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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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Fantasy and Freedom: Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts

Adela Lovric — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:22:11 +0000

For the uninitiated, the name Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts might be misleading. What began as a bi-annual survey of global fine art printmaking, based on the principle of national representation, has long since outgrown its original frame. Over the decades, it has evolved into a curated exhibition of contemporary art, with each edition shaped by a new curator, artist or collective.

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Peeking: Navot Miller’s ‘Paradise’ at Dittrich & Schlechtriem

Lars Holdgate — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:16:55 +0000

The stairs leading down into the basement are enveloped in color. It’s not yet 7PM; there’s nothing to see. Shiny sheets obscure the works. A lonely shower curtain with colorful stripes stands guard on the back room’s central wall. It is itself an attraction. People crowd into a shrinking basement and eagerly await the big reveal. The space feels somewhat empty. Slim windows at the top of the…

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Maintenance Is a Drag: Ghislaine Leung at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

Alison Hugill — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:57:47 +0000

One of the first things I notice when entering the space is a discarded piece of paper—a candy wrapper—crumbled up on the floor. Trash. It’s a minor occurrence, but in the almost empty space, it stands out. Tape lines mark the floor, and cracks and holes punctuate the walls. Dust gathers in the corners. Ghislaine Leung presents the ground floor of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) “left as it is.

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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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Britzenale Opens Site-Specific Exhibition in Berliner Allotment Garden

Alison Hugill — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:24:43 +0000

Set in the allotment garden community “Zufriedenheit” (contentment), the 5th Britzenale opens this evening and runs until July 13th. A total of 11 site-specific installations and sculptures explore this year’s theme of mapping, which not only speaks to preconceived ideas surrounding these communities but also the environments that shape them. Britzenale location, ‘Zufriedenheit’ Kleingarten //

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Haptic Yearning: Toyin Ojih Odutola at Hamburger Bahnhof

Alison Hugill — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:50:12 +0000

Hamburger Bahnhof, as we know it, has only existed since the late 1980s. Previously the terminal station of the Hamburg-Berlin line, the train station was converted into a transportation museum, before becoming the contemporary art hub it is today. Back to its roots, the museum’s east cabinet has been transformed into a train station once more by Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola.

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Top Worldwide Exhibitions: Art Openings in Summer 2025

Alison Hugill — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:59:40 +0000

Every month, Berlin Art Link shines a spotlight on international exhibitions and events with our list of Top Worldwide Exhibitions. We want to highlight artists, galleries, museums and new projects touching on a variety of topics, employing multiple media and featuring diverse subjects. Below are some of the stand-outs that we’ve selected for the months of July and August. Fiona Tan…

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Tactile Engagement: Lygia Clark at Neue Nationalgalerie

Alison Hugill — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:37:44 +0000

Art history likes clairvoyants. Divine as a tea leaf, the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark heralded not one, but three casualties of the field: the death of painting, the death of the author, the death of the autonomous art object. If everything Clark happened to be around seemed to die shortly after, she also guaranteed that the lessons of each experiment found atavistic form in later work…

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Doing Life in Real Time: ‘For Real For Real’ at daadgalerie

Alison Hugill — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:48:35 +0000

“How can we, as workers of the imaginary, recognize the significance and poetics of being when all manners of racism, war, and patriarchal violence redirect the gaze from our indisputable presence?” This guiding provocation from the exhibition ‘For Real For Real’ at daadgalerie, curated by poet Claudia Rankine and The Racial Imaginary Institute, sets a tone of urgency, foregrounding a practice of…

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Productive Hope: ‘Fixing Futures’ at MGGU

Adela Lovric — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:28:48 +0000

At the Museum Giersch of Goethe University (MGGU) in Frankfurt am Main, the group exhibition ‘Fixing Futures. Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control’ gathers clashing, converging and contesting visions of tomorrow. Partnering with the graduate school Fixing Futures and the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) of the Goethe University Frankfurt, the museum presents 15 artistic…

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Keeping Close: Ritual and Grief at Bärenzwinger Berlin

Alison Hugill — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:54:05 +0000

The history of Bärenzwinger Berlin is unique. The space opened as a bear enclosure in August 1939, housing Urs, Vreni, Lotte and Jule, who were all gifts from the city of Bern to mark the 700th anniversary of Berlin’s founding in 1937. Since then, the small brick building in the middle of Köllnischen Park has been buried under rubble, restored, filled with new bear inhabitants, seen the birth of…

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