Part of the beauty of the internet is that if you couldn’t be in Germany for last week’s Berlin Art Week, you can come to We Heart and see what you missed, and miss it you did, especially the abc Art Berlin Contemporary fair.
Nearly 130 galleries from 18 countries contributed to this collection, which, unlike previous years, was not directed by a theme, but instead welcomed whatever diverse offerings the galleries were minded to send over. Naturally, the results speak for themselves, so I’ll stop talking here and we might be able to fit another picture in.
Art Berlin Contemporary was not the only diverse collection of worldwide work featured from continental Europe recently, Amsterdam photography fair Unseen also wowing us last week.
Kati Heck, Multikulti Sause, 2011.
230 x 305 cm, oil on canvas, wooden cup holders, glass, beer, wine.
Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp.
Installation view from Radical Localism:
Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo’s Mexicali Rose,
Artists Space, 2012.
Photographer: Daniel Pérez
Closed for Prayers
Neon, Metal, Kabel, 2006
VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2012
Courtesy Galerie Neu
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
Construction (Marzahn), 2009
Silver Gelatine Print
101,5 x 128,3 cm
All images courtesy: the artists, RaebervonStenglin, Zürich
Theaster Gates
12 Ballads for the Huguenot House,
2012
installation view: dOCUMENTA 13,
Kassel, DE
courtesy Kavi Gupta Chicago/Berlin
Installation view from Radical Localism:
Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo’s Mexicali Rose,
Artists Space, 2012.
Photographer: Daniel Pérez
Metahaven
*Transparent Camouflage*, 2011
Installation at Gwangju Design Biennale, Korea
Christoph Keller
Expedition-Bus and Shaman-Travel, 2002
VW Campingbus mit Faltdach – mit hochspiegelndem Blattaluminium belegt.,
2 Videobeamer
, Video: Shaman Travel ca. 20’ running time
,
2 DVD Abspielgeräte synchronisiert;
optional:
drei Campingtische,
Campingstühle mit jeweils einem Monitor, VHS Recorder – Videoarchiv
courtesy by the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin
VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2012
Diango Hernández
Projected Stripes, 2011
room installation aprox. 500 X 300 X 400 (High)
Wooden table and wooden drawer, printed cloth, slide projector and wooden bench
© the artist, photo Anne Pöhlmann, courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Dieter Meier
Behind Flowers (performed by Bice Curiger)
1976/2011
C-Print
123,5 x 123,5 cm , gerahmt
Editon von 5 + 2 AP
courtesy Grieder Contemporary
JURISDICTION, 2011
Wikileaks scarf
Design by Metahaven
Photo by Meinke Klein
Installation view from Radical Localism:
Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo’s Mexicali Rose,
Artists Space, 2012.
Photographer: Daniel Pérez
