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.
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My week in the art world – Berlin vol. 2 – Corporeal incantations
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.
Continue Reading...Melike Kara: Köpek
Melike Kara’s work addresses the basic ideas of what it means to belong, and how people behave when they have to deal with each other.
Continue Reading...Wolf Kino: Berlin’s Newest Cinema
Wolf Kino, the city’s newest cinema, opened its doors for the first time as part of the “Berlinale Goes Kiez” section of the film festival that explores Berlin’s many small, neighbourhood cinemas.
Continue Reading...Creative machines, humans and cyborgs at Retune 2016
While London was busy courting the traditional art world at Frieze, Berlin celebrated the artists, hackers, makers and producers of the digital age at Retune Festival.
Continue Reading...Berlin gallery Supportico Lopez Opens the Season with a Theatrical Group Show
The group show “Carpet for a Lord” at the Berlin gallery of Supportico Lopez takes its name
from a 1991 work by Henri Chopin (1922-2008), the avant-garde artist, poet and musician, and features the work of eight artists, including early career artists, Charlie Billingham, Than Hussein Clark, Daniel Milvio, Jill Mulleady and Ola Vasiljeva, and established artists, Judith Hopf, Ettore Spalletti and Haim Steinbach.
Memories of Conflict: Paul’s ART STUFF ON A TRAIN #164
Even by my standards, which I admit are a little crazy, I saw a lot of art in the week ending 5 May,
Continue Reading...Paul’s ART STUFF on a train and plane # 54: ‘Those Gallery Weekends Compared’
Most days art Critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in Surrey. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?
Continue Reading...Berlin Wall’s most iconic paintings under threat from property developers
Berlin’s most famous images, such as Brezhnev and Honecker’s kiss, are on part of the wall set to be demolished for luxury flats
Continue Reading...A dreamy distillation of the cityscape in The Street Aesthetic of Berlin, a short film from Christian Andersen
The particular stillness achieved lies somewhere between Andersen’s juxtaposition of colour drenched abstractions and the music accompanying the footage..
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