The photos give impressions of the exhibition that followed my performance piece „The Teacher“. This performance is centered around a teacher puppet which is operated under great strain by a reclining disciple. Thus, the teacher enters a didactic fury, a kind of hectic dance which…
Als ich das erste Mal im Wald war brachte ich keine Taschenlampe mit. Die Sonne ging unter und ich wusste nicht, wo ich war. Eine Fremde überkam mich, weil ich den Ort nicht mehr überblicken konnte, den ich doch so oft vor Augen gehabt hatte.…
In his book The Black Atlantic, published in 1993, Paul Gilroy describes the emergence of a hybrid „counterculture of modernity“ that is „not specifically African, American, Ca-ribbean, or European, but a combination of all“1. According to Gilroy, the transgression of ethnic and national categories is…
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29.06. – 18.08.2019 In the lavishly indulgent excess of Rococo with its moodily curved, delicate and yet overbearingly sprawling forms, the ornament begins to devour the image, its essential counterpart, replacing it with ruthless ease. Inevitably, the ornament’s emancipation of its host and serving purpose,…
“not that I expected to be in the center, just to take a part Just not made invisible by a single hand gesture Looked right through Then five glasses later he unexpectedly bent over and whispered some carefully chosen set of advises I recently learned…
The expansion of the universe is a much-discussed point of contention in the sciences. Astrophysicists and astronomers have found themselves confronted with it over the last two decades more so than ever. The dilemma dubbed Cosmic Confusion and approaches to its solution not only point…
We occupy many worlds — those of love, work, play, labor, religion — and we are different selves in each. We are unified, but not seamlessly. There are cracks between our many selves. These cracks are entrances to Memory Hole, the aperture to our own…
Markus Liehr / Sotheby’s Series / Open White Gallery The SOTHEBY’S SERIES was created after a month long stay in Los Angeles and Las Vegas -a place where the perception of time, space and value of money quickly becomes blurred. When passing by a Sotheby’s…
Keren Cytter & John Roebas Curated by Natalie Keppler & Andreas Wagner in collaboration with HAMLET Keren Cytter (*1977 in Tel Aviv, Israel) choreographs an exhibition from drawings, two newly produced animated films and videos in which „Size Matters“. The personal examination of childhood and…
Benjamin Bernt, Jillian Sieber Esprit Ecstasy The wings grazed the poles, Then I got lost against myself We arrived in a dangerous zone A remote place. On the hood of this silver spirit scout the silver Venus Light veils fly through the outposts Haughty, contemptuous,…
Talisa Lallai, Jon Eirik Kopperud and Michaela Meise. Organized by Kenneth Alme TO THE PORT Do you know the land where the lemon-trees grow, In darkened leaves the gold-oranges glow, A soft wind blows from the pure blue sky, The myrtle stands mute, and the…
Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucie Tkáčová, Josef Dabernig & Rudolf Prohazka, Melanie Ebenhoch, Barbara Kapusta, Barbara Kleinhamplová, Stanislav Kolíbal, Axel Koschier, Elke Krystufek, Jimena Mendoza, Lukas Thaler, Philipp Timischl, Kateřina Vincourová & Thomas Geiger and Jiří Kovanda Fauxthenticity The Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague and…
Oscar Bedford, Margaux Dewarrat, Chris Zacher “Ascending” cannot exist without “descending”. The two actions fluctuate and vibrate rapidly back and forth over any span of time. Minor gains are countered by equally minor losses and a tedious balance persists, impeding growth and orientation. Through emotional…
In the garden I glimpsed a cheap replica of an ancient statue. The naked woman had bent arms which suddenly ended with wrists. I saw the statue in motion, from the window of a passing tram. For a moment, the statue’s pain seemed real. Amputation…
David Dale Gallery is proud to present Hysteresis, the first solo exhibition in Scotland by artist and writer Morgan Quaintance. An installation of three films, each work deals with how past events have impacted, or been occluded from, the UK’s artistic and socio-cultural present. From…
The filmmaker Sebastian Heindorff captured this years graduates of Städelschule in Frankfurt. Their graduation show takes place at the Städelmuseum, titled „Air Conditioned“, curated by Paula Kommoss and Il-Jin Choi. Works by: José Montealegre, Kristin Reiman (Opera in the background), Xenia Bond, Sóley Ragnarsdóttir, Max Negrelli, Stian Hansen, Immanuel…
For KubaParis, Amelie gr. Darrelmann talked to Marcus Ryberg about fashion, art and and sustainability. Amelie: In your very first project, eight pioneering artists from Berlin have re-designed 48 pairs of vintage jeans addressing the theme of water. You come from Stockholm and have been…
Fenja Cambeis, Béla Feldberg, Moritz Haas, Felix Krapp, Lukas Müller, Kiki Soleil,SOnja Yakovleva AURA/SOMA pls help an invitation by Amanda Weimer „It is not the religious, ritual or explanatory nature of a narrative that makes it a myth, but rather the fact that it belongs…
Fountain Sif Itona Westerberg’s first institutional solo show Creatures composed of different animals were once the domain of mythology. Today, such creatures are cultivated by the very same modern science, which systematically has challenged religious worldviews, superstition and the existence of supernatural beings. Chimeras no…