Bad Taste or Ugly Truth?
In constellations of kitschy furniture, Henrike Naumann’s show at KOW in Berlin addresses the still-fraught aftermath of German reunification.
Review
The Reinvention of the World
Tiril Hasselknippe’s brew of blissful neo-materialism and banal video game aesthetics is just the right amount of a good thing, i.e. too much.
Harald the Hero
The father of modern curating, Harald Szeeman, is memorialised at Castello di Rivoli in Turin with a lavish presentation of obsessive archiving and a hint of kitsch.
The Sublime Schizo-Aesthetics of the Chinese Restaurant
Lap-See Lam demonstrates the advantages that transhumanism, technocapitalism, and post-internet art have in common.
Hi, Great-Grandma!
Anton Vidokle’s cosmo-philosophical films push pre-revolutionary man towards immortality. The result is pan-historic sci-fi of the highest calibre.
A Troll’s Tall Tale
Can Tori Wrånes’s melancholic fairy-feminism save us from patriarchy?
From Flesh to Pixel
Louisiana’s grand Pipilotti Rist show presents 30 years of intimate exchanges between body and screen, from low-fi punk to immersive installations.
Too Close for Comfort
Using fainting and surgery as subject matter, Marianna Simnett explores the immediacy of the medicalised body at Copenhagen Contemporary.
Homeric Escape
The Berlin film festival’s experimental extension seeks to renegotiate the relationship between moving images and life.
Seeing Double
Lindsay Seer’s colour-restrained and inverted photographs attempt to rescue the image from manipulative discourses.
Putting the Past Behind Us
Lund’s Konsthall’s exhibition about Chile’s contemporary history is at its best when it establishes critical distance to its politically and emotionally charged subject.
Hat Mountain
How Destiny’s Gratinée at Kunstnernes Hus sent me into a meditation on hats and painted chambers from the 15th century.
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Bad Taste or Ugly Truth?
In constellations of kitschy furniture, Henrike Naumann’s show at KOW in Berlin addresses the still-fraught aftermath of German reunification.
Horizontal Network Film
How can a film be a landscape? This is at the core of Swedish artist John Skoog’s first feature-length film, showcased at the CPH:DOX festival opening today.
The Reinvention of the World
Tiril Hasselknippe’s brew of blissful neo-materialism and banal video game aesthetics is just the right amount of a good thing, i.e. too much.
Harald the Hero
The father of modern curating, Harald Szeeman, is memorialised at Castello di Rivoli in Turin with a lavish presentation of obsessive archiving and a hint of kitsch.
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