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Lives and Works in Berlin | Based in Berlin: Best of
I’ve been thinking about Based In Berlin for weeks. And while it’s been difficult to keep my pretentious guffaws in check, I have recognized that the show tackles the formidable (unfeasible?) but...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon. "Chapter VII, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters," 2008-2011. © Taryn Simon. Taryn Simon‘s solo-exhibition, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters (2008-2011) at the...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | The Mystery of Anna Pavlova
Film still from "Anna Pavlova" (2011), directed by Theo Solnik. Courtesy the artist. Anna Pavlova Lives in Berlin depicts the poetic and aggressive “Russian party queen,” of the same iconic name....
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Brenna Murphy and the Future
Installation view, <~self~nesting~sensr~> 2012, courtesy the Future Gallery. <~self~nesting~sensr~>, the current show at The Future Gallery, brings into real time the digitally...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Chicago’s Big Youth in Berlin
"Big Youth II," installation view, Jonathan Gardner + Betsy Odom, courtesy Bourourina Gallery. For the past few weeks, Berlin has been a whirring art world engine as Gallery Weekend and the Berlin...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Roman Ondák at the Deutsche Guggenheim
Roman Ondák. "do not walk outside this area," 2012. Installation view, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. Photo: Jens Ziehe. Courtesy the artist. This week, I took my visiting mother and sister to the Roman...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | John Holten + Broken Dimanche Press + The Readymades
"Un Coup de 3 Dés," by Brian Larosche. Image courtesy Broken Dimanche Press. I could write multiple portraits of John Holten, Berlin-based _________. One as the publisher of Broken Dimanche Press, a...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Berlin Gallery Roundup
Kazuko Miyamoto. "Live End Dream No," 2012. Image courtesy Exile Gallery. Kassel may be this continent’s art world sweetheart until September, but Berlin, in a petty rage directed towards its pretty,...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Art Hangover, Berlin
Michael Sailstorfer. “Forst (01),” 2010. Image courtesy www.stillinberlin.com. I’m still trying to process Berlin Art Week, which took place mid-September all across the city, and which, by all...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | The Evolution of Mike: Michael Smith in Berlin
I didn’t expect Mike, the prototypical everyman alter ego created by Michael Smith in 1979 to age, but thought instead that he might persist in the time-vacuum of the best serial comic characters: a...
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New column! Lives and Works in Berlin
Art21 is thrilled to announce the launch of our latest column. Heading the curriculum vitae of Berlin’s artists, curators, and other breeds of art junkies, Lives and Works in Berlin. A title both...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: BB6
Aligning smoothly with the start of Art Basel for the first time, the 6th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (BB6) opened this past week, two months later than its previous April time slot. While...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: Gender (and other) Trouble
Kara Hearn, "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts," ongoing series. Courtesy of the artist. Judith Butler, that radical Valkyrie of all things identity politics, caused quite a stir in Berlin recently. On June...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: The End of Temporary
On August 31, 2010, the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin (TKB) will close its doors as according to the original concept. With 8 major exhibitions, 3 facades, and other projects involving over 800 artists...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: Summertime
… and put your car on cruise and lay back cause this is summertime — Will Smith Berlin summers never fail to deliver their own magical moments, the kind that make you remember why you’re here, why you...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: The Sommerpause Art Guide
Nothing spells houseguest season like late-August in Berlin. With school about to resume and the major art metropolises shut down for summer, the town becomes besieged by the event hungry. But with...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile
During a recent visit to Exile Gallery, I spoke with guest curator Billy Miller about his concurrent shows Head Shop/Lost Horizon, which were a part of Exile’s annual Summer Camp Series. We chatted...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: Berlin’s Fair Weather
The grand entrance to Art Forum Berlin at Messe Berlin. Photo: Ethan Hayes-Chute To use a very versatile phrase, “It’s that time of year again.” In this case, we mean: it’s art fair-season in Berlin....
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Interview with AIDS-3D
Affiliated with a vivacious current of young artists melding techie chops and ’90s graphic aesthetics, the Berlin-based duo, AIDS-3D (Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmos) popped up on the radar last year...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: Feathers, Magic Mushrooms and Bicycle Tours
Bundle up, Berlin: winter is almost here, and it might be a long one, again. If you haven’t fallen prey to the sniffling, the sneezing, the nose-blowing and coughing, germ-spreading crowd on the...
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