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Mitch Speed

Mitch Speed is a writer based in Berlin, Germany.

Featuring more than 50 years of work, the artist’s survey at Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, builds on his idiosyncratic system of shapes and symbols

BY Mitch Speed | 14 DEC 22

A flaws-and-all reappraisal of the late New York art critic

BY Mitch Speed | 01 DEC 22

Mitch Speed picks the best gallery shows to see in the German capital

BY Mitch Speed | 16 SEP 22

At Tanya Leighton, Berlin, the artist’s labour-intensive portraits suggest an art historical fever dream

BY Mitch Speed | 24 AUG 22

Part memoir, part literary portrait, the author’s new book on Berlin goes beyond familiar narratives of the German capital

BY Mitch Speed | 10 MAR 22

At Galeria Plan B, the artist aims to symbolically transform visitors into a state of extraordinary openness

BY Mitch Speed | 04 FEB 22

At Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, the two artists find common ground in sculptures, drawings, paintings and prints that evoke the unknown

BY Mitch Speed | 07 OCT 21

The artist’s installation at Barbara Wien, Berlin, leaves things pleasingly open to interpretation

BY Mitch Speed | 22 MAY 20

In the time of COVID-19, the artist's pulmonary pangs at ChertLüdde, Berlin, feel uncomfortably prescient

BY Mitch Speed | 13 MAY 20

Like Vivian Maier’s photography, Christina Hesselholdt’s novel embraces digression and relishes humanity in its multiplicity

BY Mitch Speed | 14 AUG 19

The artist’s montages, at David Lewis, New York, are elegant but cryptic reflections on belonging and complicity

BY Mitch Speed | 24 JUL 19

With over 100 works, ‘Straying from the Line’ brings together superb work under the rubric of anti-essentialism

BY Mitch Speed | 18 JUN 19

Amy Fung’s new essay collection is an infuriated breakup letter to the art world

BY Mitch Speed | 31 MAY 19

The 16th edition of the festival peddles a political cinematography of hope, honesty and humility

BY Mitch Speed | 09 JAN 19

A retrospective at S.M.A.K., Ghent, explores the origins of the artist’s reduced visual language

BY Mitch Speed | 07 DEC 18

An exhibition at PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, timed to coincide with the Yalta European Strategy conference, reminds of the corruptibility of culture

BY Mitch Speed | 05 NOV 18

An exhibition across both Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi and Eden Eden, Berlin, shows how the artist leans into the history of painting

BY Mitch Speed | 19 OCT 18

Needling, absorptive works animate a biennial in the midst of murky socio-political circumstances

BY Mitch Speed | 25 AUG 18

Lucas Hirsch, Dusseldorf, Germany

BY Mitch Speed | 07 DEC 17

Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany

BY Mitch Speed | 07 NOV 17