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- Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Read my review of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres show in Brussels at Artforum.
- Kandis Williams @ SLUM, December 16th at 22:00
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 stills.
http://www.kandiswilliams.com/
The night will also include a DJ set by Gonoretard.
SLUM is held every Wednesday at 22:00, [...]
- British Art Now
My review of the exhibition British Art Now, now online at Artforum.
- Wieland Speck & Shelly Silver @ Exile, Berlin
My review of the Wieland Speck and Shelly Silver double solo exhibition at Exile is now online at Artforum.
- Eklatant
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
“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 review of Mat Collishaw’s current Berlin solo exhibition is now online at Artforum.
- Alexandra Ranner @ Loock Galerie, Berlin
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 be discovered by the outside world. This outside world is referenced via hints of light, [...]
- 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 [...]
- Thiago Rocha Pitta at Andersen’s Contemporary, Berlin
Notes on an Island Shipwreck is a simple project exploring the polar motifs of land and sea. Thiago Rocha Pitta is restrained in his approach, and the exhibition is well thought-out, though not extraordinary. The centerpiece, Project for a Stormy Weather Painting, is a large piece of canvas upon which water, soil, and pigment [...]
- For Jan Jakub Kotik, at 3am
I do an occasional poetry column with Matthew Wascovich at 3ammagazine.com. In the latest installment, now online, you can read my homage to Jan Jakub Kotik.
