The Mirror of You Absence of Gravity: Excerpts from Nuovo Spazio Italiano Fabio Cavallucci They are determined and disillusioned. They prefer MTV and mp3s to history of art and classical music. They toy with themselves and with art, having first deprived it of all its aura and drawn it closer to daily life. They do […]

Ameri©an Dre@m A Survey at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Devon Costello and Esme Watanabe What is the American dream represented in this show and whose dream is it? The politics are clear from the ironic interplay of language and symbols in the title. The "American" is a commercial trademark, the "Dre@m" is the faceless mobility […]

News from Bosnia Herzegovina: Edin Numankadic Allan Graubard Edin Numankadic is one of Sarajevo’s leading artists. In a city still emerging from the genocidal war protracted against it in the 1990s, Numankadic, by way of his person and his art, is cause for hope. A tall energetic man in his 50s, he draws you to […]

Valie Export und die Erschaffung der Wirklichkeit Claudia Recorean Valie Export, geboren 1940 in Österreich, 1991 bis 1995 Vizepräsidentin HdK Berlin, heute Professorin an der Kölner Hochschule für Medien ist eine der bedeutendsten Vorreiterinnen der Performance- und Medienkunst der frühen siebziger Jahre bis heute. Zu Recht widmet die NGBK und die Akademie der Künste dieser […]

The Flesh and Bone of Moral Theory Mark Daniel Cohen The principle of art we have inherited from Nietzsche is easily conceived. As the primary influence on aesthetic thinking for the last 100 years, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche endows us with a clear project and uncomplicated goal: Art is not a conveyance of conceptual thought […]

Not Neutral: Contemporary Swiss Photography @ Grey Art Gallery Heidi Weiss "Not Neutral: Contemporary Swiss Photography" presents the work of nine artists, including Annelies Strba and Ugo Rondinone. Also featured are emerging photographers such as Daniele Buetti, Hans Danuser, Katrin Freisager, Claudio Moser, Cat Tuong Nguyen, Marco Poloni, and Peter Tillessen. Curated by Urs Stahel […]

Berlin: Don’t miss in april Steve Johnson During the summer of 2001, the british artist Steve Johnson worked as Guest Artist at Kunstfabrik, Berlin. To some extent his works exhibited now are an Eglishmans reflections on Berlin–from an outsider’s perspective. He shows a dialogue between collective urban space and deep-time, in particular, pedestrian islands and […]

Reason’s Dream, Reason’s Nightmare (#2) Robert Storr (…) What survived in exile and has comes back an art predicated on the centrality of contradiction, and more especially of self-contradiction pitched to the point of wild hysteria or frozen in catatonic arabesques. Since Surrealism and, before it, Dada, are the wellsprings of so much of the […]

Medium: Installation–Der Berliner Kunstverein empty rooms Matthias Harder Das Medium Installation hat zu einer Neudefinition des Ausstellungsraumes geführt; dieser ist nicht mehr bloße Hülle für das ausgestellte Kunstwerk, sondern verbindet sich mit ihm zu einem Ganzen. Es gibt viele Vorläufer in der Kunstgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts; doch insbesondere die Erlebnisräume und teilweise benutzbaren Environments der […]

�Nu� et les autres H�l�ne Jourdan-Gassin Nu, est-ce un groupe de jeunes artistes français ? Oui et non, et c’est là une de leurs particularités. Oui, pour la jeunesse, ils ont tous moins de 30 ans, oui pour la formation artistique, tous sont diplômés des beaux-arts de Paris. Non, si on veut considérer les six […]