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Jaunting to K’ruhe
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, ©2010 ZKM When asked a few weeks ago to accompany a friend to Karlsruhe earlier this month for Elmgreen & Dragset‘s opening of Celebrity: The One and The Many at ZKM,...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Stage your Melodrama: An Elmgreen and a Dragset
When the art historians start treading through Berlin’s turn-of-the-millennium years to chart artists’ march to Neukölln, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset‘s studio will be a main stop for tea and...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: January Jones
January isn’t often a big month for art, and the same usually goes for Berlin, but this year, galleries seem to be pushing things a bit further to present exciting shows, even if a majority of them...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
I fly back to Berlin tomorrow, finally ending a prolonged Kerouac walk-through of mid-sized southern cities; a spring break for the “mild girl.” During my Texas stay, a sun constitutional in Austin...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
Absalon, "Modèles des cellules habitables," 1991 Photo: Ethan Hayes-Chute. It was back in 2005 when I first encountered the work of Absalon at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof in a exhibition called Fast...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Richard Long, "Berlin Circle," exhibition view, Hamburger Bahnhof. Photo: Anna Milandri. Richard Long’s artistic medium, since the 1960s, has been walking. On his walks all over the world, he uses...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Fratty Art
With its manic art world mingling, Gallery Weekend in Berlin can seem like a frat party with more tote bags. It is Berlin’s promenade into spring and is full of amateur cyclists, bunker parties and...
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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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Jaunting to K’ruhe
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, ©2010 ZKM When asked a few weeks ago to accompany a friend to Karlsruhe earlier this month for Elmgreen & Dragset‘s opening of Celebrity: The One and The Many at ZKM,...
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