Williams, Sam

Last chance: Cyprien Gaillard – The Recovery of Discovery

Tue, 03 May 2011 07:00:00 GMT

French artist Cyprien Gaillard examines monuments and their relocation. The aim of the game is to recover the thrill of discovery. Defiance is the answer. The object is the Pergamon altar, which was brought to Berlin piece by piece in the 1880s.

Last chance: I am not free because I can be exploded anytime

Tue, 03 May 2011 07:00:00 GMT

LA artist Sterling Ruby reimagines the US as an acronym of its own flag: RWB. A country that has wrapped itself in its own iconography becomes something else. Ruby’s principle appears to be that paranoid delusions are the gateway to a kind of truth.

"We are the army of invaders"

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Interview: Esther Schipper. What's behind the decision to relocate from Mitte to Schöneberg Ufer? Is it the end of an era or a new beginning? For Schipper, it's all history.

What a serious horror writing a play “hello man from kebab house” (Josef Kramhöller)

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Jochen Kienzle's show is centred on photographer Josef Kramhöller, cast as a Kafkaesque avatar of himself.

Opening: What a serious horror writing a play...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:00:00 GMT

Jochen Kienzle's show is centred on photographer Josef Kramhöller, cast as a Kafkaesque avatar of himself, while the city is a dirty smear behind a crystalline thumbprint. Suspect it has something to do with performance being the mode of exposition.

Opening: The Michael Kohlhaas Curtain

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:00:00 GMT

The art world is deeply superstitious. Especially about numerology. Especially when state institutions are at the helm. And so the Neue Nationalgalerie contrives to honour Heinrich von Kleist's death (not his work!). Through August 14.

Berlin's top chicks: Art babes

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:00:00 GMT

When it comes to the art world women seem to deploy more influence than power, as taste-shapers at home and key players on the international field. Part of our BERLIN'S TOP CHICKS package from THE BERLINER FRAU issue.

Tacheles in dates

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:00:00 GMT

From Europe's largest shopping arcade to Nazi meeting rooms, Kunsthaus Tacheles has a very colourful history.

Meet the artists

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:00:00 GMT

Come inside the graffiti covered walls of Berlin's most famous Kunsthaus (or tourist trap) with four of Tacheles' long-term residents.

Last chance: Agatha Snow

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:00:00 GMT

All Access World is designed as a fictional corporation to promote "a more democratic approach to monument ownership and distribution.” For monument, read ‘culture’. Snow's sprawling multimedia sculptures invite participation.

Last chance: Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Though there are always some turkeys, the annual Berlin- Paris exchange airs the art rooms of the city. The pick this year is the Arp/Schwitters show at Isabella Bortolozzi. Both were formative artists of the Dada movement.

Labor Berlin 4: Reynold Reynolds – The Secrets Trilogy

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Hear Alaskan artist Reynolds's discuss his trilogy: “Secret Machine” focuses on Edweard Muybridge's photo-experiments, “Secret Life” is set in a plant-filled apartment and “Six Easy Pieces” dissects a physics textbook. Through April 3.

Angels disguised as lust

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

The Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition at C/O Berlin displays images of drooping penises, erect flowers, children and leatherboys but in classical form as only Mapplethorpe knew how.

The revolution will not be Facebooked

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT

Interview: Stephen Kovats. The transmediale artistic director is packing up his laptop following this year's fest after five years at the helm. Digital suicide and WikiLeaks are on the radar for his last year.