Florian Hecker, Chimerization, 2013, Event, Stream, Object, 2010 and Installation view at Chisenhale Gallery, 2010 The subjective dimensions of sound underpin Hecker’s investigations. His installations shift and vary depending on the listener, both in terms of each individual’s physical location and his or her personal biases and points of reference. Hecker takes as a starting… Continue reading Florian Hecker, Dimensions of Sound
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Carola Dertnig, Performance Art and Documentation
Carola Dertnig, Sans titres, 2009 – 2015 Carola Dertnig is an Artist who is interested in upturning and overwriting aspects of performance art history through strategies of feminist historical revisionism, including imaginative reconceptualization and performative interventions with existing documentation. Carola Dertnig’s drawings, video works and installations are concerned with the performative content of language—text, images,… Continue reading Carola Dertnig, Performance Art and Documentation
Artist: Yngve Holen
Yngve Holen, Extended Operations, 2013, Sensitive to Detergent, Tired, 2011 and Hater Headlight, 2015 Emerging from the 3D-printed rubble of Berlin’s “post-Internet” art scene, the Norwegian artist Yngve Holen is a cold empiricist and a slapstick comedian. With sculptural test-subjects ranging from minor appliances (tea kettles and washing machines) to high-industrial behemoths (commercial airliners and… Continue reading Artist: Yngve Holen
Artist: Jordan Wolfson
Jordan Wolfs, Female Figure, 2014 and Colored Sculpture, 2016, Installation View In a recent interview Jordan Wolfson artist traced a cycle of works produced since 2009 back to a moment of eye-contact: “It is something that became clear to me in Your Napoleon (2009) […]. For that work, I kept trying to figure out how… Continue reading Artist: Jordan Wolfson
Raf Simons Menswear Spring 2017, Florence
Raf Simons Menswear Spring 2017, Florence Earlier this year, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation contacted Raf Simons. They asked if he’d like to work with them on something. He said yes. That’s the shorthand version of the story behind the collection he presented at Pitti Immagine Uomo, perfectly chimed with a duo of Mapplethorpe exhibitions at… Continue reading Raf Simons Menswear Spring 2017, Florence
Sarah Abu Abdallah: You Will Never Have Full Custody of Your Life
Sarah Abu Abdallah, The Salad Zone, 2013, Saudi Automobil, 2012 and Video Still from The Salad Zone, 2013 Sarah Abu Abdallah works primarily with video and film as a medium. She grew up in Qatif, Saudi Arabia has an MFA in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent participations include include Prospectif Cinema Filter Bubble… Continue reading Sarah Abu Abdallah: You Will Never Have Full Custody of Your Life
Painting: Max Schmidtlein
Max Schmidtlein, Hallo, 2014 and Head and Shoulders, 2015 Max Schmidtlein’s solo exhibition Detox Plus is a highly contemporary painting exhibition. ‘Not another “contemporary” painting show’, you might say. Yet more painting that wants to do everything differently. Painting that acts oh so aware of media issues and its own implication in the mechanisms of both on-… Continue reading Painting: Max Schmidtlein
Charles Harlan, Sculpture
Charles Harlan, Stack, 2015, Roll Gates, 2012 and Counter, 2013 Drawing inspiration from Land Art of the 1970s, Harlan avails himself of the most common materials at hand – including such hardware store staples as ladders, shipping palettes, and one-ton metal pipe – in his large industrial works. Huge in scale, Minimalist in form,… Continue reading Charles Harlan, Sculpture
Arab Contemporary Art: Artist Collective GCC
GCC, Exhibition View, Royal Mirage, 2014, Chartered Cruise, Rolls Royce Silver Phantom, sound, ephemeral/performance, 2013, and Royal Mirage III, 2014 The artist collective GCC has been making arab contemporary art that is both inspired by and addresses the contemporary culture of the Arab Gulf region. Consisting of a “delegation” of nine artists, the GCC makes reference to the English… Continue reading Arab Contemporary Art: Artist Collective GCC
Dance: Xavier Le Roy, Nudity Has Been Around From Prehistoric Times
Xavier Le Roy and Eszter Salamon, Gisxelle, 2001 For Le Roy, nakedness is not a shock tactic but a quest for the sculptural and the sublime. “Nudity has been around from prehistoric times,” says John Kaldor. From 35,000-year-old figurines of Venus to the pursuit of male bodily perfection in Greek and Roman marble statues, Temporary… Continue reading Dance: Xavier Le Roy, Nudity Has Been Around From Prehistoric Times
