reviews 24.05.11 Judith Vrancken
Berlin
Konrad Fischer Galerie / Galerie Micky Schubert / Galerija Gregor Podnar
29/04/11 - 01/07/11
This spring, Berlin galleries show an intensified focus on installation art that comes with an intensified visual experience.
reviews 17.02.11 Kerstin Winking
Kerstin Brätsch and DAS INSTITUT scrutinize the role of the artist in the age of global capitalism, in which skilful branding is crucial to success.
Kunstverein in Crisis
13/12/10 Barbara Hess
The future of the Kunstverein is in jeopardy. These most experimental of Germany’s art centres are in danger of soon losing a good deal of their funding. A number of them recently gathered to discuss the situation in Cologne.
reviews 20.01.09 Erik van Tuijn
Krefeld (GER)
Kunstmuseen Krefeld: Museum Haus Lange und Haus Esters
12/10/08 - 25/01/09
How do you get an elephant into a matchbox? You squeeze him in of course. Or, if the Elephant is actually an oeuvre consisting of giant photo's, you could also make prints the size of stamps.
05/06/08 Otto Berchem
Atmospheric sketches of architecture and landscapes connected with one another in some mysterious way: Daniel Roth’s extremely varied yet very subdued work is equally megalomaniac and intimate, like only the best of art in the Romantic tradition.
A capricious elusiveness is an essential characteristic of the art of Jutta Koether. Black as night at one moment, shining with joy the next, she offers an oeuvre that appears to consist purely of side-paths. A profesional artistry that attests to great insight and virtuosity is alternated with the muddiest painting in the world: anit-art, anit-beauty, anti-everything. Who is she, and what does she want?
What is Bare Life?
Two commentaries
by Jennifer Allen and Paul Groot
22/10/06 Jennifer Allen, Paul Groot
The next Documenta has three leitmotifs. The second is devoted to the question, ‘What is bare life?’ METROPOLIS M asked two critics to give their initial reactions.