Issue 23
Spring 2016

The spring issue of frieze d/e is out now with essays by Ed Atkins, Kirsty Bell and Hannah Black on the return of "The Abject" in art; plus, features on Thea Djordjadze, Yngve Holen and Jochen Lempert; and a look at Omer Fast’s film adaptation of Remainder by Tom McCarthy. D

Also featuring: Karen Archey encounters bodily and technological extremes in the work of Yngve Holen; Patrizia Dander discovers how biology adapts to art in the work of photographer Jochen Lempert; and Saim Demircan explores Veit Laurent Kurz’s topographies of fear.

From this issue

Bodily and technological extremes in the sculptures of Yngve Holen

BY Karen Archey | 31 MAR 16

Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland

BY Jörg Scheller | 30 MAR 16

Why has abjection gained renewed currency in art?

BY Kirsty Bell | 27 MAR 16

How biology adapts to art in the photographs of Jochen Lempert

BY Patrizia Dander | 24 MAR 16

Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

BY Hans-Jürgen Hafner | 23 MAR 16

Abjection has gained renewed currency as art looks to the body and states of digital and physical decay

BY Ed Atkins | 18 MAR 16

Political rhetoric in art schools, the refugee crisis and Germany's new far right

BY Jörg Heiser | 18 MAR 16

mumok, Vienna, Austria

BY Oona Lochner | 10 MAR 16

Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany

BY Lian Rangkuty | 10 MAR 16

Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany

BY Ana Teixeira Pinto | 10 MAR 16

Why is abjection making a comeback?

BY Hannah Black | 10 MAR 16

MAK Wien, Austria

BY Barbara Jenner | 10 MAR 16

Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, Germany

BY Kai Hoelzner | 10 MAR 16

The consumption of ecosystems and drug-altered states

BY Saim Demircan | 10 MAR 16

Choose a single object of special significance from your working or living environment

BY Simon Fujiwara | 10 MAR 16

The migrating forms of Thea Djordjadze

BY Matthew McLean | 10 MAR 16

Omer Fast's feature film adaption of Tom McCarthy's novel Remainder

BY Bert Rebhandl | 10 MAR 16

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

BY Noemi Smolik | 10 MAR 16

Bielefelder Kunstverein & Kunstverein Nuremberg, Bielefeld, Nürnberg, Germany

BY Thomas Bettridge | 10 MAR 16

The following chronicle was submitted, unsuccessfully, to an academic conference on the history and practice of criticism

BY H. P. Schneemann | 10 MAR 16

Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

BY Elodie Evers | 10 MAR 16

Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

BY Holger Kube Ventura | 10 MAR 16

The artist Julia Scher talks about her series of 'Surveillance Beds'

BY Noemi Smolik | 10 MAR 16

Simon Elson's new biography of the overlooked art connoisseur Max J. Friedländer

BY Jan Kedves | 10 MAR 16

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA

BY Travis Diehl | 10 MAR 16

freymond-guth Ltd. Fine Arts, Zürich, Switzerland

BY Aoife Rosenmeyer | 10 MAR 16

Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genf, Switzerland

BY Mark Prince | 10 MAR 16

Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria

BY Melanie Ohnemus | 10 MAR 16

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

BY Kito Nedo | 10 MAR 16