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- Mark Ther @ SLUM, January 20th
There will be a screening of Mark Ther’s video work on January 20th at SLUM, the anti-art salon I co-curate with Tennessee Claflin every Wednesday night at Ficken3000, Urbanstr. 70, Berlin. Doors open at 22:00; the screening will start at 1:00. The evening includes a before & after set by DJ Goddamnit.
- 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.
- Christophe Chemin screening tomorrow night in Berlin
TOMORROW @ SLUM
At the next SLUM, we are pleased to announce that we will be screening rare early films of Christophe Chemin. This is meant to coincide with the current exhibition of Christophe, “Rats & Children,” at the RISE Gallery here in Berlin — if you haven’t been yet, we strongly recommend checking this show [...]
- GG Allin Hails a Cab
A Youtube short story on 3ammagazine.com.
- Ceal Floyer at Kunst-Werke
My review of Ceal Floyer’s solo exhibition at Kunst-Werke is now online at Artforum.
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- Queer Art in Central Europe: Travis Jeppesen on Mark Ther
This is a transcription of my recent lecture on Mark Ther at the Sixth Culture for Tolerance Festival in Krakow, Poland. The lecture was adapted from my essay on Mark Ther in Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the “Contemporary” (Social Disease, 2008). Unfortunately, most of the videos I showed are not currently available online. [...]
