Gallery: KÖNIG Galerie Alexandrinenstrasse 118-121, Berlin, Germany Artists:
Arghavan Khosravi, Andreas Schulze, Amelie von Wulffen, Darren Bader, Dickon Drury, Disko Girls (Anonymous), Diane Kotila, Edward Dwurnik, Ferdinand Uptmoor, Helen Marten, Judith Kaminski, Johannes Wohnseifer, Marion Fink, Muntean/Rosenblum, Nadira Husain, Paul P., Stefan Müller
In 2017, for the catalog of the Gordon Robichaux gallery’s first exhibition, ‘Ken Tisa: Objects/Time/Offerings,’ I interviewed Tisa, whose work encompasses collections of humble objects that embody wildly diverse cultural traditions. Among the many anecdotes Tisa related, one in particular stood out: the story of a Black artist-designer-entrepreneur named Sara Penn and her Manhattan store, Knobkerry, where Tisa worked in the 1980s. Though P...
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In 2017, for the catalog of the Gordon Robichaux gallery’s first exhibition, ‘Ken Tisa: Objects/Time/Offerings,’ I interviewed Tisa, whose work encompasses collections of humble objects that embody wildly diverse cultural traditions. Among the many anecdotes Tisa related, one in particular stood out: the story of a Black artist-designer-entrepreneur named Sara Penn and her Manhattan store, Knobkerry, where Tisa worked in the 1980s. Though Penn’s history has largely fallen from sight, the store she ran was, in its in time, beloved and influential, one of the first establishments in the United States to sell ethnographic art, objects and clothing from around the world. Through Tisa and a collaboration with Gordon Robichaux, I had the great fortune to meet and interview Penn in 2017.
