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The winter issue of frieze d/e is out now, with a focus on painting today. Featured artists include Kerstin Brätsch, Daniel Richter, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz; with an exclusive project by Christian Waldvogel and an essay by Amy Sillman.
Mint Condition: Kerstin Brätsch
“The artist who remains at least semi-free must make her entire practice a kaleidoscopic contradiction.” Martin Herbert explores the fluid collaborations and market subversions of Kerstin Brätsch and her mutating project KAYA.
Different Strokes: David Joselit and Susanne von Falkenhausen
On the occasion of Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age at the Museum Brandhorst (München), the exhibition’s co-curator, David Joselit, speaks with art historian Susanne von Falkenhausen about spectacle and social networks in painting post-1960.
Also featuring:
From maverick lives in German history to the pure soul music of Nina Simone, the painter Daniel Richter reveals his influences to Jörg Heiser; the artist duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz talk about “temporal drag” in conversation with writer Laura Guy; painter Amy Sillman explores the aesthetics of awkwardness in a new essay, “Shit Happens”; and writer Sadie Plant offers an extended take on Loretta Fahrenholz’s exhibition at the Kunsthalle Zürich.
Elsewhere in the issue:
Humane Trafficking: The writer and cartoonist Stefanie Sargnagel on how she became a “refugee-smuggling gratitude junkie,” helping people to cross the border from Hungary to Austria.
Power of Babel: On the occasion of their exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), artist collective Slavs and Tatars ask: what can a WWI-era Jihadist newspaper teach us about German Orientalism?
Through the Roof: frieze d/e contributing editor Christy Lange raises questions about rising rents for artists’ studios, in Berlin and elsewhere.
Underexposed: Ulf Erdmann Ziegler writes on the life and work of photographer Germaine Krull, currently on view at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau.
Reviews: Explore 14 of the most interesting shows from across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and elsewhere—including curated by_Vienna, Laure Prouvost at carlier gebauer (Berlin), Markus Selg at De Hallen Haarlem, Paulina Olowska at Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (Aachen, Germany), and Jamian Juliano-Villani at Tanya Leighton (Berlin).
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