Afterimage and Aura: Liminal Art by Gary Hill

In the history of Visual Art, image has constantly integrated with text, such as early Egyptian frescoes, medieval religious paintings with Bible quotations, and 20th century cubist paintings. There were

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To the Memory of Jeanne-Claude

For the original German and French versions of this text please visit pokusberlin.com If Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrapping actions enable us to rediscover entire buildings, if hiding helps to see

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Fragments of the Present: Katharina Grosse, “It Wasn’t Us”

For the original German version of this text please visit pokusberlin.com   Between presence and past future An iceberg, consisting of several fragmented floes, rises from the one-dimensional, colourful surface

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The Breathing Of Particles

  On the ground, face down, she’s collapsed, Resigned. The fight has been hard, Anxious, Eerie, A body at risk, A mind overwhelmed. There was something under her skin, wasn’t

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Meditation by the window: Bettina Pousttchi, “Panorama”

“Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window.” […] “Perhaps you will say: “Are you sure that your

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Rayyane Tabet: fragments of history, history in fragments

[Fragment, n. : 1. Piece of a thing that’s been broken, shattered. 2. Part of a work whose essence has been lost or has not been composed. Part extracted from

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ABEL TECHER AND THE GENDER FLUIDITY

I didn’t want to write about your work Abel, I just wanted to transcribe the exchange we had yesterday in your workshop and publish it as it is. It’s not

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THOMAS WATTEBLED ET LES VAINQUEURS DE RIEN

Ce sont de grandes masses de béton, dressées là au centre de la galerie Doyanglee. En s’approchant, on y découvre d’étonnantes marbrures jaunes, roses ou bleues. Elles sont les traces

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Hito Steyerl, “This is the Future” (2019)

Hito Steyerl’s video installation This is the Future (2019), a garden of the future, is a composition of digital plants: screens blossom on metallic stems. The garden was conceived by artificial intelligence

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Reflection on Identity: Iranian Artists at the Pergamon

The first time I moved to Berlin, I went directly to the Pergamon Museum. I had dreams in my head. Dreams about the Ishtar Gate and the Mshatta Hall. The first

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