Cobo Social: 11th Berlin Biennale - Clara Tang. The 11th Berlin Biennale opened quietly in September 2020 across four major venues in Berlin—the KW Institute of Contemporary Art; Gropius Bau; daadgalerie; and ExRotaprint— unearthing new and surprising modes of thinking about wholesale art terminology including ‘diversity,’ ‘marginalised’ and ‘community-based art.’
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AAP Review Ran Zhang - Clara Tang. For the amateur, peering through a microscope is often accompanied by an excitement for the unfamiliar—looking through the lens to find a shape enlarged, the imperceptible rendered visible and thus fathomable to the human mind. Ironically, in the current global pandemic, both viral fear and salvation lie within the microscopic realm.
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Interview mit Eva Karl - Der Relevator. Ein diverses Team, ein offenes, diskurs-freudiges Haus, ein breites Publikum – das ist der Traum jeder Kunstinstitution und die “relevante” Zukunft, die sich auch Eva Karl wünscht. Aber wo anfangen mit dieser Vision? Mit ihrem Webseitenprojekt, dem sogenannten Relevator, denkt sich die Grafikdesignerin und Kunsthistorikerin in spe in mögliche Zukünfte des Kunstbetriebs hinein und stellt die wichtigen Fragen, deren Antworten die Kunstinstitutionen von morgen ausmachen werden.
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K-Pop aus Südkorea ist heute vor allem durch Boy-Groups wie BTS und Girl-Groups wie Twice bekannt, die mit ihren wechselnden Haarfarben und mitreißenden Pop-Tunes seit 2016 die größten Konzerthallen der Welt bespielen. Hypersynchrone Choreografien, makelloses Aussehen und die kollektive, internationale Fankultur gehören zum Erfolgsrezept des K-Pop, dessen Ursprünge bis weit in die Nachkriegszeit reichen, als amerikanische GIs präsent im Land waren.
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Interview with Isaac Chong Wai - The Berlin-based artist has a nose for systemic, underlying issues in (German) society. When I visited him in the studio, we talked about his new projects, his interest in German history and the way he deals with the current media coverage every day.
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On the occasion of Lee Mingwei’s exhibition “禮 Li, Gifts, and Rituals” in Berlin, Clara Tang speaks to the artist via Zoom to talk about his current projects, and his wild mix of interests spanning Buddhism, classical Chinese literature, and American folk painting.
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Social Media quillt über vor lauter Content - da sind unzählige Livestreams, Posts, die auf Youtube verweisen und vice versa. Ein Ende der Quarantäne und des damit verbundenen digitalen Kunststroms ist nicht in Sicht. Ist (online) dabei sein in Zeiten der Selbstisolation wirklich alles?
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Since the late 1980s, Berlin has been hailed as the artistic center of Germany. The city offers a high standard of living for its population, and, despite steady rent hikes, has been affordable compared to the rest of the country. These conditions have also attracted crowds of artists, curators, and…
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When art historian Mia Yu started looking into the artist Pan Yuliang (also known as Pan Yulin) in 2017, she asked a simple question: “Who are you?” Yu wasn’t looking for facts—documents on Pan, one of the first women to join Chinese and European artist circles in the 1920s and ’30s, are abundant. Yu was after Pan’s personal view as a…
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As teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg sailed across the North Atlantic Ocean to the United Nations Climate Action summit on a zero-emissions yacht, and the burning Amazon forest dominated news headlines in August, the climate crisis loomed large in global political and social arenas. A small exhibition at Portikus, in Frankfurt, offered another …
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Founded in 2006 as a book club, the Berlin-based artist collective Slavs and Tatars are driven by the frictions found between linguistic systems. With a particular focus on Eurasia, which they define as the “area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China,” their interdisciplinary practice ranges from…
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After graduating from the New Media Department at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2008, Lin Ke—his real name, which also happens to sound like the word “link”—discovered virtual user interfaces as his medium of choice. Since then, electronic devices and the Internet have become his…
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One late, rainy afternoon in March, I traveled to the far end of Berlin’s Tempelhof district to visit the artist Song-Ming Ang in his studio. Located on the third floor of an inconspicuous building that houses everything from a car repair shop to a printing company, Ang’s studio resembles a…
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