Mnemosyne Lost
HKW in Berlin revives Aby Warburg’s original picture atlas. For contemporary audiences it is a display both evocative and impenetrable.
HKW in Berlin revives Aby Warburg’s original picture atlas. For contemporary audiences it is a display both evocative and impenetrable.
Curator Frank Wagner and artist David Wojnarowicz were part of communities that we should not forget. Exhibitions at KW and Between Bridges in Berlin make sure we don’t.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin has started the last chapter of the broad-reaching trilogy that started with The Anthropocene Project in 2013. This time, it is all about the alphabet.
“They have approved a building without considering what it is actually supposed to contain,” says Nivi Christensen on the forthcoming museum in Nuuk.
Fewer artists and a deeper focus make the 16th Gwangju Biennale a rare, organic experience.
Bonniers Konsthall develops Peter Weiss’s novel The Aesthetics of Resistance into an exhibition, but its core theme – class struggle – is conspicuously absent.
Kirsten Ortwed has spent a lifetime pushing sculpture to the edge. On the Danish isle of Bornholm, her art fits in almost suspiciously well.