Review of Carsten Höller’s SOMA at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof
Cover feature, commissioned for The Guardian’s G2 supplement, 21 December 2010
A full report on attacks on gallery-goers in Istanbul’s gallery district (Frieze, 2010)
At Istanbul’s Galeri Non, Extrastruggle – a collective of one – stages a chess game between political figures. In the gallery entrance is a polyester sculpture of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, painted as a fallen angel, standing on his head and resting on a gilded wing. The other statues are each one colour. Taken together, they spell out the Palestinian flag. In the rear corner of the gallery is a red ‘Turkish Tote’, an unstable stack of Atatürk heads poised on a white star. The other half of the Turkish flag, the white crescent, rests like a machete in the skull of a figure clad in a burka, covered with eyes.
Review (The Stage, 2017)
Review of Olafur Eliasson’s City: Inside Out at the Martin-Gropius Bau and locations around Berlin (Exberliner, 2010)
Review of Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective at C/O BERLIN (Exberliner, 2010)
Review (The Stage, 2016)
Review of Angela Bulloch’s Vattenfall Prize Exhibition. Frieze (2011)
“Behind the title of Angela Bulloch’s exhibition ‘Information, Manifesto, Rules and Other Leaks...’ is a framing principle: ‘Leaks’ are no longer the backroom business of journalists and informants, but an emerging model of the world. For Bulloch, who defines this exhibition as a continuation of her ‘Rules Series’, begun in 1992, the appeal of leaks is as a system of anti-rules – portals to a pulsing mass of ‘true information’ beyond the posited (sanctioned) information distributed as rules.”
Review of Carsten Höller’s SOMA at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof
Cover feature, commissioned for The Guardian’s G2 supplement, 21 December 2010
A full report on attacks on gallery-goers in Istanbul’s gallery district (Frieze, 2010)
At Istanbul’s Galeri Non, Extrastruggle – a collective of one – stages a chess game between political figures. In the gallery entrance is a polyester sculpture of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, painted as a fallen angel, standing on his head and resting on a gilded wing. The other statues are each one colour. Taken together, they spell out the Palestinian flag. In the rear corner of the gallery is a red ‘Turkish Tote’, an unstable stack of Atatürk heads poised on a white star. The other half of the Turkish flag, the white crescent, rests like a machete in the skull of a figure clad in a burka, covered with eyes.
Review (The Stage, 2017)
Review of Olafur Eliasson’s City: Inside Out at the Martin-Gropius Bau and locations around Berlin (Exberliner, 2010)
Review of Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective at C/O BERLIN (Exberliner, 2010)
Review (The Stage, 2016)
Review of Angela Bulloch’s Vattenfall Prize Exhibition. Frieze (2011)
“Behind the title of Angela Bulloch’s exhibition ‘Information, Manifesto, Rules and Other Leaks...’ is a framing principle: ‘Leaks’ are no longer the backroom business of journalists and informants, but an emerging model of the world. For Bulloch, who defines this exhibition as a continuation of her ‘Rules Series’, begun in 1992, the appeal of leaks is as a system of anti-rules – portals to a pulsing mass of ‘true information’ beyond the posited (sanctioned) information distributed as rules.”