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MOVE & SCALE

Monday, January 20, 2014

If you are out and about in Lower Saxony this weekend, don’t miss Hella Gerlach’s performative intervention Move and Scale (cancelset) at the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim! Within the framework of a series of events called ‘Von den Dingen’ (About the Things) organised by the Kunstverein Hildesheim, Gerlach will engage with the ancient Egyptian [...]

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COLLABORATION

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Collaboration is an ongoing performance series by William ‘Bilwa‘ Costa and Jasmin Schaitl. In their own words collaboration ‘explores the correlation between, and the potentials of; transformation, alteration, duration and ephemerality’.
Collaboration #1, #2 and #3,  took place in mo.e (Vienna), Friday Exit (Vienna), Grünthaler 9 (Berlin). The appealing point of the series is their simplicity: everyday movements, [...]

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NOT THAT KIND OF PRINT

Friday, September 27, 2013

1 R.I.P. Alexander Mcqueen.
2 Democratically or not, today’s sartorial companies increasingly busy themselves with producing competent chic for the lowest common denominator leaving the modern modester to angst over the fate of haute couture.
Never fear: Iris van Herpen will provide your inner sartorialist ample relief.
Though the Dutch designer is just 29 years old and her house only 6, [...]

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FLEX

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Berlin Art Week is coming up next week, and before we go off for an art overkill, why not start a bit earlier with a contemporary art ‘gymnastic excersise’ for a warm-up with the Berlin-based artist Hella Gerlach. By engaging in a dialogue with the architectural, physical and social body, Gerlach transforms the gallery space [...]

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THIS IS WHAT I LEAVE YOU AFTER MYSELF

Monday, September 9, 2013

In post-war Europe the polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow (1926-73) experimented with new materials such as polyester resin to create casts often of her own body, a body that had been exposed to war and decease. The casts, imprints, she reassembled into surrealistic, affecting montages. This Is What I Leave You After Myself is part of [...]

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WALL BUBBLE

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Wonderful: Anish Kapoor in Berlin.

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Thursday, June 27, 2013

A new contemporary performing arts festival Foreign Affairs by Berliner Festsipele brings the beauteous choreographies of legendary William Forsythe and more on stage…

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FRESH FROM THE OVEN

Friday, June 14, 2013

‘Let them eat pepper gas’
Recep Tayyip Antoinette
‘Welcome the the gas festival’, ‘There is a beach under the stones’, ‘There is a revolution going on here, Signorita’,‘I could not find a slogan’ were some of the slogans written on the walls of beauteous cities of Turkey, the land of pepper. All you have been seeing in the news was a [...]

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KAPOOR IN BERLIN

Friday, May 24, 2013

Martin-Gropius-Bau now hosts a large exhibition featuring sculptural works and installations of widely acclaimed contemporary artist Anish Kapoor. What a treat.
Kapoor in Berlin
May 18th – November 24th

Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchnerstraße 7
10963 Berlin

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FAUX MARBLING

Sunday, May 12, 2013

What is it that makes marble and its pattern so omnipresent these days? Originally composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, today the motive of marble is not only used in contemporary art, but also in fashion and textile production. Commonly used for sculpture and as building material, it now seems to be trendy to envelop the [...]

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