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From Deutsche Bank with Love: Summer of Love at Palais Populaire
(Berlin.) Summer of Love at Deutsche Bank owned Palais Populaire promises to portray an era, a year, or only some months back in 1967...
Christian Hain
Jul 13, 2019
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Two Way Ticket to Pakistan: Bani Abidi, They Died Laughing at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) Pakistani artist Bani Abidi invites you to a virtual trip from Berlin's Martin Gropius Bau to Karachi. Mostly showing videos,...
Christian Hain
Jul 12, 2019
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A Summer Threesome at KW – Featuring ALL Genders*esses
(Berlin.) Part I: It. It can get quite dangerous to be gifted – or cursed – with a sharp tongue, a sense for bl- dark! dark! humour, or a...
Christian Hain
Jul 3, 2019
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Short Circuit to Success? 50 Hertz Rundgang 2019, Brought to You by Nationalgalerie
(Berlin.) I've hesitated, I really did: Is it ok to roast a young artist for his first show, or to be precise: three young artists for...
Christian Hain
Jun 20, 2019
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Bröhan’s Eleven: The “Association of the XI” at Bröhan Museum, Starring Max Liebermann
(Berlin.) “Travel and copy” is one of the best-proven recipes for success: Go abroad, take a look at what’s happening and if you think,...
Christian Hain
Jun 6, 2019
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Take me Beyond, Mr Olbricht
(Berlin.) This year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin cast its shadows already in mid-April, with institutional openings in abundance. Unlike in...
Christian Hain
May 17, 2019
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Do Androids Dream of Eclectic Portraits? Andreas Mühe and his Mischpoche at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) Photography artist Andreas Mühe is the son of a (locally) well-known, deceased, German actor, and even if upon being confronted...
Christian Hain
May 10, 2019
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The Weekend is Long and Full of Art - Gallery Weekend Berlin 2019
(Berlin.) Just a few (more) words on Gallery Weekend 2019 today, the annual decentralized “art fair” in Berlin organized by the same guys...
Christian Hain
May 3, 2019
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Breakdance and Ballet, VR and a Monk - A Thoroughly Modern Double Feature
(Berlin.) Just like every other market player, contemporary art museums, and not only those for contemporary art, feel a constant...
Christian Hain
Apr 11, 2019
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A Jack of all Trades – Jack’s Jacks by Jack Whitten at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) Hamburger Bahnhof Museum is a thoroughly modern art museum and as such, it follows the zeitgeist. A politically correct...
Christian Hain
Apr 10, 2019
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Pablo Picasso Visits Plattner in Potsdam. Picasso – The Late Work at Museum Par- no: Barberini!
(Potsdam.) Back in Potsdam, “Berlin’s Versailles”, and the mix of historicising new and once-destroyed-then-restored-thus-somehow-still-a...
Christian Hain
Mar 20, 2019
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Mantegna and Bellini, Two Italian Greats at Gemäldegalerie Berlin
(Berlin.) With Mantegna and Bellini, Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie - “one of Europe’s leading picture galleries” as they nowadays style...
Christian Hain
Mar 12, 2019
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Fantastic Beasts and How to Paint Them: Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald at Bröhan Museum
(Berlin.) We hope, nobody will take offence if this little known blog writes, a little known museum is on a mission to make a little...
Christian Hain
Mar 6, 2019
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Glass, Rocks, and Canvas: Colourful Stones at Georg Kolbe Museum
(Berlin.) Georg Kolbe Museum resides in an affluent Western borough of Berlin. You almost forget those exist, too, when staying too much...
Christian Hain
Feb 27, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 – Leftovers, or: The Best of the Rest
(Berlin.) What We Left Unfinished is not only the title of a film, but also our motto of the day. Apart from all those films in and...
Christian Hain
Feb 21, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 – Day 10: Fin.
(Berlin.) And that’s it, Berlinale 2019 is history, the 69th overall and the 19th, and last ever, directed by Diether Kosslick. The grand...
Christian Hain
Feb 17, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 – Days 8 and 9: Chinese Families, an OST without a Film, and Brazil Beyond Football.
(Berlin.) Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son is a Chinese family drama of three hours, and the pace is slow. An intense film, and not easy...
Christian Hain
Feb 16, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 - Day 7: Spanish Lesbians, Artists and Jews in Paris. "Elisa and Marcela",
(Berlin.) The last - and only - time, I’ve seen Agnès Varda was at the opening of her gallery show in Paris a couple of years ago. It was...
Christian Hain
Feb 14, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 – Day 6: Trash From Germany, Italy Reclaiming the Mafia, and Nobody’s Going to Syria
(Berlin.) Angela Schanelec’s I was at Home, But starts as a silent movie without intertitles or music. As soon as there is dialogue, you...
Christian Hain
Feb 12, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 - Day 5: The Ghastly Arctic, Agitprop, and Anatolia. "Ghost Town Anthology"
(Berlin.) The best words to describe Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology appear in the film itself: “You don’t need to be scared!...
Christian Hain
Feb 11, 2019
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