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- Robert Mapplethorpe & Sterling Ruby @ Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
A very strange exhibition, and one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. The show is actually Ruby’s — or more precisely, Ruby selected photographs of Mapplethrope’s and then made sculptural works responding to them. But Ruby’s work seems to have nothing to do with Mapplethorpe’s at first glance; and the more you [...]
- 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.
- 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, [...]
- 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. [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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.
- 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art: 1st Impressions
Today was the first day of the press preview for the latest installment of the Berlin Biennial, curated by Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic. I generally make it a rule to see a show at least twice before I review it, but first impressions can also be good a gauge of things, so before I [...]
- Guma Guar
Guma Guar
Guma Guar is a Prague-based art collective. Through their live actions, interferences, exhibitions, breakcore activism, and resplendent energy, they continue to expand and revise the possibilities of art in the 21st century.
This conversation recently took place via e-mail, as Guma Guar was making preparations for their upcoming exhibition at Prague’s Old [...]
