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...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 18, 2018
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...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 17, 2018
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....
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Christian Hain
- Feb 16, 2018
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...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 16, 2018
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...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 15, 2018
(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...
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Christian Hain
- Jan 23, 2018
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...
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Christian Hain
- Dec 15, 2017
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....
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Christian Hain
- Dec 14, 2017
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...
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Christian Hain
- Dec 6, 2017
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...
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Christian Hain
- Nov 28, 2017
‘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...
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Christian Hain
- Nov 8, 2017
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...
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Christian Hain
- Oct 27, 2017
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...
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Christian Hain
- Oct 20, 2017
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...
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Christian Hain
- Oct 3, 2017
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...
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Christian Hain
- Sep 28, 2017
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...
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Christian Hain
- Sep 22, 2017
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...
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Christian Hain
- Sep 22, 2017
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...
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Christian Hain
- Sep 15, 2017
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...
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Christian Hain
- Aug 17, 2017
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...
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