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Berlinale 2019 – Day 4: They all have a Cross to Bear, She, and He, and They too!
(Berlin.) Returning home from another unsuccessful job interview at a sweatshop in the Macedonian outback, overweight, 32 years old, a...
Christian Hain
Feb 11, 2019


Berlinale 2019 – Day 3: Business, Scenery, and a Homicidal Hamburger
(Berlin.) A new day, a new psycho-drama. Austrian language film The Ground Beneath My Feet might have been named for some well hidden...
Christian Hain
Feb 10, 2019


Berlinale 2019 - Day 2: Don’t Run From Your Issues – Not Even to Mongolia
(Berlin.) Remember that film yesterday, The Kindness of Strangers? There was this family father having serious psychological issues......
Christian Hain
Feb 9, 2019


Berlinale 2019 – Day 1: A Lone, Sentimentalist, Film. Keep those Tissues Ready
(Berlin.) And so it starts again,... and ends. Berlinale LXIX - sorry, still in that Super Bowl mood: Berlinale 69 - is the eighteenth...
Christian Hain
Feb 8, 2019


Oi, that’s Sculpture, innit? “Objects of Wonder - British Sculpture from the Tate Collection”
(Berlin.) As the director of Deutsche Bank Collection’s new art space put it: “The first hundred days of Palais Populaire are over, and...
Christian Hain
Feb 5, 2019


Times and Technology. And Korea! Lee Bul won’t Crash at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) It happens quite often in art, that people of a Western background misunderstand an Asian artist. In the case of Lee Bul, it...
Christian Hain
Nov 24, 2018


A Threesome with Robots, ‘Nature and Sh—‘ at KW Institute
(Berlin.) Three new shows at KW, three (still, rather) young artists presenting their work. First thing we notice on ground floor is a...
Christian Hain
Nov 7, 2018


Agneszka Polska, Therapist for the Demon’s Brain. At Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) As you are probably all aware by now, a certain Bavarian car maker is sponsoring the BAW and the GWB, among many other good...
Christian Hain
Oct 22, 2018


Radioactive Nuts, Politics, Blue Chips and Planetariums. Still BAW'18
(Berlin.) If on the occasion of your visit to Berlinische Galerie’s Julien Charrière exhibition, which recently opened to honour the...
Christian Hain
Oct 6, 2018


Who says “a” must say “B” - That’s a Strong Position. Thou Art Fair, BAW’18
(Berlin.) Art Berlin still is not the fiac, or Frieze, or – ok, we’ll stop. It is what it is, the best art fair you can reasonably expect...
Christian Hain
Oct 1, 2018
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