Profiles

Richard Meyer’s new publication: What Was Contemporary Art?

The uniquely queer history of Matmos is a sprawling carnival with perverse interludes, bizarre objects and guest appearances

In this series, frieze d/e asks artists to discuss the logistical background to their works. Bettina Pousttchi explains why she travels around the world photographing clocks

Tracing the vexed routes of global fashion exchange

A ‘laboratory of mixed emotions’. The uncanny world of Meg Stuart’s dance pieces

Beyond techno. The many sides to Berlin’s PAN records

In this series, frieze d/e asks artists to discuss the technical and logistical background to their works

Techno romance: Pantha du Prince and The Bell Laboratory

Ulrich Seidl’s Paradies trilogy brings the moving image to a standstill

A visit to Jeanne Mammen’s studio and home in Berlin which has been turned into a museum

The monumental frequencies of Eleh

Taking part in Tino Sehgal’s These associations

In this new series, frieze d/e invites an artist to talk about their working process. Swiss artist Peter Regli gets the ball rolling.

Today the choice between ‘opacity’ and ‘transparency’ has become the subject of increasing critical engagement in the realms of both contemporary art and politics. Should art works reveal their cultural origins and references or should they hide them? Do political claims still depend upon making identities visible?

In his last collection of essays Philosophie de la Relation (Philosophy of the Relation, 2009), the late Martiniquan writer and poet Édouard Glissant presented his final statement on opacity. A response to the text by the critic and curator Ulrich Loock.

How Berlin’s Times Bar became a legend in no time at all

50 years of Fluxus in Wiesbaden: How collector Michael Berger turned the movement’s ‘anti-art’ philosophy into museums for toilets and tat

Measuring success in community design projects, from Dakar to Newfoundland

The new wave of social-realist storytelling in American cinema

The private photographs of Siegfried and Lili Kracauer

Remembering Chris Marker