Berlin Art Link produces documented studio visits, interviews, and exhibitions to highlight the best of the artworld in Berlin and abroad.
ON THE ROAD SERIES: BERLIN ART LINK STUDIO VISITS A Berlin Art Link Production Interview by Monica Salazar Filmed & Edited by Peter Cairns Sara Rahbar, a mixed media artist based in New York, hails originally from Tehran, Iran. In 1981, a 5 year-old Rahbar fled with her family for over seven days from Tehran to Turkey to Dubai and then finally to New York during the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution and in the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war. Her personal experience in and between these two o...
In 2011, Steven Stappleton, a British artist, joined forces with Saudi Arabian artists Ahmed Mater and Abdulnasser Gharem to create Edge of Arabia, a a multi-faceted platform for presenting contemporary Arab art to Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia. Having begun in the Al-Miftaha Arts Village in Abha, Saudia Arabia, this grassroots initiative quickly spread to become a powerful voice in the international art world. Edge of Arabia?s inaugural exhibition was hosted in 2008 at the SOAS Br...
On March 22, 2011, we sat down with Almagul Menlibayeva (presented by Priska C. Juschka Fine Art) during the 5th Annual Art Dubai fair. Menlibayeva is a Kazakhstan-born artist who lives and works in Kazakhstan and Berlin. She creates a poetic blend of video and performance in a unique setting that brings together topics of Islamic cultural tradition and contemporary art, creating a language of so-called “Romantic Punk Shamanism” to present her view of her surrounding world and cultural history...