'Canell' Pleasures Under the Sea: Nina Canell's Tectonic Tender at Berlinische Galerie
first published on newartexaminer.net (Berlin.) Just in time for Berlin Gallery Weekend - which happened again almost as normal this year...
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"The Shape of Freedom": Western and Far Western Abstraction at Barberini Museum, Potsdam
(Berlin.) Hasso Plattner is a man of many passions, from computers: co-founding software giant SAP provided him with the means to become...
Through the Year in Two Rooms and Some Centuries: David Hockney, Würth Collection, Gemäldegalerie
(Berlin.) When one of Germany's top collectors, "Master of Screws" (that's what he does, i.e. sells, for a - very good! - living) Mr....
Time is Money is Art: "Cash on the Wall(s)" of Berlin Volksbank Foundation Kunstforum
(Berlin.) Who in and out of the artworld would deny that we live in decidedly materialist times? It's not different in Berlin than...
In Space and Art, Nobody Can Hear You Scream - A Gigern-tesque Alien Invasion of Schinkel Pavillon
(Berlin.) Day-to-day being confronted with the apalling ugliness of Berlin, how many times have we not mentally quoted James Cameron's...
Meditation and Medication: Damien Hirst in Paris
written in October 2021 (Paris.) For various reasons, getting into the mood proved kind of hard when I visited Damien Hirst's first ever...
He "didded" it again, one last(?) time: The Arc de Triomphe wrapped by Christo & Jeanne-Claude
written in October 2021 and first published on newartexaminer.net (Paris.) You know how it is when a close relation has passed away:...
Back to the Woods: Christiane Löhr at Haus am Waldsee
(Berlin.) Mother Nature is a busy person(-inifaction) taking care of many things, from microscopic life forms regulating the...
Corona and Art, still/again
This text was written in February 2021. An abridged version has first been published in print by the New Art Examiner. "Life is finite."...
Berlinale 2021 - Day 5: NACAB, Hippie Teachers 'mkay?, and Fin
The first scenes of Alonso Ruizpalacios' Una película de policías ("A Cop Movie") feel very conventional, as the camera takes us on a...
Berlinale 2021 - Day 4: From Iran to Kinky Japan
First of all, let's ignore that elephant, well: bear, in the room. This year is different: Not only that Berlinale streamed online, or...
Berlinale 2021 - Day 3: Hung(a)ry For Some Light. Childish, Dead Serious, and Georgia On My Mind
1. Children's TV or Magical Realism, both? Petite Maman ("Little Mommy") is yet another French movie in Berlinale's selection. Also yet...
Berlinale 2021 - Day 2: Seabirds, Porn, and the Chronicle of a Massacre Foretold
1) The Natural Light is very dark Wintertime in Hungary, or Russia, Ukraine, some place in that vast region, we (ignorantly) like to call...
Not quite Netflix-and-chill, but: Berlinale-and-chilly-weather outside. A Different Festival
(Berlin.) Originally scheduled for February when it had to be postponed for the well known circumstances, Berlinale, the Berlin Film...
J.S. presents... J.S. - Jeremy Shaw Takes Julia Stoschek Collection on a Trip Back to the Future
first published on newartexaminer.net (Berlin.) It’s all very confusing indeed, and I don’t mean that virus thing, no: even before that...
“It Wasn’t Us” – It’s Katharina Grosse, and a Great Installation at Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof
first published on newartexaminer.net (Berlin.) Quite unexpectedly, a visitor’s first thought upon entering Katharina Grosse’s single...
Building Bridges, Among Other Things: Art and Architecture at Haus am Waldsee
(Berlin.) Remember that movie The Cabin in the Woods? It got kind of a cult following among horror/comedy fans, but rest assured:...
Un-/Veiled: Art In the Time of Corona. A Christo & Jeanne-Claude Retrospective at Palais Populaire
first published on newartexaminer.net This text has been written before the artist's passing in May. (Berlin.) Since early May, Berlin...
Nigeria to Berlin: With Otobong Nkanga at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) Entering Otobong Nkanga's show at Gropius Bau, we step right into a Zen-like stone garden, feeling anxious if this is indeed...
MG’s Back: Lee Mingwei at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) Having been closed for nearly two months “on account of the current situation”, Martin Gropius Bau reopened in May, extending...
Not BGW, But Just Another Gallery Weekend in Berlin
(Berlin.) This first weekend in May was supposed to host Berlin Gallery Weekend 2020 which, of course fell victim to the “virus crisis”....
Italy is under quarantine? Come to Berlin, See Raphael at Gemäldegalerie, AND Kupferstichkabinett!
(Berlin.) Throwback to November 2019, the weather in Berlin was the same as now, Wuhan only a city in China, and you could sip a Corona...
“Monet, Monet, Monet, must be funny...” Places At Barberini Museum, Potsdam
(Potsdam.) The Barberini invited, and everybody came. We’ve hardly seen an art related press conference in Berlin that crowded before, so...
Roses, Couples, and Great Art: Two Exhibitions at Palais Populaire, and Next Door
(Berlin.) Welcome back after this rather extensive winter break, suddenly it’s 2020, and so many things have changed! Already we think of...
Abide the Lawrence Abu Hamdan, at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) Apart from Cevdet Eret’s musical trip to Bergama, and not officially part of the series Works of Music by Visual Artists,...
Pergamon and Turkey, Bergama to Berlin: Cevdet Eret at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) It’s almost the end of November again, meaning any Americans among you will probably feel in the mood for some... well, here’s...
Bauhaus 100. Original Edutainment at Berlinische Galerie
(Berlin.) Twenty-nineteen being history soon, it’s about time to visit a Bauhaus centennial show should you not have done so yet. Quite a...
When Peking Strikes: Duck and Cover. The Sweet and Sour Sides of Art and Entertainment
(Berlin.) Please, have a seat, make yourself comfortable, grab a cuppa green tea and a snack, Poodle, Siamese, or Black Bear maybe;...
BAW(S) 2019, Part II: The Grand Tour
(Berlin.) The preliminaries to Berlin Art Week 2019 (BAW*S as we’ve learned to say recently) continued with a new edition of Art for...
The Biggest BAWS You’ve Ever Seen! Berlin Art Week(s) 2019, Part 1: Prelude
(Berlin.) Berlin Art Week is the other annual event that keeps the Berlin art scene alive and born in 2012, it is still growing,...
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