Changing tack...

Did Dimitri Hegemann just save Berlin’s art scene? Was its structure crumbling? Kraftwerk Mitte opens its doors with Realstadt, an architectural exhibition of German cities over the past 50 years.

Nov 5, 2010 by | in Art

Mushrooming realities

Soma by Carsten Höller creates an amusement park for the art world. But is this ride more Tilt-a-Whirl than Space Mountain?

Nov 5, 2010 by in Art

Argentina's history in art

Akademie der Künste's South American excursion feels like idealized commercialism, but the works are beautiful.

Nov 5, 2010 by in Art

Tina Berning & Michelangelo Di Battista: FACE/project

Reassembling the fashion industry production line, Berning and Di Battista give a look at the industry through art – but inside out.

Oct 13, 2010 by in Art

Interview: Dor Guez

ON NOW! Arab or Jewish? Israeli photographer/video artist Dor Guez’s ID card says “Jewish”, but his family history is not as straightforward. With his solo exhibition Al Lydd, he paints a counter-narrative of Palestinian culture.

Sep 23, 2010 by in Art (1 Comments)

TKH: white cube or white elephant?

After a short and chaotic life, Berlin’s Temporäre Kunsthalle died of natural causes on August 31. We assess the TKH’s ephemeral existence… and its legacy.

Sep 1, 2010 by in Art (1 Comments)

Mona Hatoum

IN PICTURES! A child of Palestinian refugees who fled to Lebanon in the wake of the 1948 war, Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis winner Mona Hatoum's most striking work riffs on scattered identity.

Aug 13, 2010 by in Art

Globians Doc Fest

PICK OF THE WEEK! Documentaries are hot, but most regurgitate well-known information and leave the unknown... unknown. Globians – “the festival of necessary films” – focuses instead on undiscovered topics.

Aug 10, 2010 by in Film

Magnum: Shifting Media, New Role of Photography

OUR PICK: A lot has changed since 1947, when the world’s foremost photo agency was founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson. C|O sums up 60 years of photojournalism's biggest names.

Jul 12, 2010 by

Review: Lovepuke

LAST CHANCE! Three couples, three sets of folding chairs, the bullet-point outline of three relationships: Lovepuke garbage-disposes the epic tales of three archetypal couples into a 90-minute play.

Jul 8, 2010 by (7 Comments)

World Press Photo 10

LAST CHANCE! The spine-tingling, prize-winning images in Willy-Brandt-Haus' exhibition do more than illustrate news stories: they turn photojournalism into fine art.

Jun 28, 2010 by

Art Barter 2010

Art's most radical experiment comes to Berlin: bid (with services!) on unnamed, uncaptioned, unauthored and unpriced works... that may or may not be by somebody famous.

Jun 23, 2010 by (1 Comments)