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Matthew Barney After Ruby Ridge

30 August 2021 • Mark Westall

Galerie Max Hetzler is to present After Ruby Ridge, a solo exhibition of recent works by Matthew Barney at Bleibtreustraße… Read More

Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery to open 5th gallery space in 17th century German château.

29 July 2021 • Mark Westall

Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery has announced the opening of its fifth gallery space at Schloss Görne, Germany with a large-scale summer… Read More

Artists and creatives from all over the world flock to Berlin to live and work. What makes the city such an attraction?

10 May 2021 • Shireen Ikramullah

Berlin is a city where nothing stands still for long, and, over the last few years, the city has become… Read More

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New commission by Berlin-based artists Peles Empire to open at E-WERK Luckenwalde

7 April 2021 • Mark Westall

E-WERK Luckenwalde has announced its first project of 2021, in the third year of programming at the world’s first arts… Read More

E-Werk Luckenwalde launches Kickstarter campaign to bring award-winning beach opera to iconic Bauhaus swimming pool.

5 March 2021 • Mark Westall

E-WERK Luckenwalde have launched a major fundraising campaign to help bring the critically acclaimed beach-opera Sun & Sea to the spectacular neighbouring disused Bauhaus-era Stadtbad this Spring.

New Cindy Sherman exhibition to open.

18 November 2020 • Mark Westall

An exhibition of new works by Cindy Sherman is to open this week, one of the most influential artists internationally who has been associated with Sprüth Magers since the 1980s. I

Interview with Aeneas Bastian, on the occasion of the forthcoming opening of his new gallery in Berlin

8 November 2020 • Irene Machetti

I managed to catch up with Aeneas Bastian and ask him some questions ahead of the opening of their new gallery space in Berlin.

Katharina Grosse At 30 paces she could split a playing card

30 October 2020 • Mark Westall

KÖNIG GALERIE presents At 30 paces she could split a playing card, an exhibition featuring new works by Katharina Grosse in the NAVE of St. Agnes. On display are new, large-format works on canvas and plywood, which were created in Berlin and New Zealand.

BASTIAN gallery to open a new exhibition space designed by John Pawson in Berlin

15 October 2020 • Mark Westall

The Bastian family are to establish a new gallery space in Berlin Dahlem, Taylorstraße. With construction already underway, the opening of the gallery space is scheduled for Autumn 2021.

Takashi Murakami: Michel Majerus Superflat

8 September 2020 • Mark Westall

The Michel Majerus Estate new exhibition is Takashi Murakami: Michel Majerus Superflat, curated by Tobias Berger. Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) and Michel Majerus (1967–2002) both started exhibiting widely in the mid-1990s and can be considered the first generation of artists who fully embraced post-analog.

A new comprehensive solo exhibition from Bridget Riley

2 September 2020 • Mark Westall

Galerie Max Hetzler has announced a comprehensive solo exhibition with works by internationally acclaimed artist Bridget Riley on view across all three gallery locations in Berlin. This is the artist’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery.

E-WERK Luckenwalde announces utopian sculptural programme.

28 July 2020 • Mark Westall

This Autumn, E-WERK Luckenwalde will launch two new permanent commissions: a sculpture for the city providing free electricity for citizen’s bicycles and TRAFO, a low carbon public kitchen bar.

Elmgreen & Dragset SHORT STORY

19 May 2020 • Mark Westall

For their first solo exhibition at KÖNIG GALERIE in Berlin, Elmgreen & Dragset will present three new figurative sculptures within an immersive setting that transforms the visual appearance of the upper gallery, the NAVE, at St. Agnes.

Comfort Stops

25 September 2019 • Paul Carey-Kent

Spend a day wandering around a large art fair or a city’s galleries, and you will need the odd ‘comfort break’. In Berlin recently, however, there were several interesting works featuring the process itself.

Jeremy Shaw – I Can See Forever

23 November 2018 • Mark Westall

Jeremy Shaw’s artistic practice is characterized by a complex use of effects and narrative devices in relation to perceptions of reality and expressions of ideology in contemporary art, film and popular media.

The Erotic, the Body & Technology

11 October 2018 • Mark Westall

For the Un_Becoming group exhibition, SomoS presents performative projects and ephemeral installations as critical and radical responses to the overlapping of sexuality and the body with technology; and dystopian and utopian perspectives on our technologically mediated view of sexuality.

My week in the art world – August, protracted

13 September 2018 • Staff

Two Thursdays ago, Dover Street held a series of openings. Amongst these were Victor Burgin ’s Voyage to Italy at Richard Saltoun and Harold Ancart’s Freeze at David Zwirner.

Berlin-based artist Martin Eder solo exhibition ‘Parasites’

21 August 2018 • Mark Westall

‘Parasites’ is a solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Martin Eder (b.1968, Augsburg), featuring major new paintings alongside work spanning over a decade of Eder’s career.

My week in the art world – Berlin vol. 2 – Corporeal incantations

8 August 2018 • Staff

I thought that the more interesting thread to tackle was that running from Gropius Bau’s Ana Mendieta and Philippe Parreno to Fleisch at the Altes Museum.

My week in the art world – Berlin vol. 1 – Traces of tactility

26 July 2018 • Staff

This week I flew over to Berlin for the first time to buy a few records, learn how to wear a bum bag as a cross body bag, and, most importantly, to see some wonderfully curated shows. As I had time to consider these in the past few days I realised that tactility and memory were threads connecting Henrique Neves, Louise Bourgeois and Philip Wiegard as each artist presented traces of his or her past through their chosen medium.

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