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14/02/2025

Launched in November 2024, Diriyah Art Futures (DAF) sets out to be a hub for New Media Arts. The center, located in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Diriyah, fosters collaborative creation between artists, scholars and technologists alike.

Since its launch, the exhibition ‘Art Must Be Artificial: Perspectives of AI in the Visual Arts’ has been on show at DAF, exploring the history of computer art from the 1960s to the present day. It features regional and international artists, including Lulwah Alhomoud, Daniel Rozin, Aaajiao, Daniah Al-Saleh, and Wang Yuyang. The exhibition closes tomorrow.

To read more about DAF and their upcoming programming, read the article:

Diriyah Art Futures (DAF) has opened its doors on November 26 in the Saudi-Arabian city of the same name.

14/02/2025

This weekend in Berlin, there are a number of must-see openings and events, including Melanie Jame Wolf’s performance ‘Ballads of Outlaw Feelings’ tonight at Sophiensæle exploring song as a vessel for tenderness with folk fragments and dark comedy, the openings of solo exhibitions by artists Matt Copson, Sung Tieu, Miloš Trakilović, Jessica Ekomane at KW Institute for Contemporary Art also tonight, and openings of Paul Czerlitzki’s ‘DISORDER’ and Aleana Egan’s ‘PAGES’ tomorrow night at Konrad Fischer Galerie.
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Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including KW, Galerie Michael Werner, NOME, and more

13/02/2025

Ryoji Ikeda’s exhibition at Eesti Rahva Muuseum / Estonian National Museum in Tartu channels the digital sublime through overwhelming data flows and towering datascapes. Two newly commissioned works are presented in dialogue with the artist’s monumental tryptich, ‘data-verse 1/2/3’ (2019–2020). The result is a portal of sorts between the immense, highly abstract realm of data and the visceral immediacy of visuals and sounds.

Read more in Adela Lovric’s review:

Adela Lovric reviews Ryoji Ikeda’s exhibition at Estonian National Museum in Tartu

13/02/2025

The 20th edition of Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival’s Forum Expanded section kicks off today and runs until February 23rd, presenting 24 works from 21 countries.

This year’s theme, ‘Methods of Translucence,’ encompasses films and installations that explore ongoing conflicts and colonialism, reflecting our present.

See our top picks:

Forum Expanded showcases contemporary topics for their 20th edition, running from February 13th to 23rd and presenting 24 works from 21 countries

11/02/2025

BERLIN ART LINK x STUDIO IIII X SOKÓŁ Vodka
Present NATALIA ESCOBAR

✨Save the Date✨ On Thursday, February 27th, we present a one-night event featuring video work ‘TRAVIESAS’ by acclaimed Colombian interdisciplinary artist Natalia Escobar at Studio IIII.

We welcome you to join us from 8pm for the exhibition and party, complete with a live DJ set by Natalia Escobar and expertly-crafted cocktails by SOKÓŁ Vodka.

RSVP at [email protected] to attend.

Thursday, February 27th, 8:00pm
Studio IIII, Potsdamer Str. 96, 10785 Berlin

11/02/2025

We had the pleasure of visiting Sharjah Biennial 16 this past week. See some of our highlights from the sprawling showcase of contemporary art, which occupies venues across the Emirate of Sharjah until June 15th, and stay tuned for our upcoming coverage.

Curated by Alia Sw****ka, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala and Zeynep Öz, the biennial features works by more than 190 participants, including over 200 new commissions. Under the tile ‘to carry,’ it reflects on what it means to carry change and its technological, societal, animistic or ritualistic possibilities.

Sharjah Art Foundation

10/02/2025

This week in Berlin there are a number of exciting openings and events, including group show ‘Are We There Yet?’ at NOME featuring work by artists including Paolo Cirio, Cian Dayrit, and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, solo exhibitions by artists Matt Copson, Sung Tieu, Miloš Trakilović, Jessica Ekomane at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, exhibition ‘Jörg Immendorff – Distanz zu sich selbst* Bilder und Skulpturen 1985 – 2007’ at Galerie Michael Werner, and Adeline Meilliez’s exhibition ‘Chants de Couleur’ at Galerie Under The Mango Tree.

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Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including KW, Galerie Michael Werner, NOME, and more

07/02/2025

‘Damage Done’, a production by Tobias Yves Zintel at Ballhaus Ost, is an invitation into the privacy of a living room. Following a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and its effects on family around her, the play mediates anger, disorientation, memory, and the construction of identity. Using private family video recordings as its starting point, ‘Damage Done’ challenges us to imagine alternative forms of communication where remembering and forgetting are negotiated in equal measure.

‘Damage Done’ premieres at Ballhaus Ost on February 21st. For more info and to buy tickets:

Welcome to a living room that turns into a smouldering scene of remembering and forgetting. Here, between a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's and her daughter, worlds collide: an interplay of anger, sadness, despair and disorientation. Tobias Yves Zintel (1975, Passau) studied conceptual art at...

07/02/2025

This weekend in Berlin, there are a number of must-see openings and events, including the opening of Monty Richthofen’s exhibition ‘SWALLOWED BULLETS’⁠ tonight at DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM exploring manipulations of the poem through painting and drawing, Nicole Heinzel’s exhibition ‘frgmntd lmnts / lmntl frgmnts’ opening also tonight at kajetan presenting ambiguous and fragmented elements of our natural world to explore how we decode reality, and performance ‘The Monuments – Chapter 13 – Fragments of Us’ by Jaša at Kühlhaus tomorrow night gesturing towards forgotten histories.

