15โ12โ2023 Bridging Histories: Künstlerische Begegnungen in der Kunsthalle Mainz In a time when the bridges once built by art seem to crumble, curator and researcher Malina Lauterbach stepped right across one – from Mainz all the way to Lubumbashi. Her review of the exhibition ๐๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ: ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฎ๐บ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ช ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ด at Kunsthalle Mainz wanders through the works of artists from the art centre Picha, situated in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Beyond the echoes of Kasala poetry invoking the anti-colonial struggles of miners, the secret engravings of a French horn muted by museum glass or the tale of a fish travelling through generations of history – Lauterbach locates the potential for resistance within the exchanges, frictions and even dissonances that bind the project. [Review in German]
26โ10โ2023 With(out) Words Die Auseinandersetzung mit den sozio-politischen ebenso wie poetischen Effekten verbaler und nonverbaler Sprache zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch die von Benedikt Johannes Seerieder kuratierte Ausstellung „Words Don't Go There“ im Kunstverein Braunschweig. Die Künstler:innen nehmen das Potenzial und die Grenzen von Sprache in ihren unterschiedlichen Formen, Texturen sowie Materialitäten in den Fokus. Wie können sprachliche Äußerungen durch andere Ausdrucksformen unterstrichen, umgekehrt oder gar ersetzt werden – und wo versagt Sprache?
18โ10โ2023 Dreaming Buried Promises Anew at the 35th Ljubljana Biennale Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Slovenia This year’s Biennale of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana reaches back to its origins and early aspirations, Lorenzo Graf and Zishi Han tell us. Their tour of the 35th edition was marked by a precisely curated collection of prints tracing transnational and generational bonds. Read their thoughts on the relational and militant capacities of printmaking, and the challenges faced by community-based practices in a rapidly gentrifying capital.
24โ09โ2023 Stories told from the cracks of a house Haus am Waldsee, Berlin In the rooms of this sprawling villa in Zehlendorf, Astakhishvili consistently explores questions of space, architecture, and nostalgia. A former home, the villa is transformed into a metaphor not only for protection and comfort, but also for violence, loneliness, and decay.
10โ09โ2023 mental furniture (of illiberal dreams) Ludwig Forum, Aachen Jandra Boettger's review of the show wanders through furniture forests and someone else's dreamscape, exploring the textures of the imagination and dreams.
01โ09โ2023 Dreaming of Heffalumps: Upholstered Anxieties DAS GERICHT, Frankfurt am Main In her review, Miriam Wierzchoslawska explores the solo show ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด by Gina Fischli at Frankfurt based DAS GERICHT. With witty and sharp observations about city planning, the "hunting" of the camera and objects in western museums, she investigates the interconnection between urban critters, haunting dreams and human anxieties.
21โ08โ2023 Careful Transgressions Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito While in Japan, Arash Shahali visited the thought-provoking exhibition ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ณ๐ต at the Contemporary Art Gallery of the Art Tower Mito. With gentle awareness he shares his encounter with the works and their generative power in renegotiating politics of care.
02โ08โ2023 All Fanced Up and Nowhere To Go Kunstverein Göttingen Editor-at-large Ben Livne Weitzman took a glimpse at Andy Fitz’s intimately delirious exhibition Stumped! Again! currently on view at the Kunstverein Göttingen. Wandering across Fitz’s domestic landscape, he reflects upon the tensions that reside in the rebellious splits and twists of their sculptures and installations.
16โ07โ2023 On the Threshold of Now and (potentially very) Soon Art Encounters Foundation Timiศoara, Romania In her latest review, Teodora Talhoศ walks us through some marking moments of the Art Encounters Biennial in Timiศoara, Romania. Read her critical reflection on the realities nested in the allegorical figure of the rhinoceros and on art's capacity to translate today's geopolitical urgencies through imagination.
04โ07โ2023 Reverberating Ioannina Onassis Stegi, Ioannina, Greece Beyond the dark screen, out in the open – PASSE-AVANT’s editor-at-large Ben Livne Weitzman recently traveled to the lakeside city of Ioannina, Greece, where he wrote about the public exhibition *Plásmata ΙΙ* by Onassis Stegi. Read his thoughts on the potential of digital art in invoking local narratives and new forms of participation.
04โ02โ2023 Recentering The West SculptureCenter, New York SculptureCenter in New York is currently showing „Re-Education“, Henrike Naumann's first exhibition in the USA. Based on the show, our author Katelynn Dunn writes about Naumann's artistic exploration of America's political divisiveness, centrism as a construct and extreme capitalism.
01โ02โ2023 Look at a car Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf In her brilliant text on Angharad William's solo show "Eraser" at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Gabriella Acha combines the exhibited works with Zadie Smith's The Guardian article on JG Ballard's Crash.
29โ01โ2023 Portal to a Place Beyond the Physical World Bielefelder Kunstverein Sequoia Scavullo's solo show „The Taste Of Your Fireplace“ invites visitors to repeatedly witness these moments of transformation, be it through encounters with deceased ancestors or imaginary lovers, odorous chemicals from moths' corpses, or the changes from water to mist and fire to ash. Like a portal, the exhibition leads to a place beyond the physical world, evoking a sense of transcendence within us.
14โ12โ2022 No Place for Our Quick Stuff Lothringer 13 Halle Sophie Paul reviews *Eccentric 80s*, reviving the practices of Tabea Blumenschein, Hilka Nordhausen, and Rabe perplexum, with contemporary responses from Ergül Cengiz, Philipp Gufler, and Angela Stiegler.
11โ12โ2022 Texturen des Begehrens FRAGILE, Berlin Unsere Autorin Marie-Sophie Dorsch spürt der bittersüßen Erfahrung des Begehrens in Leda Bourgognes Einzelausstellung "Tyranny of Tenderness" nach.
24โ11โ2022 A Red Blouse as a Glimpse of a World Looking Forward Our editor-at-large, Sonja Borstner, traces projects not to miss during Vienna Art Week 2022
11โ11โ2022 Windows in our hands EXILE Gallery Read Robin Waart’s piercing impressions from *Rare Earth Magnet*, Gwenn Thomas' exhibition at Vienna’s EXILE, with inserts by David Gruber and Alexander Jackson Wyatt.
04โ11โ2022 High Tides Busan Biennale, South Korea Guilherme Vilhena Martins shares his impressions and reflections from the Busan Biennale in South Korea’s second-largest city.
28โ10โ2022 What if we queer trust? Shedhalle Zürich Theresa Roessler reviews *Protozone 8: Queer Trust* at the Shedhalle, Zürich.
06โ10โ2022 „Orbs und Souvenirs“ Black Forest Institute of Art Diana Thun lädt uns ein, mit ihr durch eine Gruppenausstellung zu mäandern und dabei das Flimmern beim Zusammentreffen von neu geschaffenen und historischen Werken zwischen allerlei Dingen, Erinnerungen und Geschichten zu spüren.
