Universalism Today
2019 marks the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus. On this occasion, universalist programmes of modernism are once again critically examined from a contemporary perspective – in design, architecture and art. Thus, do we encounter a radical rejection of universalist concepts or do we have to reckon with their return – albeit in a changed form? Read more (in German)…
Published in: Brand-New-Life, magazine for art criticism, on April 2, 2019.
The Brotherhood of the New Blockheads
A vast array of drawings, photographs, videos, restaged installations, and artifacts by the Brotherhood of the New Blockheads—a Russian performance collective active mainly in and around Saint Petersburg in the mid-1990s—is presented in this archival exhibition. From 1996 to 2002, the eclectic fraternity’s eight key figures staged more than one hundred performances, often combining mundane materials such as magazine covers and canned foods with playfully archaic and at times mythical language. Read more…
Published in: artforum.com, critics` picks on April 7, 2019.