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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 […]

David Shterenberg Selma Stern It is difficult to find an artist of the twentieth century who has been more neglected by art history than the artist David Shterenberg. His works were banned in the 60s and 70s and neither Russian nor foreign art critics were allowed access to Shterenberg’s art works. When the Russian avant-garde […]

Sandrine Kern: New Landscapes     Often, when one downloads a video clip or a music file or a job application from the Internet, one can also download the program that would allow them to run the video, play the music, print the application. To provide the tool that would allow that information to be […]

"Die Critic, Die, Die" James Kalm We seem to be caught in an age of sequels, prequels, and remakes. This isn’t just about the Lord of the Rings II, or The Matrix III, but our whole culture, which seems to be, like the characters in Groundhog Day, stuck in an ever repeating recycle of time. […]

Josiane Sode Erica Snow Reviews are composed according to a particular writer’s interest levels, biases, mood swings, and of course hubris on any given day. My experience with the abstract paintings of Josiane Soder was framed by the circumstance of a week of visual overload. The visual fatigue coupled with a text to pour over […]

Andreas Jaeggi Erica Snow The works New York Zippers by artist Andreas Jaeggi are a linear series of somber unstretched canvases linked by dark plastic lines of zippers. The series continues the artist’s impressionistic documentation of European and American urban centers, familiar landmarks. These paintings are tied together and have the conceptual link of recording […]