Michal B. Ron is an art theoretician and historian. She has completed a PhD dissertation at the Free University in Berlin, on the question of time in the work of Marcel Broodthaers, as related to historical thinking, to animals, and to children.
Michal B. Ron
Likeconomy Piece
Despite the nausea she felt at the thought of the war economy, Michal B. Ron writes from this perspective about the summer exhibitions in Berlin. The exhibitions by Yoko Ono and Lygia Clark offered opposite ways of participating in art, one of which is no different from marking a 'like.' So, can marking a like end a war? Or does the like actually feed off it?
Collective Forgetting: Permission to Forget
The editorial tracks the dual axis on which the issue rests: remembrance and forgetting. When erasure will never be complete, and forgiveness is not possible, what can collective forgetting offer?
Wor(l)ds: An Eclipse
Reading “Art and its Worlds” sent Michal B. Ron on a journey in time and space between anarchist art collectives, various languages, multidirectional cartographies, and strategies of creating publics for art.
What to do for the Sake of Love?
Michal B. Ron follows an archival treasure of Hannah Bruckmüller's. She starts with Marcel Broodthaers’ contribution to James Lee Byars’s World Question Center, where a question about love is calling from a distance of time, and creates a new questionnaire that asks for responses: what do you do for the sake of love?
Dot dot dot…: Some Thoughts Following Yayoi Kusama’s Retrospective at Gropius Bau, Berlin
Before it arrived to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Yayoi Kusama's retrospective was shown at Gropius Bau in Berlin. Michal B. Ron visited the Berlin show and shares her thoughts on reflection, reconstruction, art history, and letters against apartheid.
M(B)R VSTS #2: Noa Ginzburg With Hannah Bruckmüller
After their collaborative project “Cat Chat,” discussing the interview Marcel Broodthaers conducted with a cat, Michal B. Ron initiates an online studio visit at Noa Ginzburg’s studio, with Hannah Bruckmüller. They talk about the idea of Radical Coziness, domesticity, extra ocular objects, and jumping in public places.
M(B)R Visiting #1: Merav Maroody
The first installment of a new column on studio visits by Michal B. Ron, who lives in Berlin. As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, the column also develops and acquires new forms. At the center of each encounter is a discussion of works by different artists and their thoughts about the current conditions of art and life.
Performance Post Lockdown: Tino Sehgal et al in Down to Earth at Gropius Bau
In an era of social distancing, an exhibition about ecology turns into a meditation on human connections. Michal B. Ron reviews the recent “Down to Earth” exhibition at Gropius Bau.
The Book as Agora
How should art institutions respond to the current political climate? Michal B. Ron reviews Paper Monument’s recent book, in which various art professionals offer their propositions to six perceptive questions.
Other than Whom?
“There is no curatorial passivism, any more than there is a passivist war.” Michal B. Ron reviews Maura Reilly’s book Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating and adds a note about the heroless politeness of the recent Berlin Biennial.