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- Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
My review of Janet Cardiff and George Bures MIller at Hamburger Bahnhof has been published in WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art.
I will be in Krakow later this week as part of the 6th Culture for Tolerance Festival. I will be lecturing on the work of Mark Ther at 15:00 on Saturday, April 18th, at Spokój, [...]
- Candice Breitz
My review of the Candice Breitz solo exhibition in Berlin is now online.
- Ryan Trecartin at Whitechapel Gallery
Having sat through so much bad video art in the past, I had until fairly recently come close to giving up on the medium altogether. Lately, however, my prejudices have been dissolving, as a new generation of video artists — people like Mark Ther, Keren Cytter, and Ryan Trecartin — has been opening up possibilities [...]
- 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 [...]
- Ayse Erkmen at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
If minimal art has any importance, it’s in making us notice things that we wouldn’t otherwise. Ayse Erkmen has this figured out. She gives us an art that is barely there. What is it that Gertrude Stein once wrote - there is no there there. Or was it someone else? It doesn’t matter who [...]
- Dagger
Words: Heidi James
Visual: Matthew Coleman
- HANES
HANES, the film that Mark Ther made about my move from Prague to Berlin, can now be viewed in full online.
Mark Ther
- 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 [...]
- Four Films by Mark Ther
1. I Will Get You Out and Chop You Up in Midair (2007)
Plants. Flowers. I don’t know the names of any of them. A chair in a garden, an assortment of tools. The chirping birds are so bored, can’t you hear them. Why do we generate nature in our own backyards. A dead man in [...]
- Mark Ther’s Television Commercials
Mark Ther is a Prague-based video artist.
These are some of this television commercials.
His work is the subject of an essay in my forthcoming book, Disorientations.
Tomorrow, I’ll be writing about four of his recent films.
