Q&As – Berlin Art Link

Narrative Theatricality: An Interview with Mario García Torres

Alison Hugill — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:17:35 +0000

There’s a theatrical flair to Mario García Torres’ fifth solo exhibition at neugerriemschneider. In ‘nada me han enseñado los años (All the years have taught me nothing),’ on view through August 23rd, a new series of black-and-white oil paintings have been arranged like a storyboard and offset by a rusty orange-hued carpet, freshly installed in the gallery’s Linienstraße location for the show and…

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Wet Rituals: An Interview with Sophie Seita and Naomi Woo

Alison Hugill — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:57:08 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Water. Collaborators since 2018, the artists Sophie Seita and Naomi Woo have worked together to bring numerous projects to life. Water is at the center of their recent work, ‘Tributaries: a Wet Ritual for Witnessing,’ in which groups gather near bodies of water to consider the ways in which water is used, preserved and abused in contemporary life and…

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Breathing Matters: An Interview with Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel

Alison Hugill — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:50:59 +0000

Few filmmakers working today so thoroughly unmoor the senses as Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel. Since emerging from Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab—a crucible for reimagining the interface between anthropology and aesthetics—they have developed a body of work that resists the conventions of documentary form. Allowing themselves to be led by the camera, by the texture of environments…

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Ministry of Sewers: An Interview with Cooking Sections

Alison Hugill — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:43:30 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Water. No swimming. Years—decades, centuries—of industrial runoff, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, detergents, oil and sewage have turned Kent’s coastal areas into a place fit only for…taking photos. The London-based collective Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe)—who often work at the intersection of art, architecture…

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Material Witnessing: An Interview with Susan Schuppli

Alison Hugill — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:54:35 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Legality. The judicial system is both intimidating and beguiling—a complex web of ritualized procedures enacted in hallowed, semi-public chambers, administered by (mostly) men dressed in long black or red robes. In our video call, artist and academic Susan Schuppli likens it to a “dramaturgy,” a “choreopolitics” whose workings are highly coded and whose…

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Restorative Laughter: An Interview with Zasha Colah

Alison Hugill — Fri, 23 May 2025 07:07:10 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Legality. The 13th Berlin Biennale, which brings together over 60 artists and presents more than 170 works, will open on June 13th at four venues across the city—KW, Hamburger Bahnhof, Sophiensaele and a former courthouse in Moabit. Biennale curator, Zasha Colah—assisted by Valentina Viviani—has just announced the title of this year’s show: ‘passing the…

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The Carceral Sublime: An Interview with Sable Elyse Smith

Alison Hugill — Fri, 16 May 2025 09:55:35 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Legality. Sable Elyse Smith’s works explore the strange dimensionalities created by the American legal system. The nature of contemporary carceral culture is totalizing, from a media sphere dominated by everything from sensationalized manhunts to prison furniture designed to enforce and reify a vulgar order of violence. Smith’s works explore the uneven…

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Quiet Acts of Resistance: An Interview with Igor Grubić

Alison Hugill — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:17:57 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Public. My gateway into activist and artist Igor Grubić’s practice was equal parts jarring and cathartic. Croatian and Serbian voices shouting, gunfire and Missy Elliot’s 2001 hit ‘Get Ur Freak On’ blared across Berlin’s Nome gallery before I could see the source of the commotion. Grubić’s two-channel video ‘East Side Story’ (2006-08) portrays the…

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Needs Are Not Scary: An Interview with Casino for Social Medicine

Alison Hugill — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:01:01 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Public. The Casino for Social Medicine is an experimental, collective and anti-capitalist bar and café that recently opened its doors in a former Spielhalle at Sonnenallee 100, in Berlin-Neukölln. Since its launch in October, it has been run by a dozen volunteers, self-described as a “porous group of anti-colonial migrants, activists, radical librarians…

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Bearing Witness to Concealed Crimes: An Interview with Forensis

Alison Hugill — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:41:01 +0000

‘The Drum and The Bird’ is a multimedia performance bringing together musician and PAN label boss Bill Kouligas and Forensis, the nonprofit research association using open source technology to investigate unsolved crimes against humanity worldwide. Set to be performed at Rewire Festival in The Hague this weekend, the immersive, multi-sensory piece offers an urgent and timely meditation on…

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Biopolitical Ballet: An Interview with DANCÆ

Alison Hugill — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:27:56 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Public. DANCÆ, an evolving performance series, reimagines ballet through immersive, multidisciplinary collaborations. Their latest project, ‘Körperfabrik,’ premiered this month at Berlin’s Kant-Garagen, an industrial space that becomes integral to the work itself. Featuring choreography by Anthony Nakhle, Alvin Collantes and Ballet Sur_real…

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The Public Voice: An Interview with Samra Mayanja

Alison Hugill — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:49:07 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Public. Samra Mayanja is a performance artist, poet and curator responsible for the project space The Call Centre in Hackney Wick, London. Mayanja’s performances, often based on a character she has developed named Holiday, are searingly emotional, eye-wateringly hilarious and overwhelmingly generous. These theatrical works are also robustly participatory…

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