Gallery Weekend Berlin – The Art Podcast

Bizet's Carmen is a character who stays with you. Why Wu Tsang (1982, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA) couldn't let go of Carmen, and where following this story in all its facets might lead, are questions she explores with Enuma Okoro in Episode 18 of Gallery Weekend Berlin – The Art Podcast.

Tsang works across film, photography, performance and installation, using art as a tool to seduce the viewer into unfamiliar territory. A novel like Moby Dick can fold into something else entirely, as a postcolonial reading traces the novel's ties to slavery, empire and early capitalism. Or a collaboration rooted in a...

Der Pinselstrich gilt als Signatur des Malers, als dessen Handschrift. Doch was passiert, wenn sich genau diese Vorstellung immer wieder infrage stellen lässt? In Episode 17 des Gallery Weekend The Art Podcast geht die Künstlerin Kerstin Brätsch (*1979 in Hamburg, Deutschland) gemeinsam mit Silke Hohmann dieser faszinierenden Frage nach. Brätsch hat den Begriff der Malerei grundlegend erweitert und fragt, was Malerei jenseits des Bildträgers leisten kann. Unterschiedlichste Materialien, Techniken und handwerkliche Verfahren treten miteinander in Beziehung, während die Arbeiten in ständiger Bewegung bleiben. Brätsch versteht Malerei als eine Art Metabolismus, der sich im Gegenüber mit den Betrachtenden entfaltet und sich...

In this episode, Enuma Okoro speaks with Swedish artist Andreas Eriksson about a practice rooted in perception, memory, materiality, and the natural world. Moving between painting, sculpture, photography, prints, textiles, and drawing, Eriksson describes how visual sensations, walks through the landscape, and memories find their way into the studio. From an early childhood memory of becoming snow-blind to the bronze casts of birds that collided with his studio windows, the conversation traces how formative experiences of perception, vulnerability, and loss inform his fascination with illusion, reflection, and the shifting boundary between what we see, feel, and know.

Eriksson’s work will...

In episode 15, writer and curator Enuma Okoro speaks with South African artist Berni Searle (b. 1964, Cape Town, South Africa, where she lives and works) about the layered languages of the body, memory, and perception. Working across photography, video, and sculpture, Searle explores how narratives are constructed and sustained through history, identity, and place, often against the backdrop of colonialism, apartheid, and their afterlives.

“I don’t think art alone can change the world,” she says, “but it has a role to play.” Using her own body as a point of departure, she develops works that move between presence and...