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Oct 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Garrett Bradley |Simon Denny |Moritz Scheper |Diedrich Diederichsen
BELOW IS A TRANSCRIBED AND EDITED CONVERSATION BETWEEN GARRETT BRADLEY AND “A,” WHO IDENTIFIES AS A “SHAPER” AND HAS REQUESTED FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS INTERVIEW TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS. THIS CONVERSATION WAS HELD BY PHONE ON AUGUST 18, 2024. GARRETT BRADLEY: Thanks very much for speaking with me. A: No problem. GB: You’ve asked that we withhold your name for privacy. But for our readers, do you mind if I clarify what brought us together? A: Yes, of course. GB: Great.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Pablo Larios |Simon Denny |Moritz Scheper |Diedrich Diederichsen
A MOVING TRUCK pulled up to my apartment building the other day. When it drove off a few hours later, someone had left behind a hulking old armoire. It was the kind of dusty heritage object that for our parents’ or grandparents’ generations had signified a great deal—respectability, investment, social mobility. But homes fall apart, tastes change, parents die, and people move away. Tarik Kiswanson employs simple-seeming objects to conjure the sense of rootlessness that pervades our age.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Lillian Davies |Simon Denny |Moritz Scheper |Diedrich Diederichsen
On Matthew Barney and the military-industrial-sports complexTHREE DECADES AGO, the Fondation Cartier in Paris presented Cremaster 4, 1994, the first film in Matthew Barney’s epic “Cremaster” quintet. At the opening of Barney’s exhibition “SECONDARY” there this past June, the foundation’s director, Chris Dercon, proclaimed: “This project has nothing to do with the anniversary of the Allies’ Normandy landings.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Lucy R Lippard |Simon Denny |Moritz Scheper |Diedrich Diederichsen
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Diedrich Diederichsen
IF SOMEONE ASKS WHAT the opposite of a monument looks like, show them an artwork by Ana Jotta. You might say that the opposite of a monument is a document—that is, an artifact or piece of evidence. But a monument must be fabricated, and so documentary objects, too, don’t simply occur: They must be found or at least recognized as such.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Simon Denny |Moritz Scheper |Diedrich Diederichsen |Manuel Borja-Villel
THERE ARE MANY REASONS to celebrate the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, curator Adriano Pedrosa’s “Stranieri Ovunque”(Foreigners Everywhere): It is the first edition organized by a curator from South America; it celebrates artists that have been largely marginalized by the Biennale and other centers of contemporary art, including folk, outsider, and Indigenous artists; it highlights handicraft and especially textiles, which are deserving of greater critical attention; and its message of inclusivity...
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
der-theaterverlag.de | Diedrich Diederichsen
Florentina Holzinger inszeniert am Mecklenburgischen Staatstheater erstmals eine Oper – Paul Hindemiths «Sancta Susanna» – und findet zu einem Finale, auf das sich alle einigen können Ein Beitrag von Diedrich Diederichsen Kurz vor dem Ende werden zwei Darstellerinnen – eine ist die Regisseurin selbst – an Metallhaken an ihrem Rücken emporgehievt. Man hat zuvor auf einem Screen am Bühnenrand gesehen, wie ihnen diese Metallteile in die Rückenhaut eingepflanzt wurden.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Eugenio Viola |Simon Denny |Moritz Scheper |Diedrich Diederichsen
Tania Candiani’s Desminar (Demining), 2024DESMINAR (DEMINING), 2024, is an immersive artwork by Mexican artist Tania Candiani, curated by Gabriela Rangel. It directly reacts to its site, Bogotá’s Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria. This “space of art and memory,” opened by Doris Salcedo in 2018, is a “counter-monument” to decades of armed conflict in Colombia.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
zeit.de | Alexander Cammann |Matthias Dell |Diedrich Diederichsen |Georg Diez |Judith Liere |Tobi Müller | +2 more
René Pollesch, der Dramatiker, Regisseur und zuletzt auch Intendant der Volksbühne Berlin, ist am 26. Februar in Berlin gestorben, er wurde 61 Jahre alt. Seit den Neunzigerjahren hat Pollesch das deutschsprachige Theater geprägt wie sonst kaum jemand. Hier sind, in chronologischer Reihenfolge, Erinnerungen an unvergessliche Pollesch-Inszenierungen.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
freitag.de | Diedrich Diederichsen
Ausstellung Im Minsk in Potsdam kann man begutachten, wie Louis Armstrong 1965 die DDR besuchte und sich im Kalten Krieg politisch bedeckt hielt Exklusiv für Abonnent:innen | Ausgabe 43/2023 Fotos: Helmut Raddatz/DDR Fotoerbe (links), Steven Bates/Romare Bearden Foundation/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023 Louis Armstrong möchte nicht streiten.
