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Monthly Archives: April 2016

BERLIN GALLERY WEEKEND #03: WHITE CIRCLE

Another 20 year-anniversary, by our friends at Raster-Noton, celebrated with the sound installation White Circle at Berghain. Congrats!

BERLIN GALLERY WEEKEND #02: LODOWN 100

Congratulations to our friends at Lodown for their 100th (& final) issue. Over two decades of independent publishing… chapeau!

BERLIN GALLERY WEEKEND #01: EDMUND DE WAAL

COMMUNITY ART

After decades of implied politics within his work, Wolfgang Tillmans has taken a refreshing and more outspoken position that addresses political issues head on: first turning his gallery space Between Bridges in Berlin into a temporary ‘meeting place’ to discuss the refugee crisis: ‘From this month Between Bridges wants to be a forum, however small; [...]

TAOBAO SCROLLS

The extremes in which capitalism tries to arouse desire overflow in Taobao, the Chinese online shopping giant. Images that suspiciously resemble post-internet art litter its pages, but their surreality is common to many advertisements throughout history (if more exaggerated). One wonders how much is lost in translation, how much are disgruntled young creatives finding outlets [...]

GOING HOME

Ásgeir – Going Home (Offical Video) from One Little Indian Records on Vimeo.
I kind of missed this when it came out in 2013, but now, as I‘m coming home soon again, I feel like having heard it before.

LIBROS MUTANTES

Started today: The annual independent editorial fair in Madrid. Come over!

MONO.KULTUR #40 / SOUNDBITE 03

In the making: mono.kultur #40.

REFLEKTOR DISTORTION

Opening tonight: Reflektor Distortion by our first ever cover star, Carsten Nicolai, at Galerie Eigen+Art, experimenting with hree states of a reflection: mirroring, distortion, and disturbance. Sounds like prime Nicolai to us, and see you there.
Carsten Nicolai: Reflektor Distortion
21 April – 28 May 2016
Galerie Eigen+Art
Auguststraße 26
D – 10117 Berlin

MEANWHILE, AT THE PRINTERS

At the printers: mono.kultur #40, shifting from virtual to physical reality. Nice!