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5th Berlin Biennial Off I trotted to the 5th Berlin Biennial, to find out what it was all about. It is spread over four sites, the Mies Van Der Rohr designed Neue National Gallery, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Schinkel Pavilion, and Read on…
KW Institute for Contempoary Art, Neue National Gallery, Berlin
15 April - 15 June 2008
On entering the Centre for Recent Drawing's intimate space, I was pleasantly stunned by Mia Pearlman’s Eye - a giant swirl of cut and inked paper, lit from below, casting shadows, as it expanded onto the ceiling and walls. This work had Read on…
C4RD, London
10 April - 2 May 2008
With yesterdays snow still on the ground, in the freezing air I took a long walk around the back of the Bucharest’s ‘Peoples’ Palace’. The ‘Peoples’ Palace’ (which is almost as big as the Pentagon) was built Read on…
Muzeul National De Arta Contemporana, Bucharest
22 January - 16 August 2008
Like many other privileged middle class types, I occasionally browse through the Greenwich markets. I nibble on tasty snacks, try out classic vintage garments, allow myself to wallow in the gluttony of delicately crafted tasteful goods. When my Read on…
Greenwich Market, London
1 November 2007 - 20 December 2008
Apparently there is something strange happening in and around the Five Years Gallery: the A.A.S. are investigating a ‘zone of instability’ and are trying to avert a disaster. The peculiar happenings seem to be originating from East End Read on…
Five Years Gallery, London
29 September - 7 October 2007
‘Intervention’; Well it certainly isn’t interventional. Moving on from the misleading title, this exhibition was overflowing with experimental and imaginative works. Sarah Pucill’s film ‘Taking My Skin’ being by Read on…
Fieldgate Gallery
9 September 2007 to 10 October 2007
The drawing topologies exhibition is both an investigation into the different areas of drawing and a means to purchase work for the Stedelijk’s permanent collection. There are two reasons why I found this exhibition pertinent; the division of Read on…
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
6 June 2005 to 9 September 2007
On entering Damien Ortega’s darkened exhibition space I found nine elf projectors. The 16 mm films were of bricks lined up like dominos and pushed over causing the next brick stood up on end to fall over and knock over the next until they had Read on…
White Cube
7 July 2005 to 9 September 2007
As a person who walks around hardware shops in a state of ecstatic awe due to the huge array of objects (that have a purpose which is often meaningless to me), I was excited about seeing Stewart Goughs new sculpture The Mighty Quinn. It is Read on…
Gone Tomorrow Gallery, London
7 July 5 August
Da Gallery Invades and Occupies Ex-Iraqi Embassy www.dagallery.co.uk Da Gallery a group of artists who invade unused buildings and then turn it into a ‘gallery’ until the structures of control evict them. They are temporarily free from Read on…
Ex-Iraqi Embassy
7 July 2007 to 7 July 2007
Stuart Murray is a Spy Crap jobs I have had include:Putting the walnuts in walnut whips [I only did this for a day but the girl next to me fainted on the conveyor belt (imagine this bit)] Peeling potatoes by the sack Read on…
Cell Project Space
6 June 2007 to 7 July 2007
The swirls, lines and marks become sounds: fingers run over guitar strings producing an audible cord, the visual trace of the conductors baton as it beats out time. Adam de la Cour’s drawings are the depiction of choreographed movements in Read on…
C4RD
4 April 2007 to 4 April 2007