Archive for the “Installation art” category
TransLife in Beijing
by Travis Jeppesen on August 19, 2011
I guess there’s not much left to say, at this point. After all, criticism stops as soon as the only question left to be asked is whether art is fulfilling its social responsibilities.
John Miller in Cologne
by Travis Jeppesen on June 22, 2011
Miller’s work is always defined by a certain effortlessness at crossing the cerebral with the visual. In this, he is more motivated by his subject matter than any one particular mode of expression or conceptual framework. The result is that (…)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
by Travis Jeppesen on February 9, 2010
Read my review of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres show in Brussels at Artforum.
Kandis Williams @ SLUM, December 16th at 22:00
by Travis Jeppesen on December 11, 2009
SLUM is pleased to announce a one-night installation by American artist Kandis Williams. Williams will present a series of collages that replicate the interiors of the vagina, using black-and-white photocopies from many sources, including hardcore porn, African sculpture, and film (…)
British Art Now
by Travis Jeppesen on December 5, 2009
My review of the exhibition British Art Now, now online at Artforum.
Wieland Speck & Shelly Silver @ Exile, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on November 19, 2009
My review of the Wieland Speck and Shelly Silver double solo exhibition at Exile is now online at Artforum.
Eklatant
by Travis Jeppesen on November 17, 2009
Tomorrow night at SLUM, the event I co-curate with Tennessee Claflin at Ficken3000 (Urbanstr. 70, Berlin), we will present a one-night installation by Eklatant, one of my favorite Berlin artists. You can see some of his work here: www.eklatant.tv
Mat Collishaw
by Travis Jeppesen on October 16, 2009
“Now that postmodernism is beginning to appear an almost retro stance, it is artists like Collishaw, who interrogates histories through the disparate prisms of technologies recent and refurbished, that demonstrate how to make it new in even newer ways.” My (…)
Alexandra Ranner @ Loock Galerie, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on July 10, 2009
Alexandra Ranner is showing a series of photos of lonely, desolate rooms. Rooms that almost appear as though they were never intended for human inhabitance. Or, that they have been abandoned and sealed away, their forsaken state having yet to (…)
Jacqueline Brown @ STYX Project Space, Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on May 25, 2009
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, (…)