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MONO.KULTUR #49: SANTIAGO SIERRA

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Dear Friends,
within the general feeling of unease, we are thrilled to present our new issue mono.kultur #49 with Spanish artist and activist Santiago Sierra, widely acclaimed and frequently despised for his controversial performances that aim straight for the point where it hurts the most.
Santiago Sierra is perhaps best known for his infamous ‘remunerated actions’, in [...]

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BERLIN TEXTILES

Friday, June 7, 2019

It’s the last two days you can dig into the Berlin takeover at Everpress, a charming sort-of-like Kickstarter start-up for T-shirts from London. The idea is based on a similar principle: you can upload any design you want to see printed on a T, rally your friends and the rest of the world into ordering [...]

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SPACE SHOW

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Congratulations to Trevor Paglen for two simultaneous solo museum surveys, at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. If stuck in Europe or elsewhere, you can of course always fall back on last year’s mono.kultur #44 with a lengthy discussion well worth reading.
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Image: STSS-1 and Two Unidentified Spacecraft over Carson [...]

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TELE

Monday, April 23, 2018

Our very first cover star Carsten Nicolai’s new tele double laser quantum installation at Berlinische Galerie.

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mono.punkt #41: VERNACULAR ART BOOK FAIR MEXICO

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Easter weekend is upon us, even though we wouldn’t guess so given the snowy skies here in Berlin, but Mexico, ah Mexico must be a different story altogether. And what better way to spend your Easter weekend than by browsing through some fine books by some of the finest independent publishers, all brought to you [...]

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STORE OF THE MONTH: IVORYPRESS / MADRID

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Ivorypress in Madrid is one of those remarkable projects that grew from a small artist’s publishing project into an indie empire of publishing house, gallery, bookstore and arts consultancy. Needless to say, all done with plenty of energy, dedication, cojones and impeccable style. And a well-sorted arts bookstore, well, we’re all for it [...]

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WINONA

Monday, January 15, 2018

“Winona” by Trevor Paglen as part of the Eigenface series, where Paglen trained a facial recognition software to identify chosen characters in the ‘Wild Dataset’ of the Internet. It is a small part of his decade-long work in progress on computer vision. Hear all about it tomorrow evening at our mono.klub #52, where Paglen talks [...]

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CHRIS WARE: SOMEONE I’M NOT

Sunday, August 6, 2017

Check out mono.kultur #30 Chris Ware in a new film by Art21, “Chris Ware: Someone I’m Not“. From his home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, artist Chris Ware shares motivations and challenges for telling stories from the perspectives of others in his work. “I distinctly remember being told by my teachers, if you draw women, [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #43: FATIMA AL QADIRI

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Dear Friends,
the world has taken a darker turn since we last spoke, so we feel it’s a fitting time for our new issue mono.kultur #43 with Kuwaiti producer and visual artist Fatima Al Qadiri.
Bending and fusing different genres of music, Al Qadiri has released a handful of largely instrumental albums that often imply [...]

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SOPHIE CALLE / HERE LIE THE SECRETS OF THE VISITORS OF GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Creative Time has recently announced the commission of Here Lie the Secrets of the Visitors of Green-Wood Cemetery,  a 25 year long new public artwork by the internationally renowned French conceptual artist and current mono.kultur cover star, Sophie Calle co-presented with Green-Wood Cemetery. The project will debut with a two daylong inaugural event on April 29th and 30th, [...]

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