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Contemporary Attitudes Towards Nature

by ArtSlant Team
Darren Almond, John Bock, Carroll Dunham, Roe Ethridge, Liam Gillick, Henrik Håkansson, Lothar Hempel, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Jim Lambie, Albert Oehlen, Lari Pittman, Thomas Struth at Gerhardsen Gerner November 12th, 2010 - January 14th, 2011
Posted 12/14/10

In this group exhibition at Gerhardsen Gerner, twelve artists investigate contemporary attitudes toward nature.In their celebrated text "Dialektik der Aufklärung / Dialectic of Enlightenment” (1944), Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer write that “the fully enlightened Earth radiates disaster triumphant”. While this insight is now more than half a century old, it still rings true. We live in an age of disappearance: in a world with no blank spots left on the map, we are more lik... [more]

Utter Madness

by ArtSlant Team
Franz Ackermann, Paweł Althamer, Heike Aumüller, BARarchitekten, Pavel Büchler, Matti Isan Blind, Anna und Bernhard Blume, Brandlhuber+, Björn Braun, Andreas Bunte, Matthew Burbidge, Nina Canell, Franziska Cordes, Björn Dahlem, Sean Edwards, Karsten Födinger, Martin Fletcher, Saul Fletcher, Heiner Franzen, Mathew Hale, Raimund Harmstorf, John Hejduk, Gregor Hildebrandt, Anuschka Hoevener, Vinyl Terror & Horror, Sergej Jensen, Stefan Kern, Martin Kippenberger, Harald Klingelhöller, FAT KOEHL, Lachenmann, Ludwig Leo, Sergio Leone, Klara Lidén, Adrian Lohmüller, Lone Haugaard Madsen, Paul McCarthy, Sandra Meisel, Isa Melsheimer, Meuser, Matt Mullican, Ascan Pinckernelle, Julian Rosefeldt, Jane Russell, Michael Sailstorfer, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Albrecht Schäfer, Christoph Schlingensief, Armand Schulthess, Andreas Slominski, Discoteca Flaming Star, Sven Temper, Rirkrit Tiravanija, And Also The Trees, Kara Uzelman, Edgar Varèse, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing, JOHANNES WALD, Franz West, Ingrid Wiener, Iannis Xenakis, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Heimo Zobernig at Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin July 2nd, 2010 - August 31st, 2010
Posted 8/10/10

For FischGrätenMelkStand – the final project at Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin – the artist John Bock has developed a masterful meta-structure within which he installs works by 63 artists. An eleven-meter-tall walk-in steel construction creates a range of spatial situations over four levels, linking the individual works into a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork. Unlike the classic white cube, this scenario offers the works on show anything but a neutral setting. Within a structure t... [more]

John Bock - Curve-Vehicle incl.π- Man-(.)

by Joyce Cronin
John Bock at Barbican Art Gallery June 10th, 2010 - September 12th, 2010
Posted 7/10/10

The power of the absurd to make a serious comment on society has long been used as a device by artists to confront and entice audiences. It is deployed by John Bock in his new installation Curve-Vehicle incl. - Man-(.), comprised of a film screening of one of his ‘lectures’ - a live performance in the space using actors interacting with sculptural elements. The vehicle itself is a futuristic, motorised mobile home made up of a tower of pods, each with some semblance of a li... [more]

Whence Derives a Dérive?

by Emily Nathan
John Bock at Anton Kern Gallery February 27th, 2010 - April 3rd, 2010
Posted 3/14/10

German Artist John Bock’s fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery is difficult to summarize. Consisting of a two-channel video projection, a large submarine-like metal contraption and associated video, a series of hanging “soft sculptures” reminiscent of the jumbled, nostalgic pages of a scrap book, and a lecture-dance-performance which took place on opening night and will replay in the form of a slide-projection installation throughout the run of the exhibition, Bock’s occupation... [more]