Viktoria Binschtok's photographs are as blurry and mysterious as the situations that her subjects have been hired to navigate. In "Suspicious Minds," we never see the photographs' central subjects.
Rather than displaying the entire news photograph that she appropriates and blows up to massive proportions, the Russian-born photographer zooms in the people around the periphery hired to protect whomever's appearance is the reason why the image was taken.
Binschtok's source mat... [more]
BERLIN DESIGN DUO:
Jennifer Gilpin & Kyle Callanan
"Leather is grown not made. It is skin. We feel naturally connected to it," declares Canadian-born and Berlin-based Jennifer Gilpin of the design duo Don't Shoot the Messengers. With her partner, fashion and costume designer Kyle Callanan, Gilpin focuses on supple geometrically-cut leather dresses and skirts. The team began their collaboration after Gilpin's travels in Morocco inspired her interest in the sensual qualities of leather. Original... [more]
Properly Preserving Memory by Abhilasha Singh Julian Bismuth, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Anetta Mona Chişa, REP Group, David Levine, Ciprian Mureşan, Lucia Nimkova, Sean Snyder, Lucia Tkáčová, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Yang Zhenzhong at FEINKOST
November 7th - December 20th
Posted
11/16/09
FEINKOST is pleased to present the group exhibition entitled “Communism Never Happened”. Taking its title from a work by artist Ciprian Mureşan, the show explores different modes of archiving, processing, assimilating and forgetting.
Do math equations in your head. In Mureşan’s work the title phrase was cut from vinyl records of propaganda. This now unconfirmable recording functions here as a revised text, the original source compromised to convey new information. Legibili... [more]
Group Show by Abhilasha Singh Stefanie Bühler, Anne Hughes, Chrisitian Korth, Roman Lipski, YUDI NOOR, Jovana Popic, Christian Schoenwaelder, André Temple, Markus Zimmermann at Galerie Birgit Ostermeier
November 6th - December 12th
Posted
11/16/09
In their group show at the end of the year, the gallery’s artist reveal of glimpse of their current creative period. On display are new works by Stefanie Bühler, André Temple, Yudi Noor (sculpture), Anne Hughes, Markus Zimmermann (collage), Jovana Popic, Christian Schoenwaelder (drawing), Roman Lipski (painting), and a relief by Chrisitian Korth. The particular allure lies in the diversity of issues that have occupied artists, which have brought up a variety of materials for e... [more]
Live Issue by Hili Perlson Pigenius Cave, Brad Downey, RZM - Ritsche Koch, Mischa Leinkauf, Christian Marien, Matthias Wermke, Zasd at Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien
November 7th - November 29th
Posted
11/8/09
With its dominant street charm and DIY flair, it seems fitting that Berlin is the birthplace for a project like Backjumps - a magazine for “Urban Communication and Aesthetic” cum art event. The magazine was introduced in 1994 and is now available in museum book-stores (Palais de Tokyo, Tate Modern etc.) without having lost any of its street cred. To promote and celebrate the magazine’s growing popularity, Editor Adrian Nabi inaugurated Backjump’s Live Issue in 2005 - a bienn... [more]
“These pictures come out of relationships, not observation.” --
Nan GoldinNan Goldin’s photographs are as touching and shocking today as they were thirty years ago. Their fascination does not necessarily stem from their subject matter—oscillating, as it does, between glamour and the gutter, with rare moments of normality and happiness—but from their radical intimacy. Goldin approaches only those who are close to her with her camera, thus sensitively capturing the everyday... [more]
Last weekend, Berlin’s institute for film and video art Arsenal and the theatre Hebbel am Ufer held the festival "LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World" in celebration of the acclaimed, yet largely obscure filmmaker and pioneer of underground cinema Jack Smith.
Often referred to as the founding father of American performance art, Smith's aesthetics have influenced a generation of theater companies - from Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, and Charles Ludlam to th... [more]
Neil Gallʼs art is constantly moving and changing. The London artist transfers his ideas from one artistic medium to another. Neil Gall uses commonplace items such as plasticine, thread, cardboard, tape or rags to create fantastic objects and landscapes that, once photographed, become paintings, collages and drawings.
The transfer breathes life into the representatives of the world of non-living objects, lends them a new unity and essentiality. The artist takes advantage of the human... [more]
Galerie Barbara Weiss is pleased to present our fourth solo exhibition by Monika Baer. The title of the show, o – to – i, refers to a specific dynamic between heterogeneous motifs and elements of Baer’s paintings. The mental and emotional space that opens up within each picture and also between the various pictures cannot be separated from the material motifs and styles of painting the artist employs. Breast and seam, wall and hole, hole and eye, web and frame, mortar and segme... [more]
As a member of the North African community, Kader Attia (born 1970, France) has spent the past several years examining the tangle of identity conflicts that have contributed to recent difficult events. His art is rooted in the complex relations between East and West, and it reflects the charged eoncounter between these markedly different worlds—an urprooted North African culture and a seductive Western consumer culture. Deeply embedded within this duality, his work ref... [more]
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