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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, 1

Letter from Mari Shaw in Berlin This is part 1 of four parts. Mona Hatoum, Undercurrent (red), 2008, Cloth covered electric cable, light bulbs, dimmer device, Edition of 3 plus 1 AP, at Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary, OsramHöfe, Berlin. image provided by Galerie Max Hetzler. Comments on this work will appear in part 3 of the post. I emerged bleary-eyed from Tegel Airport for Berlin’s Fourth Gallery Weekend. The sun was shining and a Berlin breeze swept the city’s energy over me. It is true. Berlin pulses. Four years ago, a group of prominent galleries in Berlin launched the Spring ... More » »