September 2023
‘Dui Jip Ki,’ (Korean for “to flip”) was an exploration of the multidirectional nature of Korean contemporary art, exhibiting various artists’ practices of turning established histories, traditional methods, and natural processes upside down and into something new.
May 2023
“I’m interested in how certain strands of my biography fit into a wider global history of Germany, the GDR, and contract workers coming to Germany,” said Sung Tieu of her intertwining of archival research, fiction, and a notably distanced approach to her own personal experience.
FEBRUARY 2023
During her 2019 residency at Hauser & Wirth’s converted farmstead in Somerset, England, Bharti Kher was confronted with a way of working that was quite different from her norm.
February 2023
Symbolic, arbitrary, and deadly, borders take on multiple meanings in Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s 2022 film, 45th Parallel, recently shown at Spike Island art space in Bristol.
August 2022
For all its by now extensively analyzed, criticized, and theorized failings, this year’s Documenta is nevertheless a total treat for Europe-based audiences to get acquainted with collectives and scenes that might otherwise remain distant.
JULY 2022
In 2020, the Berlin-based artist aaajiao publicly criticized the Chinese government’s response to the devastating floods that swept through the country’s central and eastern provinces from June to September that year.
JUNE 2022
Movement was at the heart of Dayanita Singh’s “Dancing with my Camera” at Berlin’s Gropius Bau.
March 2022
The use of daylight in Georgian artist Thea Djordjadze’s solo exhibition at Berlin's Gropius Bau, “all building as making,” focused the senses to the rhythms of the institution.
March 2022
“How can I make art when all the world is a conceptual artwork? What do you do then?” Simon Fujiwara is known for his complex and multilayered works...
November 2021
For Seoul-based Kwon, her sojourn in Berlin was the catalyst for a new direction in her ongoing investigation into concepts of home, navigation, and place.
July 2021
Located in Berlin's western district of Charlottenburg, the modern and airy apartment of aaajiao is not as grandiose as its exterior suggests...
June 2021
Berlin-based Syrian artist Khaled Barakeh is the founder of coculture, a nonprofit organization that supports displaced artists from the Middle East with various initiatives, including the forthcoming Syrian Biennale, a traveling event following refugee routes...
March 2021
Focused on the conditions of marginality, Hiwa K’s films, installations, and performances probe themes of migration, identity, and collectivity, and gesture to the geopolitical ties between his native Kurdistan and other places that he has called home...
November 2020
Comprising sound, artifacts, and film, the show’s centerpiece unfolds inside HKW’s lower-level space, acoustically transformed through suspended and concealed speakers that create a polyphonic soundscape...
May 2017
Time was a recurring theme in Liang’s ShanghArt Shanghai solo exhibition, “Sha Sha Sha,” its various implications and narratives layered and woven to striking effect...
August 2017
It was fitting that Philippe Parreno spoke little at the vernissage of his China debut, “Synchronicity” at Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum, in July.
May 2017
Recent years have seen Liaoning-born He Xiangyu emerge as a rising star of the fast-paced and fickle world of Chinese contemporary art.