Mitchell Anderson

May 8, 2024 | artforum.com | Mitchell Anderson |WEFTBy Eve Hill-Agnus |Eve Hill-Agnus

Reclaiming corporeal sublimation in Wilawan Wiangthong’s performanceIT ALL BEGAN WITH A PINK EGG. The room was dark, with sheets of bubble wrap carpeting the floor. A woman dressed in a silvery-gray tunic held up the egg, examining its fragile shell with a sense of rapture before raising it against a snakeskin-patterned circle projected on the wall. Across the space, two undecipherable shapes wrapped in red plastic were rolling and churning like human-size egg sacs.

May 7, 2024 | artforum.com | Mitchell Anderson |WEFTBy Eve Hill-Agnus |Eve Hill-Agnus |Richard R. Speer

Gallery Weekend Berlin celebrates its twentieth anniversary“YES, BITCH! BERLIN‘S GOT IT!” a local curator exclaimed midway through the weeklong festivities of Gallery Weekend Berlin, expressing a view that seemed rare and unanimous: Excellent shows were opening everywhere.

Sep 27, 2023 | frieze.com | Mitchell Anderson

Widely regarded as nonsense by the scientific community, dowsing – divining the location of water and minerals in the earth with a stick – is, like astrology and the tarot, nonetheless still commonly practiced. In titling an exhibition after this type of occultism, curator Nick Irvin suggests a portrait of contemporary culture through the fringe beliefs of society at large.

Jul 19, 2023 | frieze.com | Mitchell Anderson

In Doug Aitken’s five-channel video installation Howl (all works 2023), oil derricks spot the rolling, sun-bleached hills of a desolate valley in central California while plywood boards shutter local stores. Interspersed within these depictions of wide-open spaces, residents provide soundbites on the circumstances of living in this dying town. They tell of their hopes for the area, its oil-boom history, their lives and the wider future. ‘I want to travel the world.

Jun 20, 2023 | flash---art.com | Mitchell Anderson

This year it seemed that everyone arrived in Zurich during the days before Art Basel, although calling the event “Zurich Art Weekend,” when shows start opening on Tuesday, is getting a bit ridiculous (especially for the liver).