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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
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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
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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
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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 27, 2018
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Lutz Bacher - Living Up to Anticipation at Lafayette Foundation?
(Paris.) Have you not been waiting all your life for a sentence like this: “Back from backpacking to Paris, I’m backing up my Macbook...
Christian Hain
Apr 9, 2018
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Next Station Berlin: Irving Penn, a Centennial @ C/O Berlin
(Berlin.) Any nerd will be happy to tell you that a domain name is actually just a c/o address for a string of nonsensical numbers. For...
Christian Hain
Mar 25, 2018
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Carsten Nicolai. A Quant-astic Tele-party at Berlinische Galerie
(Berlin.) Lasers are cool, everything’s better with lasers. From SciFi to dermatologic surgeries and all sorts of “useful” applications...
Christian Hain
Mar 22, 2018
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