The Gallery Weekend Berlin 2017 – Part 2. More Galleries, More Nudity. (Berlin.) The second day of Gallery Weekend Berlin, and we’ll stay in the Potsdamer Strasse sector. As usual, the first stop down there i...
Berlin Gallery Weekend 2017 Part 1. Fairs, Galleries and Nudity (Berlin.) It’s that time of the year again! The 2017 edition of the “world’s largest art fair” (they still have not adopted that slogan),...
Ah, Those Pretty, Pretty, Flowers! And She Knew Her Science too – Maria Sybilla Merian at KSK Berlin (Berlin.) It’s spring again! Not only Easter is approaching, but if you live in a country celebrating Mother’s Day in May, you will be pa...
For the Gold Digger in Your Life: It’s All About the Chemistry. Al-chemy at Kulturforum (Berlin.) Much company they draw, and much abuse, // In casting figures, telling fortunes, news, // Selling of flies, flat bawdry, with t...
Black and White, and Ambivalence. Kemang Wa Lehulere at Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle (Berlin.) The Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle is always worth a visit, and especially so if you’re invited to one of their press previews. Altho...
Not to Praise Less Pretty Priceless but Prize-less Princesses. Three Painting Awards at BG (Berlin.) Berlinische Gallery, one of the city’s finest venues for contemporary art, has gone full painting, hosting not only one, but th...
Installing... Installing... Installation complete. Moving Is In Every Direction at Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin.) “Art installed in space” may appear under many names. “Narrative spaces” would be one, “environment” another. The curators of M...
Duchamp to Daimler, Handmade, Ready-Made, Fanmade (Berlin.) I’ve been to D.C. again. Daimler Contemporary, that is. Their latest show is about “ready-mades and beyond”, or, the exact titl...
Art'n'Eels, Bugs'n'Chips. Stoschek's back. (Berlin). Julia Stoschek Collection has opened a second show in Berlin, and this time you’re not expected to read a book or watch a film ...
The Berlinale Trilogy – A Prequel: Forum Expanded, Expanded (Berlin.) Last time we talked about art, we stopped short at the films of Forum Expanded. A restriction on telling about those before the...
The Berlinale Trilogy Part 3: Thoughts and Winners (Berlin.) The Berlinale is history, and soon we’ll talk about art again. But first... Berlinale Jury was composed of Paul Verhoeven (Tota...
The Berlinale Trilogy, A Spinoff – The Interview, starring Xu Haofeng (Berlin.) And now for something completely different... During this year’s Berlinale, the Asian Film & Television Promotion (AFTP), and t...
The Berlinale Trilogy, Part 2 – A Film Festival This page will be updated with more reviews as the festival continues. (Berlin.) The first days of Berlinale are over and the competition...
The Berlinale Trilogy, Part 1 – A Forum Expanded (Berlin.) I don’t know about you, but when I realize I’ve been staring at a screen for six hours and a half – not typing, or clicking, an...
Schering Foundation and Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Forming the Future (Berlin.) Feeling SAD? Schering (Pharmaceutics, now a subsidiary of Bayer, and no longer formally connected to the art activities) Founda...
You Haven’t Changed a Bit, KW Institute! A Reopening. (Berlin.) Imagine a famous art venue taking a four months’ vacation to break in the new boss, and do some much needed refurbishing. Imagi...
A New Year, A New Art? Four Berlin Gallery Shows (Berlin.) It might seem a bit late, but lest we forget: “Happy new Year!” What could be better to warm up to 2017 - not literally, mind: ...
Don’t Talk, Just Watch. A Day at the Movies with Omer Fast (Berlin.) Omer Fast’s video show Talking isn’t always the solution has opened about a month ago, but we did not write this review really ...
A Visit to Vincent van Gogh Museum, Guest Starring Monet, Daubigny and Pissarro (Amsterdam.) ”Maybe I should go and live in Amsterdam / In a side street near a big canal / Spend my evenings in the van Gogh Museum / Wh...
The Amsterdam Art Weekend 2016, Part 2: The Institutions (some of them) (Amsterdam.) The Amsterdam Art Weekend was not limited to commercial galleries. Even Manifesta hosted a show in their corporate headquart...
Up in Smoke. The Amsterdam Art Weekend 2016, Part 1: Gallery Night (Amsterdam.) I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right: Who would travel to Amsterdam, and not smoke weed? It’s like visiting Germany...
Picasso, Klee, Matisse, and Introducing George Condo at Berggruen Museum (Berlin.) No matter how long you live in a city, there is always a museum you have not visited yet. In Berlin, my biggest neglect in this...
Hieronymus Bosch with Friends, Fakers and Followers - All at Gemäldegalerie (Berlin.) A serious art collector, you are not in Berlin, not now, not in November. The fair-y season has not yet begun in Miami, and it’...
Dressing Up. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Schinkel Pavilion and Esther Schipper Gallery (Berlin.) 11 November marks the debut of the carnival season in (the catholic areas of) German speaking countries, a fact rather insignif...
