Annelies Štrba in Leipzig, Germany
This winter before leaving Germany, frieze d/e asked me to write a review of an exhibition by Annelies Štrba at Galerie EIGEN+ART in Leipzig. The exhibition took place at the Spinnerei, an immense 19th-century factory complex where raw cotton was once turned into fine thread. Today, the Spinnerei is home to a vibrant scene [...]
“Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault” in Basel
My review of Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault at Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland is now online at frieze.com.
h = 400 cm by Karin Sander at Esther Schipper in Berlin
In a recent exhibition at Esther Schipper, an interior wall with exposed metal studs and gray gypsum panels lies horizontal on the gallery floor. Another wall that once enclosed an office is also pulled down and now a horizontal plane. As a result, an administrator’s desk and large windows overlooking [...]
“If it looks like art it probably isn’t” at Archive Kabinett in Berlin
That is the statement in bright white neon script that visitors see at the entrance to Archive Kabinett on Dieffenbachstraße in Berlin. It is a work by Warren Neidich and a fitting introduction to Archive, which isn’t exactly what it looks like. Archive takes the form of a bookstore. But [...]
“Attraction and Repulsion in What it All Means” in Texte zur Kunst
The focus of Texte zur Kunst #88 is “The Question of Value.” This edition features essays by Isabelle Graw (“The Value of the Art Commodity”), André Orléan (“What is the Economic Value Worth”), Diedrich Diederichsen (“Time, Object, Commodity”) and, fittingly, an artist edition by Jeff Koons that examine the underlying [...]
Toleration Deluxe by Nihad Nino Pušija
Duldung Deluxe (Toleration Deluxe) is a photographic research and publication project by the Berlin-based, Bosnian artist Nihad Nino Pušija. It explores living conditions under which Roma youth from Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia exist in Germany today. Pušija’s subjects, like himself, came from the states of former Yugoslavia in the 1990s [...]
Antonioni’s Vittoria and Piero on Facebook
Spectators of Michelangelo Antonioni’s film L’eclisse (1962) interpret the complex character Vittoria by watching the extraordinary attention she gives to everyday objects, surfaces, sounds, and experiences. She pauses unexpectedly, for example, to observe leaves blowing in the wind and to caress the smooth surfaces of things. In the accumulation of [...]
Effects of Good Government
A series of frescoes painted by the celebrated Sienese artist Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290–1348) adorn the walls of a government hall in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. Since art of the early Renaissance is usually dedicated to religious subject matter, Lorenzetti’s murals, painted from 1337 to 1339, are unique because they [...]
The architect Giancarlo de Carlo and Siena
San Miniato is a suburban neighborhood located four miles north of the center of Siena. It has a residential complex with six housing blocks designed by the Italian architect Giancarlo de Carlo (1919–2005). De Carlo’s visionary approach to architecture sought to embrace public opinion in the urban planning process, using [...]
Salon für Kunstbuch 21er Haus in Vienna
Salon für Kunstbuch 21er Haus in Vienna is an ongoing performance and sculptural intervention by Bernhard Cella that uses the form of a museum bookshop to expand the intersections of artistic production, publication and consumption. It has an integrated selection of books on art, theory, design, architecture, dance, theater, music [...]
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