The toxic building – How Jan Glisman turned the deconstruction of the Deutsche Welle towers into a multimedia art project
Sunday, 03 July 2022
by elke
All Jan Glisman really wanted to do was to "just" document a spectacular event in Cologne: The demolition of all three parts of the 138-metre-high Deutsche Welle broadcasting tower, the third-highest building in the city. The funding had been approved, the plans worked out, but then - everything turned out quite differently. The risk to the broadcasting operations of Deutschlandfunk, which is connected by a common foundation slab, and the spread of asbestos fibres feared by residents in the neighbourhood had prevented the blasting. “Blasting” therefore became "deconstruction". A process that was to extend over a total of five years and challenged Glisman to document precisely that period. Huge numbers of photos, video material and drawings were initially created without any concrete idea of what was to happen with them ...
- Published in Architecture, Art projects, Exhibition reviews, Graphics, Mulitimedia, Photography, Video Art
Wilko Austermann – Focus on the curator, Episode 3 of the series “Behind the Arts”
Tuesday, 12 April 2022
by elke
Anybody travelling in the Rhineland and visiting the Upcoming artists exhibitions, is very likely to have come across his name. Whether the Antichambre in the Hotel Friends in Düsseldorf, Malkastenpark, MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, Quartier am Hafen Köln or Krefeld Kunstverein, you will find: Curated by Wilko Austermann. What exactly does a curator do? Or, to put it more accurately: How does Wilko Austermann personally define his responsibilities? We meet at MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, where he uses the example of Yoana Tuzharova's Plasma soil exhibition, that he conceptualised, to talk about his main ideas. It becomes immediately obvious, that here we have a classic case of being able to differentiate between profession and vocation.
- Published in Architecture, Art projects, Behind the Arts, Exhibition reviews
FACES OF EUROPE by Carsten Sander – Interactive behind the scenes
Sunday, 18 October 2020
by tom-admin
- Published in Art projects, Photography, Public Art
Philipp Humm – Faust as Gesamtkunstwerk of the 21st century?
Sunday, 19 January 2020
by tom-admin
London, film premiere of The Last Faust. Both the trailer and even just a brief look at Philipp Humm's Gesamtkunstwerk*, his total work of art (graphics, photography, oil painting and sculpture) which now comprises one hundred and fifty works, astonished me beyond belief. Yet what I see today in the cinema hall and will see in his studio tomorrow is absolutely beyond my expectations. A fascinating mix of surreal, bizarre, comical yet also oppressively visionary images draws me directly into a cinematic future of the world. A world, where artificial intelligence has taken control over planet Earth ...
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A 4 Foundation – An innovative art lab
Tuesday, 26 March 2019
by tom-admin
Cape Town. There are academies, galleries, museums, art exhibitions, festivals ... and now also a laboratory to experiment with art. At the initiative of the collector Wendy Fisher and her curator Josh Ginsburg, an innovative institute, the A4 Foundation, came into being in 2017, right in the middle of Cape Town. Here, space – literally and figuratively - was created for the passionate experimentation with art, new forms of art funding and communication of art and, particularly, for trying things out. Today, in our conversation with Josh Ginsburg, we hear some more about it ...
- Published in Architecture, Art market, Art projects, Artcollectors, Exhibition reviews
Mischa Kuball – Irritation as a concept
Sunday, 20 January 2019
by tom-admin
Berlin, Jewish Museum. I have an appointment with Mischa Kuball in the Libeskind building, one of THE contemporary architectural icons of Berlin. His light and sound installation res·o·nant, specially created for this location, remarkably illustrates the working method of this conceptual artist, who has been presenting his artistic statements in public and institutional spaces since 1977.
- Published in Architecture, Art projects, Exhibition reviews, Mulitimedia, Public Art
Matthias Wollgast – Genius Appropriation
Sunday, 22 July 2018
by tom-admin
- Published in Art projects, Digital Art, Exhibition reviews, Graphics, Installation Art, Mulitimedia, Newcomer, Photography, Sculpture, Studio visits, Video Art
Markus Ambach – The city as a studio
Sunday, 24 June 2018
by tom-admin
- Published in Art projects, Exhibition reviews, Public Art, Studio visits
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