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May 30, 2014

South likes: 8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin

Taking an utterly different direction than the one attempted two years ago by Artur Żmijewski, the 8th edition of the Berlin Biennale, curated by Juan A. Gaitán, seems to resort to a much more solid curatorial practice in order to question the cultural development of the city. Spread over three very different venues, the 8th Berlin Biennale proposes narratives and perspectives that pursue a political discourse and at the same time set in motion a dialogue with the identity of the city, especially with its cultural establishment. read more.

May 28, 2014

South likes: Cildo Meireles at Hangar Bicocca, Milan

Considered among the pioneers of conceptual art, the sensual and lyric installations of Cildo Meireles address dramatic themes such as colonialism, globalisation, and the repression of human rights. The exhibition at Hangar Bicocca goes through the production of the Brazilian artist summarising his delicate sensitivity in twelve works, which span from minuscule dimensions to large scale installations. read more.

May 26, 2014

South likes: Pietro Bonfanti at Spazio Polaresco, Bergamo

It is the voice of Mussolini the one speaking from the balcony of the external courtyard of the Polaresco, an example rationalist architecture built during the fascist era. A montage from fragments of speeches by the Italian dictator has been realised by Pietro Bonfanti, to reinterpret the space and above all a discourse and a rhetoric that sound unsettlingly familiar in current times and historical circumstances. read more.

May 24, 2014

South likes: Il paesaggio mi illude at O’, Milan

The exhibition on display at O' is the result of a collaboration between Alessandro Roma, visual artist, and Nicola Ratti, experimental musician. The show is the conclusive phase of a project started by the latter, together with Mark Templeton, and eventually released as an album named Resophonic.  read more.

May 23, 2014

South likes: Fitzcarraldo at Yautepec, Mexico City

The hardcore punk band Fitzcarraldo, composed of Andrew Birk, Nico Colón, and Yann Gerstberger, disbanded in 2001 during a tour in South America, after discussing the book Empire by Toni Negri and Michael Hardt. With a straight edge political vision, the lyrical content of their songs dealt with the hegemony of Western culture in the Third World, issues of inequality and colonialism. read more.

May 21, 2014

South likes: A Thousand Doors at Gennadius Library, Athens

The result of the first major collaboration between NEON Organization and the Whitechapel Gallery is presented in the neo-classical venue of Gennadius Library and its garden. With the title A Thousand Doors, which is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' short story The Library of Babel, the exhibition invites the audience to explore inside and outside the library spaces over thirty international and Greek artists.  read more.

May 19, 2014

South likes: Petrit Halilaj at Chert, Berlin

In the work of Petrit Halilaj, intimate narrations of childhood, family and emotions meet with the collective history of war, exodus and work that relate to Kosovo, the artist's country of origin. Images of the bird archive from the former Natural History Museum of Kosovo have been reworked in a series of drawings by the artist, who took care to adorn the animals with beautiful exotic masks. read more.

May 17, 2014

South likes: Danai Anesiadou at Buenos Tiempos Int., online

“We differ from a normative gay and lesbian agenda because we reject assimilationist politics that heterosexualize fags and dykes and queens etc. We want to be explicit in the declaration of our faggotry.” Thus explains Alberto García del Castillo, chief curator of the newly founded online platform Buenos Tiempos International. Describing itself as an online exhibition space for visual art, Buenos Tiempos, Int. engages socially and politically with queerness, difference and otherness through strategies such as the “exercise of wave-blowing-blow-jobbing”. read more.

May 16, 2014

South likes: Markus Proschek at Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg

In the spaces of the Kabinett of Salzburger Kunstverein Markus Proschek creates an elegant installation, addressing archaeology, its methodologies and its scopes, especially with regard to how we represent our mysterious origins. The title The Kurgan-Complex, is a reference to the Kurgan hypothesis, a theory about early Indo-European origins first proposed in the 1950s as a pioneering interdisciplinary synthesis of archaeology and linguistics. read more.

May 14, 2014

South likes: Céline Condorelli at Chisenhale, London

For her commission at Chisenhale, Céline Condorelli keeps the clean, industrial setting of the gallery seemingly intact; yet, the gallery door is gone and a window is revealed. Behind a large, semi-transparent golden curtain—a recurring form in Condorelli' s work—a peculiar environment is set up, which brings in mind a research space. read more.

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