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Scorpio's Garden

Scorpio's Garden at Berlin's Temporäre Kunsthalle was a very beautiful show. All by Berlin-based artist and curated by Danish artist Kirstine Roepstorff, an explicitly subjective snapshot of a certain scene. continue

Artissima - The photographs

A short selection of the photo works i saw at Turin's contemporary art fair earlier this month continue

Artissima, Turin's contemporary art fair

Artissima never disappoints. It is decidedly the edgiest and most exciting contemporary art fair in the country. In fact, you'd almost think that people come here because they love art, not just because they want to buy, invest and speculate continue

Bas Princen, Mokattam Ridge (Garbage city)

I first thought Princen's photograph was fake. How could this be real? Looking online for the location of the photo, Mokattam, i discovered the image is authentic. It's a suburb of Cairo, called Garbage City. A community of mainly Coptic Christians were allowed to collect and dispose of Cairo's waste by feeding it to their pigs continue

Persona. Ritual masks and contemporary art

I can't recommend the visit of Persona enough. First, there's the museum, its colonial-era hauteur is so un-PC, it sometimes made me cringe but it needs to be experienced before the place is renovated to a modern, polite and friction-proof version of itself. The exhibition itself presents the most breathtaking collection of masks i've ever seen continue

Feedforward. The Angel of History. Part 2: Globalization and agency

Together, the projects featured in Feedforward create a complex picture of the global political and social forces that drive us forward. The exhibition features both the problematic aspects of the present and future, and the potential for collectivity and responsible action. At the nadir of the current global economic crisis, Feedforward is in effect about cleaning up after the 20th century and asks the question, what is progress now? continue

Shelter of the day

Part of Thomas Demand's show Nationalgalerie, Haltestelle is a large-scale photograph of a paper model resembling a nondescript rural German bus shelter, which happens to be the place just outside of Magdeburg where a teen pop band were waiting for their school bus every morning. continue

Feedforward. The Angel of History. Part 1: Wreckage and countermeasures

The exhibition addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces--largely enabled by the "progress" of digital information technologies--inexorably feed us forward continue

Book Review - Art and Electronic Media

A comprehensive, timely international survey that addresses the relationship between art and electronic technology, this volume explores the presence and meanings of mechanics, light, graphics, robots, virtual reality and the Web in the art and visual culture of the last hundred years. It also considers the reaction, development and future of artistic practice in the face of new technology continue

Mark Amerika retrospective at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens

Developing projects on the net, filming with mobile phones, remixing common moments and figures of today`s culture in an VJ-like audiovisual rhythm, Amerika redifines the characteristics of today's culture and opens up the possibilities for new interpretations and thoughts from the audience itself continue

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