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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 [...]
- British Art Now
My review of the exhibition British Art Now, now online at Artforum.
- Nan Goldin in Berlin
“As a photographer, Nan Goldin has inspired a legion of imitators who tend to confuse certain lifestyle traits with artistic substance, a privileging of content over form with an excuse for taking sloppy photographs.”
My review of Nan Goldin’s current Berlin exhibition 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.
- Ricarda Roggan
My review of Ricarda Roggan’s current Berlin show is now online at Artforum.
- Federico Forlani
Federico Forlani is one of a new breed of young Italian artists working in photography who, through an inventive configuration of the diaristic and the theatrical, explores the limitations of the self. With great sensitivity towards his subjects, which often include the artist himself, Forlani evokes a poetic universe that runs counter to the immersive [...]
- TONIGHT: Luigi y Luca opening at Artbar, Berlin
Photography always tells us more about its subjects than they might wish to reveal. In this sense, it is different from the other arts, in that it serves as a collaboration between the artist and the medium. Luigi y Luca understand this better than any other artist duo to have confined themselves to photographic art; [...]
- Tomorrow: SLUM @ Ficken3000, Berlin
The creators of PORK are pleased to announce the creation of an exciting new nightlife concept for Berlin. Beginning on August 6th, every Thursday night, Ficken3000 will be transformed into SLUM.
SLUM aims to unite all of Berlin’s disparate artistic, sexual, and nocturnal subcultures under a single roof. In the tradition of Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire, New [...]
- 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, [...]
- Gilbert & George @ Artforum.com
My review of Gilbert & George’s current Berlin exhibition is now online.
