Trisha Baga
Time travel is possible. All you need, at least according to Trisha Baga’s thirty-five-minute 3D video 1620, 2020, is an old onion and lemon, a few connecting wires, and a computer running on a...
View ArticleAlexander Basil
“I used to live in a room full of mirrors / all I could see was me,” sang Jimi Hendrix in 1968. Over the past year and a half of isolation and atomization, most of us have come to know how that feels....
View ArticleWin McCarthy
“My name is Joseph Winston McCarthy. Born July 2nd, 1986. American. I’m here in Berlin on a business trip.” So, in relative coherence, begins the handout for Win McCarthy’s exhibition “RULER.” The text...
View ArticleBecky Beasley
Becky Beasley’s art is nothing if not autobiographical. In a text accompanying her latest show, “H.S.P. (or Promising Mid-Career Woman),” the British artist alludes to her own depression and drinking....
View ArticleAlexandra Bircken
The Kesselhaus, or “boiler house,” of the Kindl – Centre for Contemporary Art is a high-ceilinged industrial space&#—the type of building that Berlin sometimes seems to be made up of&#—and...
View ArticleSibylle Bergemann
A series of black-and-white images shot in 1976 in Clärchens Ballhaus, a dependable spot for fun in then-Communist East Berlin, shows a night out in fragments, like a soused memory: the ballroom’s...
View ArticleAustin Martin White
A writer could easily spend their allotted word count detailing the complex, multipart technique undergirding Austin Martin White’s ten paintings&#—accompanied by watercolors and drawings&#—in...
View ArticleMichel Majerus
In November 2002, a plane carrying Luxembourgian artist Michel Majerus back from Berlin to his homeland crashed and he died, aged just thirty-five. By that time, he’d spent more than a decade evolving...
View ArticleSamuel Hindolo
For his solo show “Guest room,” Samuel Hindolo presented new paintings in the gallery’s first-floor space, along with drawings in a separate room. Before viewers got there, though, they might have...
View ArticlePatrizio Di Massimo
The six canvases in Patrizio Di Massimo’s exhibition “Out Like a Light” shared a single conceit, one that the title foretold. Each painting shows an individual or a couple asleep, usually amid a riot...
View ArticleMerlin James
For decades Merlin James’s paintings have been characterized, near paradoxically, by their mercurial variety. A show by the Welsh-born, Glasgow-based artist might contain any of the following: somber...
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