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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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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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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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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