reviews 10.05.10 Judith Vrancken
Berlin
Johann König, Max Hetzler, Hamish Morrison
01/01/10 - 05/06/10
As the opening night of a proper Berlin Gallery Weekend requires, the art was somewhat secondary to the ubiquitous wine and networking by its fashionable and multilingual audience. In terms of art however, this year, the participating galleries seem to put a collective focus on exceptionally theatrical pieces and forms of presentation. Here are some highlights from our Berlin correspondent.
The Secret Painter Hilma af Klint at MMKA
reviews 22.04.10 Jenny Wilson
Arnhem
MMKA
07/03/10 - 30/05/10
Hilma af Klint's paintings, now on show in Arnhem, demonstrate abstraction even before Kandinsky's and Mondrian's works did. In retrospect, should we revisit our understanding of the early development of modern art?
Read more..Resentment Unresolved Canonising Koen van den Broek
reviews 01.02.10 Christophe Van Eecke
Gent, Antwerpen
SMAK, KMSKA
22/01/10 - 16/05/10
Has Koen van den Broek's retrospective come too soon? His recent works on paper suggest he might be on the verge of a breakthrough...
Comments (0) | Read more..Sturtevant Inside Out
01/02/10 Vanessa Desclaux
Elaine Sturtevant, artist provocateur, famous for her exact copies of well known artists, is having a large solo exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris where she is presenting her newest work: Elastic Tango and House of Horrors
Read more..MATERIAL WORLDS Michel François Develops Plans d’évasion
reviews 04.01.10 Christophe Van Eecke
Gent
S.M.A.K.
10/10/09 - 10/01/10
In a world run by economics and commerce the work of Michel François asks some hard and penetrating but mostly beautiful questions.
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Berlin
Former Stasi Headquarters
20/06/09 - 20/07/09
It is there another story hiding behind ‘history’? Might it be that ‘history’ consists of nothing more than an intricate accumulation of narratives, fragments, and footnotes?
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Frankfurt am Main
Portikus
28/11/09 - 17/01/10
Rachel Harrison is one of today’s most important sculptors. With a characteristic mixture of pop art and minimalism, she has brought sculpture back to the object, from which the art discourse and the popularity of installations had made it farther and farther removed. It is not that Harrison’s art is simple to define or its concept clear, but it is unmistakably ‘things’.
Read more..Relentless Snapshots: Walker Evans Reconsidered
01/12/09 Jeremiah Day
Amsterdam
SMBA
21/11/09 - 03/01/10
David and Googliath
reviews 25.11.09 Erik van Tuijn
Amsterdam
Society of the Query conference
13/11/09 - 14/11/09
At the Society of the Query conference PHD researchers, cultural historians/analysts, new media specialists and artists all shared in the goal of critically assessing Google’s position as an information monopolist and the effect this has on us – Google users.
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Almere
De Paviljoens
21/11/09 - 10/04/10
In the work of Germaine Kruip, space is a playing field. In association with her exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Almere, here is a conversation about the theatre that is in all of us – and in nature.
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