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Drop What You Are Doing and Come to Berlin, 4
Letter from Mari Shaw in Berlin, part 4 This is the last of four posts on Berlin’s Gallery Weekend. Links to the other posts are at the bottom. Among the exhibitions worth a look in the Hamburger Banhof area is Frontlines: Notations From The Contemporary Indian Urban in the newly opened space by India’s prominent Bodi Gallery, BodhiBerlin. Frontlines is the inaugural show for Bodi’s only gallery in Europe. YouTube video of Shaheen Merali explaining about Indian art. The exhibit’s curator, Shaheen Merali, examines what has become a subject of much contemporary art in India, the accelerated urbanization sweeping India ... More » »
Drop What You Are Doing and Come to Berlin, 3
Letter from Mari Shaw in Berlin, part 3 This is the third of four posts on Berlin’s Gallery Weekend. Links to the other posts are at the bottom. Mona Hatoum, Nature morte aux grenades (detail), 2006-2007, Crystal, mild steel and rubber, 95 x 208 x 70 cm, Edition of 5, photo courtesy Galerie Max Hetzler Around the corner from Barbara Weiss is Arndt and Partners, which is showing the work of Muntean/Rosenblum, an artist couple who work collaboratively. Muntean and Rosenblum describe their work as an exploration of painting. The show includes large representational paintings of expressionless, languorous teens, with ... More » »
Drop What You Are Doing and Come to Berlin, 2
Post by Mari Shaw This is part 2 of Mari Shaw‘s post about Berlin Gallery Weekend.Read Part 1. Parts 3 and 4 will follow. A must- see Gallery Weekend show is a large installation by Andreas Siekman that inaugurates Galerie Barbara Weiss’s new ground floor space on Zimmerstrasse. Andreas Siekman, detail, Negotiations Under Time Pressure, at Galerie Barbara Weiss. Photo courtesy of the gallery. Siekman is a brilliant, gifted artist who, along with his talented artist wife Alice Creischer, has been an important and active voice in Germany’s left-leaning intelligentsia since the 1970s. After completing their studies at the famed ... More » »
