010-07-01
The name of the 6th Berlin Biennale is “What is Waiting Out There”. It is a meditation on reality.
Reality, the press release says.
I’ve lived in Berlin for four years. Now—as in those first months when I would spend myafternoons in Görlitzer Park after German class exhilarated, drinking 40-cent Sternberg beers flung out next to my GDR-era bike—there are, and were, people who have been here much longer than me.
Some of those old-timers were even here through ’89 and the W... [more]
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Interview with Renzo Martens
by Frances Guerin
2009-02-03
Jan. 2009 - Renzo Martens' Episode III - Enjoy Poverty, the second of a triptych on images of poverty, war and historical devastation as commodities, is currently screening at Wilkinson Gallery in London. ArtSlant's writer, Frances Guerin, talked to him by telephone about this work and other projects. The following interview came from those discussions.
Renzo Martens, Episode III, Color video, sound, 88 minutes. Courtesy of the ARtist and Wilkinson Gallery, London
"The World is a Spectator's Paradise"
- Renzo Martens
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