Writings on Art from Central Europe and Beyond
- WHITE TRASH DUMMIES
On a recent trip to Paris, I was lucky enough to catch an exhibition of Duane Hanson, whose work I’ve long admired in reproduction but seldom seen in actuality. The sculptures most people and I know best stem from the latter half of his career, when he took to creating lifelike reproductions of mostly white [...]
- 8th Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial – Szczecin, Poland
Armando Lulaj, Time Out of Joint
Szczecin is among the most depressing cities I’ve visited in Poland. I won’t say it’s my least favorite - that distinction would have to go to Zakopane, that overcrowded resort haven in the Tatra Mountains near the Slovak border, teeming with Russian ski tourists, bad food, and tacky souvenir shops. [...]
- PREVIEW: The 53rd Venice Biennale
The major challenge faced by anyone asked to curate a biennial today – and this is especially true in the case of Venice, the biggest baby of them all – is that the task is simply an impossible one. No matter how all-encompassing one’s concept is, a slew of detractors will always be on hand [...]
- Terence Koh @ Peres Projects
Those of us who have watched Terence Koh’s meteoric rise with grotesque fascination have always wondered how the inevitable obverse process would measure up to the hype spectacle. His current exhibition indicates that the fall will be swift and dismal.
Koh is showing a single sculpture, Boy By the Sea, a work that featured in a [...]
- HAU Curator Stefanie Wenner interviews Travis Jeppesen about DADDY
SW: DADDY is the title of the play that you wrote for our Festival “Your Nanny Hates You!” Fathers seem to be more and more absent, the construction of the postmodern family seems to move beyond the older notions of the threefold of father, mother and child. What do you think: Which place does the [...]
- Ernesto Ortiz @ Golden Parachutes
The border, as both physical reality and philosophical entity, forms the backdrop of the paintings Ernesto Ortiz is working on for his first solo exhibition, opening on May 23rd at Golden Parachutes in Berlin. Indeed, it could be said that the U.S.-Mexican border is one of the rare places where the supposed abstractions of philosophy [...]
- I’ve Written a Letter to Daddy by Bruce LaBruce
As many of you know, my first play, Daddy, will be produced in June at the HAU Theater in Berlin. Bruce LaBruce recently wrote this nice essay on the play, which I thought I’d post here. Tickets to Daddy can be ordered directly from the HAU website.
Finally, the voice of a new generation has emerged. [...]
- Reading on Thursday, Berlin
‘Movin’ on with VERSES’
A new evening of poetry & spoken word
Thursday 28th MAY 2009 9pm start@ Sin Club, Schönleinstrasse 6, Kreuz-köln
Hosted by lady gaby with special guests:
1. Travis Jeppesen is an American poet/writer editor of the cultural magazine Blatt, author of Victims and Poems I wrote while watching TV. His [...]
- Jack Goldstein @ Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Berlin
The story of Jack Goldstein is one of the saddest in recent art history. Throughout much of his career, Goldstein struggled with fame - both his own and that of the artists who rose to prominence alongside him in the now-legendary Pictures exhibition of 1977 - as well as the crude dictates of market forces [...]
- Jacqueline Brown @ STYX Project Space, Berlin
In her first solo exhibition, Jacqueline Brown uses drawings, photography, sound, and video to compose a sort of exercise in landscape autobiography. Mining the flora and fauna of the English countryside around Devon, where the young artist spent her childhood, Brown puts her training as a sculptor to spectacular effect in Pine Family I-III, three [...]
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