Author Archives: thilohoffmann

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DO I HAVE TO SIGN FOR IT?Manhattan, 2011 Lawrence Weiner is an existing empirical fact. Here he stands, effortlessly seeming not to glimmer, amongst a pair of locked bicycles, a tree in a barrel, an encroaching vine, a length of wrought iron fence, and two slabs of bluestone. The porch light is on at midday.Continue reading “Lawrence Weiner”

URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD IN HER STUDIO2016, Brooklyn I have sometimes been asked why I make art. It is not a question I find easy to answer with any kind of clarity, but I will try to poke around some possibilities. Why Do I Make Art? Mostly, to survive. To ease my high anxiety, to numbContinue reading “Ursula von Rydingsvard”

MIT PASSWORT UND FENSTERZurich, 2017 Rehearsal without a password C:        May I allow myself to be discontinuous? I:          I am plunged into the continuous flux of the days. I want to stop it, to cut into it, to hold a keynote and then I finish with empty hands. C:        I’m an impulseContinue reading “Ilona Ruegg”

QUARTIERGeneva, 2017 John M Armleder has never ceased to welcome people, proposals, and gestures. Born into a family of hoteliers, he knows that hospitality is also a form of generosity. At the end of the 1960s, in the Fluxus wake, he federated friends to convert the basement of the Richemond hotel into an ephemeral performanceContinue reading “John M Armleder”

MALEREILe Locle, 2015 Das Porträt entstand in Le Locle, im Atelier von Adrian Schiess. Lange lebte und arbeitete der Maler zuvor in einem kleinen Haus in Mouans-Sartoux, umgeben von einem verwilderten Garten. Als ich Adrian dort am 27. Februar 2007 besuchte, blühten vor seinem Atelierfenster die Mimosen. Vor einigen Jahren verlegte er sein Atelier ausContinue reading “Adrian Schiess”

BLACK BOXManhattan, 2011 These worlds need to be observed closely to see and hear the activity within the small-scale, sculptural elements. This series of micro-installations reveals complex, miniature domains populated by tiny figures that “embody poetically-layered thought patterns.” Roughly the size of a cranium and often displayed at head height, each of these works isContinue reading “Tony Oursler”

MERMAID EATS ARTISTBrooklyn, 2019 If I’d wanted my work to be about me, I would have been an actor. Instead, I’ve always had this fantasy that I could have a dinner party without even showing up, that I’d make all the food and hang up some paintings and everyone could just have a lovely timeContinue reading “Ellen Harvey”

HOT SPOTParis, 2015 Mimesis My daughter  wouldn’t hurt a spiderThat had nestedBetween her bicycle handlesFor two weeksShe waitedUntil it left of its own accordIf you tear down the web I saidIt will simply knowThis isn’t a place to call homeAnd you’d get to go bikingShe said that’s how othersBecame refugees ins’t it? Fady JoudahAlight, PortContinue reading “Mona Hatoum”

TISCHTENNISBALL, POLIERT, GELBBerlin, 2017 Der Klang ist sofort da, ein ganzes Match entsteht als imaginierter Sound, bis der Ball vom Schläger abprallt und die Platte nur noch streift und über den Boden hopst und irgendwann still liegen bleibt. Mit etwas Übung kann man am Klang bestimmen, ob der Ball noch spielbar ist. Man hört, wennContinue reading “Karin Sander”