Bettina Pousttchi (b. 1971) has recently received due attention for her large-scale, site-specific photographic work Echo (2009/10). The project involved covering all four elevations of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin with a digitally manipulated collage of archival images of the glass skin and concrete pilasters of the former Palace of the Republic. The photographic series Sculpture Project Echo (2009) is a portrayal of this black-and-white photo installation’s powerful persistence among the iconic buildings that surrounded it.

In her ongoing World Time series (2008–), from which this exhibition takes its na...

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Kunsthalle Basel presents The Form of Practical Memory, the first major individual exhibition by the American artist Zachary Formwalt

The exhibition"s title borrows from one of Walter Benjamin"s passages: "Sammeln ist eine Form des praktischen Erinnerns" ("Collecting is a form of practical memory"). Formwalt"s work looks at the possibility of giving form to immaterial ideas and materializing processes whose internal workings usually remain obscure while their results can be seen and felt by everyone. How historical memory functions and fails, how the economy works and collapses, and how the...

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