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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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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The Week July 21–27, 2025

Anna — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 05:00:20 +0000

Curator’s Tour with Zasha Colah: Wednesday, July 23; 4–5pm 13.berlinbiennale.de/kuratorische-tour-mit-zasha-colah Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin, click here for map ‘When Lesbians Marry Gay Men’ Screening & Artist Talk with Xiaopei He & Popo Fan: Thursday, July 24; 7pm anorakanorak.com Gottlieb-Dunkel-Straße 43/44, 8th floor, 12099 Berlin Tempelhof…

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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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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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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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The Week July 14–20, 2025

Mariela Popova — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:02:17 +0000

DVOERODINA Collective: ‘Duale Heimat’ Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 15; 7pm Exhibition: July 15–22, 2025 kunstquartier-bethanien.de Projektraum, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, click here for map Lola von der Gracht: ‘We Are Everywhere’ Durational Performance: Wednesday, July 16; 5–8pm Artist Talk: Wednesday, July 16; 8:30pm at Bar Voyage flexen-flirren-fantasieren-en.ngbk.de U…

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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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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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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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