Articles of ‘KW Institute for Contemporary Art’

KW Institute for Contemporary Art - Berlin, Germany
Curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen
“I feel a pleasure of never contained sweep over me,
now that I know place is never”1
- Laurie Sheck
By Lydia Magyar
Willem de Rooij’s “Whiteout,” curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen, draws focus to Ilulissat, a village in Greenland on Disko Bay. The exhibition presents [...]

KW Institute for Contemporary Art - Berlin, Germany
Curated by Anna Gritz
By Lydia Magyar
Confounding re-contextualizations and hybridizations are now expected from artist Lucy Skaer. In 2000, as a transient public intervention, Skaer left a scorpion and a diamond together on an Amsterdam sidewalk. In 2003, Skaer hid moth pupae and butterfly pupae in the [...]