Post by Lee Arnold I spent this summer in Europe and this time around I decided not to visit the major museums but instead explore some of the smaller local spots. Here is a list of six places you may not have heard of that are definitely worth a visit: 1. Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen This [...]

On the occasion of John Cage’s 100th birthday in 2012, the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin honors the innovative composer with an interdisciplinary art project. A Year from Monday. 365 Days Cage presents artistic comments on Cage that start on Cage’s 99th birthday (5.9.2011) and end on his 100th birthday in 2012. [...]

Berlin-based artist Nik Nowak likes to rock his audience with strange-looking mobile sound systems that emit bass-driven electronic music. His creations bear names like Baron Bass, Sackkarre (sack barrow), Mobile Booster. They are a mixture between extravagant vehicles and big speakers. His latest bass monster looks like tank and is called that way. Nik Nowak [...]

Tomás Saraceno’s work received broader attention in 2009 when he filled the main hall of the Padiglione Centrale in the Giardini at the 53rd Venice Art Biennial. His spider web-like installation created an immersive experience that was fascinating the visitors. With his solo exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin’s museum for contemporary art, he takes [...]

This year’s ABC – Art Berlin Contemporary runs under the motto: About Painting. But it’s not strictly painting. Visitors to the fair will also find sculpture, drawing, video etc. Some of them are more “painterly” than others. Art Berlin Contemporary, the “independent, hybrid exhibition format, between curated show and gallery event”, was founded four years ago [...]

Galerie Lena Brüning in Berlin / Germany presents for the first time in Europe works by the Japanese artist Hiroki Tsukuda. In his new series of black and white drawings titled New Tokyo, he deals with the nuclear crisis in Fukushima. Tokyo has changed after 11 March 2011. Conventional, absolute things have disappeared. In everyday [...]

Santiago Calatrava and Frank Stella Work from The Michael Kohlhaas Curtain @ The Neue Nationalgalerie with text by Nicholas O’Brien. “Upon approaching the renown last building by Mies van der Rohe, a distinct glass pavilion supported by the German architect’s signature grid of steel beams, one immediately is captivated by the massive caged painting that [...]

The Polish artist Robert Kusmirowski is known for his elaborate installations and performances. For the Barbican Center in London he created a replica of a World War Two-era bunker (Bunker, 2010). In Zürich he tranformed the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in an old Soviet Union training camp (2006). For the inaugural event of Galerie Magazin [...]

Nicolas Ceccaldi Work from his oeuvre. “NICOLAS CECCALDI recently produced a series of high-end custom-made surveillance camera prototypes made of melted children’s toys. These biomechatronic dispositives have fantasies of total war inscribed on the surface of their plastic shells and keep a wakeful eye on reality. By plugging them onto video display devices (e.g. a [...]

Based in Berlin is an exhibition that shows the work of some 80 emerging artists who live and work in Berlin. The show is intended to provide visitors with an overview of the contemporary art scene in Berlin. Participating artists are Aids-3D, Nina Canell, Keren Cytter, Cyprien Gaillard, Galerie im Regierungsviertel / The Forgotten Bar [...]

Our plane from JFK  touched down on Norwegian soil around 9:15 AM, Oslo time. My last aerial glances revealed Norwegian fields spread over long ripples of irregular landscape like crinkled foil, the plots creating a puzzle (not of squares like in America’s Midwest) but of triangles and polygons, which suggested people in a more relaxed [...]

Laurie Kang Work from her oeuvre. “My practice is based in film photography, collage, sculpture and installation. I employ the photographic image’s ability to capture an image and present it as an apparently true document in time and history. Using both created and found images and objects, I merge fact with fiction, distorting and challenging [...]

The Nationalgalerie at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin / Germany just opened an exhibition with six floorworks and a recently made mud wall work of the English sculptor, photographer and painter Richard Long. The exhibition titled “Richard Long: Berlin Circle” is the first solo show in Germany of works by Richard Long [...]

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s teahouse (Teehaus, 2009) is currently on show at the Asian Art Museum in Berlin. It consists of 378 cubes and 54 prisms of pressed Pu’er-Tea, surrounded by a field of scattered tea. Unfortunately it’s not possible to reproduce the scent of this work via video. So if you really want to [...]

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary Texte zur Kunst organized an international symposium at Theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1) in Berlin on December 11, 2010. Under the programmatic title, “Where do you stand, colleague?”, lectures and panels addressed the fundamental question of the relationship between art criticism and social critique.

opening March 19, 2011www.eigen-art.comOlaf Nicolai: Mirador

Established Exhibition space in Berlin for rent in keylocation of Mitte’s commercial art district, Linienstraße.  Daily, weekly and monthly rentalsavailable now until late Fall 2011.200 Sq meters up to 1000 sq meters for rent, variousdimensions, hi…

The jury of the 2011 Joan Miró Prize has granted the award to the Palestinian-British artist residing in London and Berlin, Mona Hatoum, for her great skill in connecting personal experience with universal values. Hatoum’s sculptures, installations, performances and videos set her among the most outstanding artists on the international art scene.

opening February 4, 2011www.zak-branicka.comPress Release

opening February 11, 2011www.galeriebuchholz.dePress Release