Marking an important development in artist Anna Gaskell’s work, the recent exhibition, “Paint Your Own Pictures” at Yvon Lambert New York, consisted solely of films. The exhibition installation, designed in collaboration with architects EMA Designs, featured three new films, all completed in 2006 and 2007, titled Acting Lessons, Vermilion (That’s All I Remember) and Mirror. […]

What makes video art different? From a gallery’s point of view there are many answers to this question. Video, as a medium widely accepted in exhibition practice and which plays a dominant role in big art events like Documenta or the Venice Biennial, is still considered a newcomer by the art market despite its almost […]

My work stimulates unconscious emotions, desires and sexual compulsions, all unified within a dynamic that vacillates between the real and the fantasized. I explore issues related to madness and alienation as they exist in contemporary culture, concentrating on expressions of neurosis, on feelings of anxiety, displacement and loss of identity. These emotions are depicted in […]

Chinese artist Zhu Ming is, without a doubt, one the most important performance artists of the international avant-garde. From his first appearance in the seminal group work by the Beijing East Village artists, To Add a Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, Zhu Ming has created performance works that leave an indelible impression upon the viewer […]

I’m a self-taught photographer in my late 20s living, unfortunately, in Florida. I’ve had no schooling or training of any sort in this field. Instead, I’ve learned by trial and error, and have just gone where my head has taken me. This has probably held me back technically some, especially since I started out making […]

A hulking yet mysteriously timid looking carcass is quietly disappearing under the watchful eye of the TV tower in the middle of historic East Berlin. The cranes and anonymous workers toil all day disassembling, piece-by-piece, the former government headquarters of the German Democratic Republic. Known as the Palast der Republik, the building controversially replaced Berlin’s […]

For decades, Berlin has attracted artists from all over the globe with its affordable lifestyle and vibrant art community. Although the job opportunities aren’t sprouting up left and right, artists’ spaces and galleries certainly are. These spaces are no longer only located in the strongholds of Auguststrasse or Zimmerstrasse—areas that once held reign over the […]

The exhibition of Roseline de Thelin’s works, “Changing Weather,” presents a Utopian Chinese lightscape composed of light sculptures, videos and digital artworks that reflect upon the many changes occurring in China today. Having viewed climate changes and the increasing number of storms that cross our skies, the artist transforms 10 Chancery Lane Gallery in Central […]

"Solution Proposition," a series of one dozen photographs accompanied by autobiographical text, is both an experimental concept and a real life action project. It seeks to draw attention to a widespread social phenomenon that nonetheless remains a social taboo: prostitution. Through her own words and photographs (designed with the help of photographer Xu Yong), co-creator […]

Shinichi Maruyama’s work is subconsciously influenced by a Japanese sense of beauty. This sense of beauty can be found in the concept of “wabi-sabi,” referring to the beauty of imperfection and understated elegance. Additionally, this beauty is also expressed in “ma,” the use of negative space, found in the art of calligraphy as well as […]