You can put many labels on AA Bronson: art veteran, shaman, General Idea’s survivor, gay role model. But in fact I am not really interested in all the cliches spinning around his persona. Of course, this doesn’t mean I won’t tell you about General Idea or mention that AA is all about rituals – everything from ceremonial magic, witches covens, group
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Iris Van Herpen can either talk to aliens or see the future. Either way, her collections are unearthly beautiful and technologically creative and inspiring. Her Autumn/Winter 2011/2012 collection is just another proof for the Dutch fashion innovator’s genius. Of course, at Paris Haute Couture she didn’t present something basic you could wear when you throw the trash or go to
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Jiang Pengyi is well aware of the monstrous urbanization and expansion of excessive industrialization in China and Beijing particularly. He tries to look into the problem by creating miniature cities, photographing them and investigating them as a rapidly spreading phenomenon. My photographs of city, still objects and massive skyscrapers reduced to miniature sizes communicate my recurrent themes of excessive urbanization, redevelopment and
Read MoreIt seems like Luisa just started and she’s not really about to stop. Freshly graduated from Parsons the New School for Design, New York, she quickly gaining experience and filling a wonderful portfolio. Luisa Opalesky was born in Philadelphia and is currently based in NYC. Here is a selection of her collections Boys, Girls, Landscapes and Midst.
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Berlin Art Journal is the new-born offspring of the Berlin based magazine sugarhigh. I met one of the editors of BAJ (yes, it’s a cool online mag without a rubbish hierarchy), Alonso Dominguez and had a chat about the scene in Berlin and the future of writing about art. What is Berlin Art Journal? berlin art journal is a magazine
Read MoreWhen I go back to my roots, it is usually for either food or art. This time, it’s the latter. With an exhibition covering art from all (well, almost all; Bulgaria is not included) the former Eastern block countries, the New Museum New York exposes Eastern artists to Western judgement. In the nineties, the Germans coined a new word, Ostalgie,
Read MoreTo attend this event I’d only need to walk out of my place and walk 10 minutes to Tempelhof Park / Airport. Berlin is known for welcoming expats from all over the world who look for inspiration, re-invention and simply to play around. This is the backbone idea of StudioBerlin – to explore the symbiosis of diverse people, historical background
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UPDATE: BL33N.com is finally officially open! Yesterday my inbox had only one name in the sender section: Matthias Vriens-McGrath. There was also one single subject: BL33N. We were obsessing about the magazine, the clothes, the artists, the faces representing the idea and the images. It is a dog’s life choosing from the whole collection, so I will make it easy
Read MoreHold your breath, this will change your life. Melvin the Magical Mixed Media Machine (or just Melvin the Machine) is best described as a Rube Goldberg machine with a twist. Besides doing what Rube Goldbergs do best – performing a simple task as inefficiently as possible, often in the form of a chain reaction – Melvin has an identity. Actually,
Read MoreBad kissers are everywhere. God knows I unfortunately know loads of them. They either try to lick your face like a baset or just stay there with their mouth open and play the dead man. Sean, who has the same slimy problem with disappointing kissers, stumbled upon this amazing new make-out teaching device for couples. It is a witty art project
Read MoreThere are a lot of “before/after” images out there, but these captured my attention so intensely that they almost knocked me out. In the gallery, find a pick of Nicolai Howalt’s Boxer series capturing the expressions of young boxers before and after the fight. Nicolai Howalt was born in Copenhagen and graduated from Denmark’s Photographic Art School Fatamorgana in 1992
Read MoreYou have to pay closer attention on this one. There are hidden meanings in Kurt von Bley‘s art and if you just look at it and walk by, you wouldn’t see the layers of meanings hidden in the corners and the fine stitching of his artwork. You can see his work exhibited in Tape Modern’s Peep Show in Berlin. RSVP to the
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