(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Mar 14, 2013A Cold Sun rising over Palais de Tokyo(Paris.) Palais de Tokyo (Tokyo Palace) is France's best known "centre d'art", a public gallery with no collection of its own. After...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Mar 5, 2013Are You Experienced? Sous Influences at La Maison Rouge(Paris.) "Welcome on board of flight 777 from Paris to Kathmandu, soon we will reach our cruising altitude of: very high." La Maison...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Feb 20, 2013From Paris with Love: Correspondances at Espace Louis Vuitton(Paris.) For this new exhibition at Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, curator Erik Verhagen made a selection of artworks labelled as Mail...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Feb 5, 2013Sushi from Amsterdam: Van Gogh under the Influence(Paris.) An art collector founding his own museum is nothing special these days, but an art historian doing the same seems less common....
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Jan 26, 2013Jean-Michel Othoniel and Johan Creten, from Delacroix to Perrotin(Paris.) An art dealer has reached the top level when you start to wonder if he still adapts his schedule to museum shows or if it might...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Dec 28, 2012Ni Hao Smiley Face. Yue Minjun at the Cartier FoundationParis. Has your company already been sold to Chinese investors? No? But your boss is fluent in Mandarin and your Chinese subsidiary well...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Dec 13, 2012Viva El Loco: Some thoughts on Salvador Dali at Centre PompidouParis - Dali, "Tout Paris" is talking about Dali these days. The Centre Pompidou is virtually closed for any other activity as the huge...
Christian HainDec 7, 2012Turkey for Vuitton(Paris.) The last resistance to LVMH Foundation's private museum in the Bois de Boulogne has been squashed by court decision this summer....
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Nov 20, 2012Don't mess with Big G. An update on the Parisian gallery sceneParis- You can easily imagine Larry Gagosian's face when Thaddäeus Ropac announced his plans for a new exhibition space in the outskirts...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Nov 6, 2012Mr Ed Has Something More to Say: Edward Hopper at Grand Palais, ParisParis - I did not know Hopper. I mean, of course I knew "Nighthawks", but I thought that's all. And even in my perception of this...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Nov 5, 2012Man is Evil. Adel Abdessemed's Religious Pessimism at Centre Pompidou, ParisParis - Paris has a brand-new tourist attraction, people of all ages and origins can be observed posing for photographs with a giant...
Christian HainNov 3, 2012Roman Ondak, Bertille Bak: Two exhibitions at MAMVP Paris(Paris.) Do you know what a "Flash Mob" is? The phenomenon has briefly been in fashion in the '00s (gosh, so long ago), in a sense it was...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Oct 5, 2012So many questions: Bertrand Lavier, Centre Pompidou, ParisParis - Centre Pompidou starts the winter season with an exhibition of Bertrand Lavier: "Since 1969". Untypical for a retrospective, a...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Oct 1, 2012French Cuisine with Michel Blazy at Le Plateau, Paris(Paris) To celebrate its tenth birthday, Le Plateau, public gallery of the regional art council FRAC, invites us to Michel Blazy's "Grand...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Sep 27, 2012More of Paris: Cindy Sherman, Celèste Boursier-Mougenot, Sturtevant and the double Gabriel OrozcoParis - Here comes the second part of our overview on the Parisian gallery scene this autumn. A well anticipated event is Gabriel...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Sep 26, 2012Paris: La Rentrée, featuring Sophie Calle, Clément Cogitore, Fritz Panzer and many more...Paris - Every year in early September Parisians celebrate "La Rentreé", the "relaunch" of all activities, art related or not. During...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Sep 21, 2012Wael Shawky's Crusade to Berlin at KW Institute for Contemporary ArtBerlin - "KW" is a beautiful name for a public art gallery, isn't it? Very German at least. I remember a techno club with the same name...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Sep 19, 2012Berlin Calling: Hamburger Bahnhof Museum with Cy Twombly, Morton Bartlett, Architecture and MoreBerlin - Malicious gossip has it, that after-wall Berlin is the biggest Disneyland resort ever, showing no distinct style of its own but...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Aug 23, 2012A visit to Hamburg Part 2 : New York Photography 1890-1950 from Stieglitz to Man RayHamburg - Earlier I introduced you to Antony Gormley's Horizon Field Installation. A much less experimental exhibition can be found at...
(first published on artlifemagazine.com)Aug 22, 2012A Visit to Hamburg: Antony Gormley's Horizon Field InstallationHamburg - Hamburg is known for the second biggest European harbour after Rotterdam and the second largest European red light district...