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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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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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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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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