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Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 4: The Prayer, Daughter of Mine, The Real Estate
Day Four, 18 February The Prayer is a promotional film for the Catholic church, set in the French Alps. It tells the story of Thomas, a...
Christian Hain
Feb 19, 2018
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Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 3: Dovlatov, Transit, Eva
Day Three, 17 February Third day, and I already suffer from severe butt cramps. These seats reach levels of uncomfortable, you can...
Christian Hain
Feb 18, 2018
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Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 2: The Heiresses, Damsel, Black 47
Day Two, 15 February Honest now: A film promising “lesbian prison action”, you probably expect to be... different than The Heiresses....
Christian Hain
Feb 17, 2018
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Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 1: Isle of Dogs
(Berlin.) Here we go again: Berlinale 2018 has started. Like every year – well: like last year – you may follow my musings on the day’s...
Christian Hain
Feb 16, 2018
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Forum Expanded, A Brand of Berlinale. So Very Political...
(Berlin.) Berlinale’s back. And just like the past year, the film festival grants its name and logo to off-site art exhibitions in two...
Christian Hain
Feb 16, 2018
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(Opinion Piece) Berlinale 2018 – Some Preliminary Thoughts
(Berlin.) It’s that time of year again: Berlinale, Berlin’s foremost film festival, the fourth most important film festival in the world...
Christian Hain
Feb 15, 2018
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In Daimler's Shopping Bag, From Peking to Berlin
(Berlin.) Welcome back after the Christmas Break. Maybe it was the same for you as for me, the same as every year: First buying all...
Christian Hain
Jan 23, 2018
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Will the Builder, and a Draughtsman
(Berlin.) For a change, the latest exhibition at Kupferstichkabinett does not celebrate an artist’s anniversary or some kind of memorial....
Christian Hain
Dec 15, 2017
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No Kiss, no Tanned Guy under that Mistletoe - Yves Tanguy, Scharf Gerstenberg Collection
(Berlin.) Stepping through the looted Egyptian portal of Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection is an impressive experience. Placed inside the...
Christian Hain
Dec 14, 2017
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This is Coming to You Directly from the Streets. (Or Nah.)
(Berlin.) I’ve been invited. To a blind date with art, and this is a rare occasion indeed. It makes you feel blessed, it makes you feel...
Christian Hain
Dec 6, 2017
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‘Straya Now for me – The National Gallery of Australia Visits me Collectors Room
(Berlin.) G’day, mate! ... Let me see, what stereotypes do we have ‘bout ‘Straya? (“‘Straya”: check - ‘Strayan slang is to ‘breviate...
Christian Hain
Nov 28, 2017
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China Exchange and Many ‘Faceful’ Men - Kulturforum Goes East
(Berlin.) Ni Hao, dearest art lover. Stepping into the sombre twilight of Kulturforum’s “Art Library”, you feel transported to an early...
Christian Hain
Nov 8, 2017
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Oriental Occidentalism in many Varieties – Fahrelnissa Zeid at Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle
(Berlin.) Deutsche Bank got itself a board member with Turkish roots lately, but that’s rather a coincidence, and not immediately...
Christian Hain
Oct 27, 2017
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Who’s Skaer-ed of Lucy? A Show Dedicated to History and Language
(Berlin.) KW Institute starts into the winter season with a solo of Scottish artist Lucy Skaer. In the beginning, there’s a table, or...
Christian Hain
Oct 20, 2017
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Just Another Art Award – Preis der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) Generally, in art, the prelude, i.e. the opening, is also the main thing, the most important date of the six to eight weeks to...
Christian Hain
Oct 3, 2017
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me Arab, You Berlin; Almost a State Visit
(Berlin.) Every time, I hear about occidental art in an Arabian context, I feel unsure. When, some years ago, the Louvre of all places...
Christian Hain
Sep 28, 2017
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Schering, Kindl, Schinkel. And Berlinische Galerie
(Berlin.) Imagine for a moment, you’re dealing in art, and you represent your gallery at a fair. What could be more convenient than the...
Christian Hain
Sep 22, 2017
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The Aftermath of BAW’17, or: From Berlin to Miami Beach in 23 Galleries
(Berlin.) Now that Berlin Art Week is over, it’s time to focus on different things again. Or is it? We've mentioned the diffuse...
Christian Hain
Sep 22, 2017
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AB, But no Longer, and Yet Still: C. With and Without Positions.
(Berlin.) A lot of questions surround Berlin Art Week (BAW): Is there anybody who has never confused it with Gallery Weekend Berlin...
Christian Hain
Sep 15, 2017
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Marx-ist Gardens for the People (and the Privileged) – Roberto Burle Marx at Deutsche Bank Kunsthall
(Berlin.) You know Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and probably even Karl, but you never heard of Roberto Burle Marx - unless you’re Brazilian, or...
Christian Hain
Aug 17, 2017
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