Blog entries by Rachel Simkover
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by Rachel Simkover, 2 Feb 2012Television commercials and portrait painting are brought side by side in Sebastian Biskup’s solo exhibition at 7Hours Haus 19. This unlikely pairing has been given a similar systematic treatment, and the result is a body of work that is aesthetically and conceptually cohesive. The acrylic paintings consist of... -
by Rachel Simkover, 29 Jan 2012The figure of Javier Perés doesn’t need to be introduced to those who know Berlin’s art scene. The founder of already almost legendary “Peres Projects”, which currently has two locations in Berlin (previously also in Los Angeles and Athens), and the contemporary art dealer whose critical... -
by Rachel Simkover, 26 Jan 2012The white cube is packed and the boxes are ventilated; sisters Dina and Julia Boswank are working together for the first time for this exhibit at Satellit Berlin. Although they work in different mediums, Dina using video and sound and Julia working with drawing and collage, they are interested in bringing... -
by Rachel Simkover, 23 Jan 2012mobile pics from the events we visited last week... TUESDAY 17.01 Berlin Fashion Week Opening @.HBC WEDNESDAY 18.01 Bar 3 - (no kidding this bag ' s name is Hobo) bar 3 THURSDAY 19.01 Deconstructing Reynold Reynolds @ LEAP THE RESCUE OF THE EFFECTS - Notes for a Theory of... -
by Rachel Simkover, 19 Jan 2012The press photo for Andrea Dettmar’s debut Berlin exhibition at Scotty Enterprises depicts a man emerging from or being sucked into an Etruscan Tomb. Paired with the title of the show, hatch, the photograph demonstrates the most literal relationship with the word’s definition: “an opening of... -
by Rachel Simkover, 13 Jan 2012This month I have selected a handful of books that cover the basic incentives for traveling so that you, reader, can avoid cramped red-eye flights, immunization shots, visa nightmares, and meat in your supposedly vegetarian meals. Maybe we can’t all afford the time and money to travel the world, so these books... -
by Rachel Simkover, 14 Dec 2011Twelve artists, one background: Turkey There is no conceptual or formal framework that connects all of the works in the exhibition Zwölf im Zwölften at Tanas; the premise of the show is purely biographical: all of the participating artists are from Turkey and are currently practicing abroad. The exhibition... -
by Rachel Simkover, 7 Dec 2011The story behind origins of the Cell63 art gallery is unique. Luisa Catucci worked in Italy as an illustrator and graphic designer before moving to Berlin seven years ago (when Berlin wasn’t as popular as it is today). She wanted to have an atelier for herself with a showroom so she could display her own... -
by Rachel Simkover, 2 Dec 2011Two months ago I was pining for the NY Book Art Fair and wondering if I could scrape together enough money to visit NYC for the weekend. It didn’t happen, but fortunately, a book fair came to me in the form of Miss Read at KW. Although not as fancy or extensive as the New York fair, the quality of the... -
by Rachel Simkover, 23 Nov 2011Christiane Grüß, born in Freiberg, studied theater and economics and worked as a nurse before founding 7hours. While working in the pathological museum in Berlin in the late 80s the relation of the display of anatomical specimens to art became clear, both were focused on form and questioning. She started... -
by Rachel Simkover, 15 Nov 2011What is immediately striking about the show, Surrogate at Galerie Axel Obiger is the tension between the two bodies of work presented. Granted both artists are concerned with exploring photography’s potential as a medium (and photography’s relationship to painting), but their investigations take... -
by Rachel Simkover, 14 Nov 2011Before there was text there was the image, a subjective representation of the surrounding reality. The text itself seems to be more complex. It consists of many layers including the semantic, the information, and the visual layer. In everyday life we focus on the meanings of words, which are formed by... -
by Rachel Simkover, 8 Nov 2011Diego Castro and Eva May are preparing for the upcoming exhibition of Franziska Wildt’s work in their space Gitte Bohr: Galerie für Kunst und politisches Denken opening this Thursday, the 10th of November at 7pm. They took some time out of their busy schedules to answer some questions about their space and... -
by Rachel Simkover, 31 Oct 2011I am sure that everyone had their fair share of Halloween activities this past weekend, so instead of a supernatural booklist, I have decided to go extraterrestrial. Maybe you are bored with, disappointed in, or ambivalent towards this planet, so this week’s list will at the outset take you elsewhere, but these... -
by Rachel Simkover, 25 Oct 2011Before your eyes is the second installment of the latest supplement to the BPIGS blog, in which I, an avid reader, collector, and book browser, provide you with a suggested reading list composed of art related books found in Berlin. Considering all of the occupations of cities that have spread worldwide, the books on... -
by Rachel Simkover, 18 Oct 2011Welcome to the newest addition to the BPIGS blog, a weekly suggested reading list of art-related printed matter all of which, for your convenience, can be found in Berlin! But first, who am I, and what are my qualifications for providing you with reading suggestions? Born and raised in California and educated in the...
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