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans, Young Man, Jeddah, A, 2012, Nite Queen, 2013 and Young Man, Jeddah, B, 2012 The German artist Wolfgang Tillmans is the recipient of the 2015 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. On December 1, 2015 an exhibition of Tillmans’ work opened at the Hasselblad Center, Sweden. On the same day, the Hasselblad Foundation hosted… Continue reading Wolfgang Tillmans
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Penny’s Change, 2015
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Penny’s Change, 2015, What makes a painter paint? In her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, artist Jamian Juliano-Villani uses a digital projector to create surreal paintings and discusses the graphic source material that inspires her. Juliano-Villani’s Brooklyn studio is crowded with a wildly varied collection of books ranging from 70s-era fashion, to commercial illustration, to Scientific… Continue reading Jamian Juliano-Villani, Penny’s Change, 2015
Artist: Isabelle Cornaro, Art Historian Specialised
Isabelle Cornaro, Paysage avec poussin et témoins oculaires (version II), 2009 and The Whole World is Watching, 2012 The work of Isabelle Cornaro evinces an interest in the way our perspectives are historically and culturally determined. Due to her training as an art historian specialised in 16th- and 17th-century Western art, her visual language is… Continue reading Artist: Isabelle Cornaro, Art Historian Specialised
Kate Cooper, Hypercapitalism and the Digital Body
Kate Cooper, Rigged 2015. Digital prints, looped HD video with sound, 6:22 min Kate Cooper’s exhibition at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin looks at the agency of the computer generated female within the glossy aesthetics of consumer capitalism. The work of British artist Kate Cooper inspires immediate physical and aesthetic attraction. A… Continue reading Kate Cooper, Hypercapitalism and the Digital Body
Performance Artist: Tris Vonna-Michell
The Trades of Others, 2008, and Finding Chopin: Dans l’Essex, 2014 Through live performance and audio recordings of spoken texts, Vonna-Michell relays circuitous and multilayered narratives that combine personal anecdotes and historical research. Vonna-Michell’s narrative structures are characterized by repeated detours, dead ends, and streams of association. Dense conglomeration of photographic material, from film and slide… Continue reading Performance Artist: Tris Vonna-Michell
Norwegian Painting: Christian Tony Norum
Christian Tony Norum, Installation view, Untitled, 2015 and Colours of All Time, 2015 A beautiful bird, a drum, the stars and the ancestors, a river, the sea, the wind and the sun. I am blinded by being a human being, searching wondering about everything and nothing. I am a universal human being that live and… Continue reading Norwegian Painting: Christian Tony Norum
Artist, Sascha Weidner, Photographer, 1979 – 2015
Sascha Weidner, Am Wasser Gebaut, 2009, Lay Down Close By, 2012 and La lutte de J. Avec l´ange, 2006. Sascha Weidner was a German Photographer and Artist, who lived and worked in Belm and Berlin. The work of Sascha Weidner deals with the creation of a radical subjective pictorial world. His photographs are characterized… Continue reading Artist, Sascha Weidner, Photographer, 1979 – 2015
Erika Vogt, Slug, Simone Subal
Erika Vogt, Stranger Debris Roll Roll Roll, 2013 and installation view of Slug, 2015 Erika Vogt might alternately be described as a sculptor, printmaker or video artist, but, like so many of her peers, these labels merely point at the edges of something deeper. Born out of the tradition of experimental film, Erika brings to… Continue reading Erika Vogt, Slug, Simone Subal
Fitness for Artists, “We can finally meet in a virtual space and get fit for life together.”
Helga Wretman, Fitness for Artists, 2015 Helga Wretman aims to fill the body and soul of participating artists with endorphins to improve their creativity and self consciousness, whilst providing a platform for international artists to connect with peers in other parts of the world. “We can finally meet in a virtual space and… Continue reading Fitness for Artists, “We can finally meet in a virtual space and get fit for life together.”
Artist: Oliver Laric
Oliver Laric, Touch My Body, Green Screen Version, 2008 and The Marble Player, From the series Lincoln 3D Scans, 2013 Oliver Laric uses memes, movable type, copies and collective agency to make art that is only partly ‘his.’ Oliver Laric once showed a 16th-century print by Flemish court artist Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. The etching… Continue reading Artist: Oliver Laric