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Agneszka Polska, Therapist for the Demon’s Brain. At Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) As you are probably all aware by now, a certain Bavarian car maker is sponsoring the BAW and the GWB, among many other good...
Christian Hain
Oct 22, 2018


Radioactive Nuts, Politics, Blue Chips and Planetariums. Still BAW'18
(Berlin.) If on the occasion of your visit to Berlinische Galerie’s Julien Charrière exhibition, which recently opened to honour the...
Christian Hain
Oct 6, 2018


Who says “a” must say “B” - That’s a Strong Position. Thou Art Fair, BAW’18
(Berlin.) Art Berlin still is not the fiac, or Frieze, or – ok, we’ll stop. It is what it is, the best art fair you can reasonably expect...
Christian Hain
Oct 1, 2018


BAW'18 - Berlin Art Week Returns
(Berlin.) Let’s start our tour of this year’s Berlin Art Week at NG...something - one of those Berlin Kunst-Verein-Gesellschaft thingies...
Christian Hain
Sep 27, 2018


Kindl&Schinkel, Art, Beer, and Crypto
(Berlin.) Schinkel Pavilion does more than just hosting press conferences for obscure plans to rebuild the Berlin Wall as a promotion for...
Christian Hain
Sep 19, 2018


Ilya Khrzhanovski Is Building a Wall, in Berlin. A Monument to the DAU?
(Berlin.) A lot of Berlin, and German, citizens actually wouldn’t mind to get that wall back. For a variety of reasons, cultural,...
Christian Hain
Sep 7, 2018


Visions of Exchange: Taking the Daimler to Tokyo
(Berlin.) “Sorry, we could not calculate driving directions from ‘Berlin’ to ‘Tokyo, Japan’”. Thank you, Google Maps, at least you tried....
Christian Hain
Aug 28, 2018


"We Need Another Museum in Potsdam, but A SAP!" Gerhard Richter’s Abstraction
(Potsdam.) It’s hard being a billionaire. Oh, sure: in the beginning it’s all fun and smiles, but wait for the day when you already own a...
Christian Hain
Aug 17, 2018


Simply Not the Best: Berlin Biennale 2018
(Berlin.) KW Institute leaving home for a summer in the city doesn’t mean their space will stand empty this summer. On the contrary: It’s...
Christian Hain
Jun 14, 2018


Externalised Artistic Schizophrenia: Profiling Lynn Hershman Leeson at KW at The Shelf
(Berlin.) Berlin Biennale is almost upon us, and most of you will be preparing their summer vacation or counting the days to the World...
Christian Hain
Jun 8, 2018


The Apprentice Curator. A Meaty Show at Altes Museum
(Berlin.) Promoting their latest show, Flesh, Altes Museum – “Old Museum”, that’s the name indeed - does not exactly highlight the fact,...
Christian Hain
Jun 4, 2018


Big Fish Eat Little Fish – Artificial Fish Eats All. Philippe Parreno at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) There it is: The long anticipated, much announced, summer show of Philippe Parreno at Martin Gropius Bau. Outside, climate...
Christian Hain
May 31, 2018


Meese, Richter, TAL R. Art in the Hinterlands
(Stade.) Espoo (FIN), Holstebro (DEN), Stade (GER) - which one doesn’t belong? No, wait, let me rephrase that: Espoo, Holstebro, Stade,...
Christian Hain
May 28, 2018


Ana Playing With Fire, and Mud: The Videos of Ana Mendieta at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) Complementary to Louise Bourgeois at Schinkel Pavillon, Martin Gropius Bau also shows a legendary, 20th Century, woman,...
Christian Hain
May 21, 2018


Forms of Creation, and Decay. Louise Bourgeois at Schinkel Pavillon
(Berlin.) This year, Schinkel Pavilion won the race: Their Gallery Weekend Berlin show opened one week prematurely, days before everyone...
Christian Hain
May 9, 2018


Gallery Weekend Berlin 2k18 - Part 3: Still more Galleries...
(Berlin.) Welcome back, those of you who still bear with me for this report on the high- and the low! -lights of Gallery Weekend Berlin...
Christian Hain
May 5, 2018


Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 – Part 2: Galleries, Oh so Many Galleries
(Berlin.) After the preliminaries, the gallery shows of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 finally started. Once again, it’s a long list, and...
Christian Hain
May 4, 2018


Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 - The Beginning: A Journey to Potsdam and Free Vodka
(Berlin.) Once again: Gallery Weekend Berlin. Still not “gallery-weakened”, still too much to see, far too much to mention all in a...
Christian Hain
May 1, 2018


Artistic Fusion Cuisine, from Tokyo to Paris: Foujita -san at Musée Maillol
(Paris.) Still today, the mutual obsession between Japan and France, and the city of Paris in particular, is somewhat out of the...
Christian Hain
Apr 21, 2018


Young Old Master Class: Tintoretto’s Beginnings at Musée du Luxembourg
(Paris.) In all its glorious opulence, the first room of Musée du Luxembourg’s Tintoretto show induces patrons to an almost cartoon-like...
Christian Hain
Apr 12, 2018
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