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Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including Sophiensæle, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, KVOST, and more

04/02/2025

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04/02/2025

As part of our feature topic Cycles, Mia Butter writes on Esvin Alarcón Lam’s exhibition ‘The Practical Guide to Gardening’ at Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

Butter discusses Lam’s exploration of bamboo as a means to tackle themes of identity, queerness and colonialism, in particular the colonial impetus of botany and the resilience in the possibility of regrowth.

Read the full review:

Mia Butter reviews Esvin Alarcón Lam’s exhibition ‘The Practical Guide to Gardening’ at Künstlerhaus Bethanien

04/02/2025

Every month we compile a list of exciting international openings and events in our Worldwide Exhibition Hitlist.

For February, openings we’ve selected include Salah Elmur’s exhibition ‘The Land of the Sun’ at Mariane Ibrahim in Mexico City, Laure Prouvost’s exhibition ‘We Felt A Star Dying’ at LAS Art Foundation in Berlin, exhibition ‘Leigh Bowery!’ at Tate Modern in London, Sharjah Biennial 16 at various venues across Sharjah including works by Arthur Jafa, Rajni Perera, Aziz Hazara, and Aluaiy Kaumakan, Shu Lea Cheang’s exhibition ‘KI$$ KI$$’ at Haus der Kunst in Munich, and Billie Zangewa’s exhibition ‘Breeding Ground: the care we give becomes our breeding ground for life’ at Norval Foundation in Cape Town.

See our full list of international openings:

International exhibition openings in February at Sharjah Biennial, David Zwirner Los Angeles, Mariane Ibrahim in Mexico City, Norval Foundation and more

03/02/2025

“What do you do with all this data? It’s similar to when we think about junk: do you dump it, or recycle it or burn it? There is a certain line of thinking that it’s still useful in some way, so I applied that same thinking to digital data: that there could be compost.”

As part of our feature topic ‘Cycles’, William Kherbek interviews ground-breaking Taiwanese artist Shu Lea Cheang in relation to her exhibition ‘KI$$ KI$$’ opening February 14th at Haus der Kunst. They discussed dumping waste, cyborg theory, and data surveillance.

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William Kherbek interview groundbreaking Taiwanese artist Shu Lea Cheang ahead of her solo exhibition opening at Haus der Kunst Munich

03/02/2025

This week in Berlin there are a number of exciting openings and events, including the opening of exhibition ‘SWALLOWED BULLETS’ by Monty Richthofen at DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, tour of Rineke Dijkstra’s exhibition ‘Still — Moving. Portraits 1992 – 2024’ at Berlinische Galerie with PD Dr. Elisabeth Fritz (German Forum for Art History, Paris) and Sophie Angelov (Curatorial Assistant), Nicole Heinzel’s exhibition ‘frgmntd lmnts / lmntl frgmnts’ at kajetan, performance ‘daniel’s destruction’ by Unbestimmte Bewegung at Sophiensæle, and Thomas Bayrle’s exhibition ‘Faule Stellen’ at neugerriemschneider.

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Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including Sophiensæle, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, KVOST, and more

31/01/2025

This weekend in Berlin, there are a number of must-see openings and events, including the opening of Silvina Der Meguerditchian’s exhibition ‘Those who take care of us’ tonight at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien addressing themes of memory, identity, migration, and language, performance ‘Synthesis 2’ by ZULI, Hulubalang, and Brandon Tay as part of transmediale 2025 & CTM festival tomorrow evening at HKW, and program ‘Dance makes Berlin – An event by and for dance’ taking place tomorrow afternoon at Akademie der Künste considering the impact and potential of dance in Berlin and beyond.
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Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including Nordic Embassies, transmediale, C/O Berlin, Into The Open, and more

28/01/2025

The group show ‘Echt?! – Young 3-Dimensional Art from Norway,’ hosted by the Nordic Embassies in Berlin, presents works from the contemporary art scene in Norway.

Opening on January 30th, artists Andrea Scholze, Einar Grinde, Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard, Zayne Armstrong and Lin Wang show work interested in questioning authenticity, materiality and perception, from Grinde’s faded grandeur deflating horse sculpture ‘A Borrowed Horse One Must Soon Dismount,’ to installation ‘The Grind’ by Aasgaard and Armstrong commenting on neoliberal work practices.

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Announcing the group show ‘Echt?! – Young 3-Dimensional Art from Norway,’ hosted by the Nordic Embassies in Berlin

28/01/2025

“The quiet radiance found within Dijkstra’s oeuvre pushes us to consider the frictions within ourselves, ones which, albeit difficult to reconcile, are what make us human.”

Photographer Rineke Dijkstra’s major retrospective ‘Still — Moving: Portraits 1992 – 2024’ is on show at Berlinische Galerie, presenting over 80 works of photo and film. In her review, Oliva Noss discusses Dijkstra’s slight in depicting transitions; from youth to adulthood, from one career to another or from self-inhibition to self-possession.

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Olivia Noss reviews the retrospective of photographer Rineke Dijkstra at Berlinische Galerie

27/01/2025

This week in Berlin there are a number of exciting openings and events, including the launch of transmediale 2025 ‘(near) near but — far’ continuing throughout the week at various venues across the city including HKW and Silent Green, exhibitions by artists Sam Youkilis and Silvia Rosi opening at C/O Berlin as well as an exhibition of contemporary African photography ‘World in Common’, festival Into the Open 2025 opening at Kühlhaus Berlin, Silvina Der Meguerditchian’s exhibition ‘Those who take care of us’ at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, exhibition ‘Echt?! – Young 3-Dimensional Art from Norway’ at Nordic Embassies including work by Einar Grinde and Lin Wang, and exhibition ‘NACHTS’ by Mischa Fanghaenel at Fotografiska Berlin.

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Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including Nordic Embassies, transmediale, C/O Berlin, Into The Open, and more