Water – Berlin Art Link

Personifying the River: Tatort Paderborn 2025

Alison Hugill — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:30:27 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Water. After more than a decade, Tatort Paderborn—a series of site-specific exhibitions aimed at reappraising Paderborn’s public space, which started in 2007 and ran through 2014—made its return to the West-German city with a third instalment titled ‘Der Fluss bin ich’ (I am the River). The river in question, the Pader, is the subject and setting of this…

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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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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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Letter from the Editor: Water

Alison Hugill — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:02:14 +0000

This article is part of our feature topic Water. While ‘Water’ might just seem like a refreshing topic for summer, especially as we’re launching into Berlin’s first major heatwave of the year, its meanings in contemporary art and theory are more circumspect, with references drawing from texts like Astrida Neimanis’ ‘Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water’ and Kamau Braithwaite’s more…

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Art-as-Life for the New Generation: An Interview with Ben Elliot

Alison Hugill — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:14:54 +0000

Ben Elliot treads a fine-line between vacuous consumerism and crushingly emotional terrains. At first glance, you may write this Parisian off as an influencer, party-boy or even a troll, but his soft, off-the-cuff quips and delicate positing of slang and attention economy leave you reflecting on a certain lifestyle (that chances are you buy into, too). His work is made up of selfies, pop-up shops…

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A Language for a Shifting Climate: An Interview with Cooking Sections

Isabelle Hore-thorburn — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:55:33 +0000

Art historians have long drawn upon the rich symbolism and allegorical potential of food in art. From Cézanne’s Still Life with Onions and a Bottle to Jana Sterbak’s Vanitas, Flesh Dress for An Albino Anorecticthe, depictions of food offer compelling insights into the particular attitudes and politics of a period. For Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, food is not simply a metaphor but a…

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As We Used to Float: An Interview with Julian Charrière

Isabelle Hore-thorburn — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:12:39 +0000

Julian Charrière is the 2018 recipient of the GASAG Art Prize. His career to date articulates the award’s focus on the intertwining of art, technology and science. Since studying under Olafur Eliasson at the Institut für Raumexperimente, the French-Swiss conceptual artist has travelled to some of the most hazardous and remote locations on earth, producing poetic reportages on the consequences of…

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Reframing Human Perception at Ballroom Marfa

Emily McDermott — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:31:31 +0000

After a minute or two of sitting in the Feeling Hole (2018), dug by artist and activist Nance Klehm in the courtyard of Ballroom Marfa, the yellow Texas sun begins washing visitors in heat and Vitamin D—a baptism devoid of dogma. It’s an invigorating experience, one hard to find in most exhibitions, as spectator becomes object and the soil canvas. First come the ants, crawling out of tiny holes to…

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Hypersea and Hydrofeminism: An Interview with Lou Cantor

Emily McDermott — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:00:58 +0000

Earlier this year, Juliette Desorgues curated an exhibition for artmonte-carlo entitled ‘Hypersea,’ featuring the work of artists including Mimosa Echard, Rebecca Jagoe, Jala Wahid, the Young Girl Reading Group and Berlin-based collective Lou Cantor. Having taken place on a luxury yacht moored at Port Hercule, the show provided occasion to consider the nexus of a number of discourses—social…

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Diana Thater at The ICA Watershed: Spectacular Images, Diluted Messages

Jack Radley — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:00:32 +0000

This summer, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston inaugurated the ICA Watershed, a satellite art space that aims to extend the institution’s cultural footprint across the harbor to the historic East Boston Shipyard. Renovated by Anmahian Winton Architects, the formerly-condemned copper pipe factory has become a 15,000 square-foot cultural space for exhibitions of blue-chip artists and local…

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Sarah Cameron Sunde on Water as a Canvas and Collaborator

Emily McDermott — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 07:30:04 +0000

Sarah Cameron Sunde has spent much of her career keeping her physical body out of her work. After all, her artistic mother tongue is theater directing. As such, she has spent 19 years working as a theater producer and director. Yet she can increasingly be found at the center of scrutiny—partially because another aspect of her work, which she only reluctantly and perhaps begrudgingly calls…

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