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...
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Christian Hain
- Jul 12, 2019
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,...
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Christian Hain
- Jul 3, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Jun 20, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Jun 6, 2019
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,...
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Christian Hain
- May 17, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- May 10, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- May 3, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Apr 11, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Apr 10, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Mar 20, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Mar 12, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Mar 6, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 27, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 21, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 17, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 16, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 14, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 12, 2019
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...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 11, 2019
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!...
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