frieze d/e issue 18 out now
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Featuring Gregor Schneider, Beatriz Colomina, and a reconsideration of Postmodern architecture, issue 18 of frieze d/e explores the intersection of art and the built environment.
Now or Never
“Schneider bought the house where Joseph Goebbels was born and made it a subject of his art.” Jörg Heiser returns to Rheydt, the Rhineland town of his own birth and home to the artist Gregor Schneider, who has consistently tested architectural limits and the ethical boundaries of artistic freedom.
X-Ray Architecture
“Health was to Modernism what religion was to Gothic architecture.” Architecture historian Beatriz Colomina talks to us about panicky design, sick buildings and the age of the “contemporary recluse.”
Also featuring:
Oliver Elser traces the unpopularity of Postmodern architecture in Germany, asking why it now seems to be experiencing a revival; Elvia Wilk surveys the playful interventions of Viennese architecture group Haus-Rucker-Co (1963–93), and their prescient warnings of climate disaster; and Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith tracks the restless sculptures of Nairy Baghramian, recently on show at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.
Elsewhere in the issue:
Logistics: Artist group !Mediengruppe Bitnik explain their project at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, where they programmed software to go on a darknet shopping spree.
Books: We interview famed German singer and songwriter Jochen Distelmeyer, following the publication of his first novel Otis (2015).
Photography: Three professional photographers talk about what it means to make images of art.
Das Ding: German-born production designer Ken Adam, famous for his Bond film sets of the 1960s and ’70s, shares an object of special significance: his Rolls Royce.
Reviews: 19 exhibition reviews from across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and elsewhere—including German Pop at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main, KP Brehmer at Raven Row, London, and The Anthropocene Project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
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