A Mirror, Darkly. In Conversation with Michaël Borremans
Seeing a painter’s studio always feels intimate. It’s impossible to keep your eyes from darting around. Soaking up the surround. Trying to piece…
Louisa Elderton
When Your Smile Is So Wide and Your Heels Are So High: The Paintings of Louisa Gagliardi
My father recently told me how he often walks around the house opening doors and gazing into empty rooms. He…
Xinyi Cheng “The Horse with Eye Blinders” Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart / Berlin
The view from my bedroom window looks out onto a courtyard framed by a towering window-less wall. Some mornings, when…
Stream of consciousness 12th Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial
As I descended the airplane stairs, having escaped Berlin’s chill for Mali’s warmth, my headphones delivered a drumbeat that evaded…
Wu Tsang Gropius Bau / Berlin
A gold curtain shimmers from a flagpole and catches the light; crystals cascade in thin streams and reflect rainbows; sunrays…
Carroll Dunham Galerie Eva Presenhuber / Zurich
Body parts are also abstract shapes in Carroll Dunham’s “Recent Paintings,” the figure playfully winking at geometry. His mid-scale canvases…
Raphaela Vogel Berlinische Galerie / Berlin
How much control do we really have over who sees us, how, and when? Known for her video sculptures, which…