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

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

Apr 3, 2011 by in Art

Angels disguised as lust

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.

Jan 31, 2011 by in Art

The revolution will not be Facebooked

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.

Jan 31, 2011 by in Art (1 Comments)

Imagine there is a heaven...

A chat with... Björn Dahlem. Dahlem's exhibition, Die Theorie des Himmels III – Focus Imaginarius, explores the fertile gaps in the rational terms of reason. He explains his role as creator and where religion fits in for him.

Dec 23, 2010 by in Art

A chat with... Willem De Rooij

"I find it exciting to make two entities clash." Berlin-based, Dutch-born artist Willem De Rooij discusses his latest exhibition, a project that took four years to realize.

Dec 13, 2010 by in Art

The far side of near

A chat with... THOMAS STRUTH. The versatile, famed German photographer goes to the far sides of the planet to bring something to his newest exhibition in Berlin.

Nov 2, 2010 by in Art

“Resistance is always late. If it’s on time, you don’t need it”

Interview: Billy Childish on being Childish. The English artist, punk rocker and prolific novelist explains that "any decent artist either lives outside England or is a weirdo".

Nov 2, 2010 by in Art (2 Comments)

Preview Berlin: Thinking outside the booth

Now in year five, Preview Berlin will be holding its ‘cutting edge’ ground Tempelhof’s Hangar 2… with a new conceptual space and first-time exhibitors from postcommunist art scenes.

Oct 4, 2010 by in Art

Yoko Ono: "I have so much love because the whole world hated me"

INTERVIEW: Yoko Ono’s solo show opened last month at Haunch of Venison with a polysemous title, Das Gift (the poison), and a bullet hole in shattered glass.

Sep 28, 2010 by in Art (3 Comments)

Marianne Breslauer: Moments Unnoticed

IN PICTURES! In the 1920s, a generation of women took charge of the freedoms offered between two world wars. Breslauer's photographs mastered the emergent style, “Neues Sehen”.

Sep 14, 2010 by in Art

Bruce Nauman: Dream Passage

IN PICTURES! Berlin’s first major Nauman retrospective explores his “experience architecture”: corridors and rooms that create the impression of incarceration.

Aug 30, 2010 by in Art

Nudes

LAST CHANCE! Just as portraits were always about death, photography has never been about anything other than sex. Camera Work looks at the photographic nude, from Man Ray to Robert Mapplethorpe.

Aug 24, 2010 by in Art (5 Comments)

Stranger than fiction

“I‘ll come back to the Museum of American Art when I find out where it is,” wrote one visitor in MoAA's guest book. Geographically, it’s at No. 91 Frankfurter Allee, but getting in isn’t so straightforward...

Aug 10, 2010 by in Art

A chat with... multimedia artist Ján Mančuška

Sadly Ján Mančuška died in Prague at the age of 39 after struggling with illness for a long time. Sam Williams had a chat with him last summer regarding his 2010 Berlin exhibition.

Jul 26, 2010 by in Art

Innen Stadt Außen

OUR PICK: Olafur Eliasson's show comprises a city-wide web of installations: at Martin-Gropius-Bau, there are rooms of coloured "fog", a hall of mirrors and an electrical storm performed by a dancing hosepipe.

Jul 19, 2010 by (4 Comments)

Stuart Brisley: "I often take off my trousers to reduce the notion of male power"

DON'T MISS: Performance artist Brisley has always sought out the hidden or discarded – the homeless, food, excrement. He's winding down his first German show in 20 years.

Jul 1, 2010 by

Reverse Engineering

As a teenager, Berlin denizen Ariel Schlessinger practiced train-hopping in California and developed a taste for the improper use of objects.

Jun 3, 2010 by

A chat with... Vera Mercer

Born in Berlin in 1936, Vera Mercer was a trained dancer before she moved on to photography, Paris and the Nouveau Réalistes. Now, Mercer creates extraordinary still lifes of food - and she is returning to the city of her birth for a retrospective.

Apr 1, 2010 by

Interview: Emil Holmer

Mixing traditional media like charcoal and oils with spray paint, scraps of porn found on the street and South African tabloid headlines, Emil Holmer's Dead Letters paintings are a series of neon horror stories.

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