frieze d/e issue 20 out now
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The summer issue of frieze d/e is out now, with features on Alexandra Bachzetsis, Michael Beutler, and the controversial history of public art in former West Germany, plus reviews of the 56th Venice Biennale.
Can You Feel it? Alexandra Bachzetsis
New York-based writer Laura McLean-Ferris discovers Dionysian forces and socio-economic pressures in the dance performances of Swiss artist Alexandra Bachzetsis.
Ex Machina: Michael Beutler
Coinciding with his large-scale installation Moby Dick at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof, contributing editor Kirsty Bell explores the sculptural machines of Michael Beutler, which offer social, analogue alternatives to an increasingly automated economy.
Still Standing? Public Art in Germany
With a wave of recent exhibitions on the subject, associate editor Dominikus Müller charts the fraught history of public art in Germany, from counter-culture to café culture; a past encapsulated by 13.4.1981 (1987), Olaf Metzel’s towering sculpture of tangled crowd barriers, conceived in the spirit of public protest and now installed on private land to identify Berlin’s creative quarter.
Also featuring:
Noemi Smolik visits the sculptor Inge Mahn, a former student of Joseph Beuys, in her countryside home; artist Jimmy Robert talks to Jan Kedves about paper and performance; and Pablo Larios looks at the role of self-presentation in recent art and writing.
Elsewhere in the issue:
Venice Biennale: Dominikus Müller writes about All the World’s Futures, the main show curated by Okwui Enwezor; and Paul Teasdale and Pablo Larios explore the German, Austrian and Swiss Pavilions.
Logistics: Artist and geographer Trevor Paglen explains the competition that he organized as part of his show at Frankfurter Kunstverein, asking the public to submit photographs showing “landscapes of surveillance.”
Das Ding: Adrian Piper, Berlin-based artist and winner of the 56th Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion award, writes about her drafting table: “It’s so beautiful I can’t bear to use it. I just like to look at it.”
Reviews: Read about 15 of the most interesting shows from across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and elsewhere—including a round-up of Gallery Weekend Berlin, Kerstin von Gabain at Gabriele Senn in Vienna, Hassan Khan at Museum für Moderner Kunst Frankfurt, and Aleana Egan at Konrad Fischer Galerie Berlin.
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