Nach Osten

Berlin is currently packed with shows – Gallery weekend, if in Berlin you have to get on the move and check out some of the shows. Polish artist Alicja Kwade lives and works in Berlin. Her work...

Neck-shots

The first two parts in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradies triology, Liebe & Glaube are filled with amazing stills and frames. In particular frames and stills where the viewer is set behind the characters....

Giffing

Gifs are funny – especially when put in the right context. Magritte Mondrian – ping pong If you live in Berlin, Zurich or Vienna you might relate to some of the stuff these tumblr’s refer to…...

Cucumis sativus

It’s a girl – exploring the qualities of the vegetable cucumber Cucumis sativus. The Berlinbased dane Rune Bosse is during Easter showing at Gallery FLOSKL in Copenhagen. Bosse spend a month in a...

Smoke obsession…

The great exhibitionspace of Hamburger Bahnhof was during fall of 2012 showing the amazing lightsculptures of the videoartist Anthony McCall. The room was dark apart from the lightinstallations and...

Lianne La Havas

A couple of quick words on our newest musical love affair, Lianne La Havas. She’s got a truly amazing voice, a funky, crispy slap on the guitar and a sparkling personality to match. It’s no wonder...

Sådan set er der tale om en stol

Length of lights

Being totally submerged in the airy, lightness of autumn lights combined with perceiving the rugged, biting cold slowly taking over the city re-sensitizes the surfaces, people their skin and bodies...

Undersøgelse af kød. Del 1.

Efter et stykke tid på sidelinjen i vildmarkens fantastiske bubble, er jeg nu tilbage og klar til at poste nogle af mine egne projekter. Det er lidt sådan for mig, at projekter helst skal ligge og...

Breaking boundaries of your spatial experience

Expanding notion of space and boundaries The German artist Felix Kiessling wishes through his artworks to expand your notion of spatiality and their boundaries. As you entered the exhibition space...

Bates in Stockholm

My man Bates is showing of a brand new series of Paintings in Stockholm from August 24th to September 13th this year. Bates is – as you know – always totally delivering on quality, so if you have...

Bates & Bjorndahl. Appreciation For Letters. Exhibition in Paris.

“Appreciation for letters” coming up next in Paris By: Bates & Bjorndahl. Here’s the story behind the upcoming exhibition: Bates and Niels Bjorndahl first met in 1984 when the graffiti scene was...

Japanese lights

The japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi manages to capture the airy, beautifull quality in the everyday life. Her visual aesthetics is ethereal and almost has a sacred, meditative quality to it....

To sit down

Danish installationartist Jeppe Hein who works from his Studio in Berlin has examined the notion of a bench and variations. The Bench study resulted in some nice and quirky examples of what a bench...

Light spectrum

Olafur Eliasson’s installation Your atmospheric colour atlas from 2009 allows the participant to experience the tactile and visual intensity of the colours blue, green and red. The installation...

Monochromatic colours

Yves Klein was raised on art and an important figure in the nouveau realisme movement on the european art scene in the years after the second world war. He primarily used a fantastic deep...

Frank Miller. The Godfather of black and white.

Frank Miller, one of my big heroes - as far as comic books are concerned (I don’t really wanna comment on his political views here). I can’t think of anyone else who has mastered the art of graphic...

Fire walk with me

The colours and lights that the sun presents in the winter time is paralyzingly beautiful, this particular norwegian sunrise set the mountains on fire! Wilhelm Hammershøi’s Winter Landscape (1895)...

Global warming results in flooded McDonalds?

The danish artists group Superflex flooded in 2009 a life-size replica of a McDonalds restaurant and filmed it as a art statement and a statement to the debate on global warming. The McDonalds...

Foggy finish guy

Axel Antas is a younger finish artist who has made some amazing photographs from a sort of autobiographical point of view. (Pretty awesome name btw) In Finland people often have last names that is...

‘Off the Wall’ at Lauritz.com, Carlsberg, Copenhagen

As as follow-up to our exhibition ‘Streets of Copenhagen – street art meets graffiti’, we’ve joined up with the auction house Lauritz.com and put together a new show / auction, which kicks off...

Slicing skills

The dutch paper architect Ingrid Siliakus has got some serious slicing and cutting skills as goes for the book surgeon Brian Dettmer. The delicate and fragile paperartworks is fascinating and holds...

En verden er kommet til verden inde i verden – uddrag af Inger Christensens “Det”

En verden er kommet til verden inde i verden. En sammentrængt verden, et forstenet perspektiv, en ufremkommelig fastlagt mening, så velunderbygget, med betonfundamenter, stålkonstruktioner, med...

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Belgiske Berlinde De Bruyckeres bizarre verden når det er bedst.

Un chien Andalou

The silent short film from 1929 Un Chien Andalou is a surrealist artpiece made by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. It was Buñuel’s first film and was initially released in...

Ai Xuan. Chinese Poetry On Canvas.

There’s not exactly a lot of info to be found on Ai Xuan. He was born in 1947. He now lives and works in Beijing where he teaches at the Beijing Painting Institute. But then again, it really isn’t...

Fan mail: Ai Wei Wei

Der måtte komme en post om den nok mest omtalte kunstner i verden lige nu. Den kinesiske kunstner Ai Wei Wei forundrer og provokerer med sine spektakulære installationer. Han er med sine udtalte...

New take on the term penthouse

Korean installationartist Do Ho Suh investigates through the artwork Fallen star the notion of displacement and home. It’s basically a house, that is placed upon a another house. The little...

Tristan des Limbes: Drawings from a dark place

After having brought a very elaborate documentation of the street art side of artist Tristan des Limbes some time ago, it seems about time to also bring her “off the street” paper drawings into...

Casablanca Re-Works feat. Peaches

Once upon a time, a record company called Casablanca Records pioneered something called “Munich Disco” much akin to Italo Disco. With artists such as Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder, they...