'Canell' Pleasures Under the Sea: Nina Canell's Tectonic Tender at Berlinische Galerie
first published on newartexaminer.net (Berlin.) Just in time for Berlin Gallery Weekend - which happened again almost as normal this year...
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Christian Hain
- Jul 22
"The Shape of Freedom": Western and Far Western Abstraction at Barberini Museum, Potsdam
(Berlin.) Hasso Plattner is a man of many passions, from computers: co-founding software giant SAP provided him with the means to become...
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Christian Hain
- May 30
Through the Year in Two Rooms and Some Centuries: David Hockney, Würth Collection, Gemäldegalerie
(Berlin.) When one of Germany's top collectors, "Master of Screws" (that's what he does, i.e. sells, for a - very good! - living) Mr....
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Christian Hain
- Mar 16
Time is Money is Art: "Cash on the Wall(s)" of Berlin Volksbank Foundation Kunstforum
(Berlin.) Who in and out of the artworld would deny that we live in decidedly materialist times? It's not different in Berlin than...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 11
In Space and Art, Nobody Can Hear You Scream - A Gigern-tesque Alien Invasion of Schinkel Pavillon
(Berlin.) Day-to-day being confronted with the apalling ugliness of Berlin, how many times have we not mentally quoted James Cameron's...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 10
Meditation and Medication: Damien Hirst in Paris
written in October 2021 (Paris.) For various reasons, getting into the mood proved kind of hard when I visited Damien Hirst's first ever...
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Christian Hain
- Feb 7
He "didded" it again, one last(?) time: The Arc de Triomphe wrapped by Christo & Jeanne-Claude
written in October 2021 and first published on newartexaminer.net (Paris.) You know how it is when a close relation has passed away:...
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Christian Hain
- Jul 24, 2021
Back to the Woods: Christiane Löhr at Haus am Waldsee
(Berlin.) Mother Nature is a busy person(-inifaction) taking care of many things, from microscopic life forms regulating the...
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Christian Hain
- Mar 24, 2021
Corona and Art, still/again
This text was written in February 2021. An abridged version has first been published in print by the New Art Examiner. "Life is finite."...
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Christian Hain
- Mar 6, 2021
Berlinale 2021 - Day 5: NACAB, Hippie Teachers 'mkay?, and Fin
The first scenes of Alonso Ruizpalacios' Una película de policías ("A Cop Movie") feel very conventional, as the camera takes us on a...
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Christian Hain
- Mar 5, 2021
Berlinale 2021 - Day 4: From Iran to Kinky Japan
First of all, let's ignore that elephant, well: bear, in the room. This year is different: Not only that Berlinale streamed online, or...
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Christian Hain
- Mar 4, 2021
Berlinale 2021 - Day 3: Hung(a)ry For Some Light. Childish, Dead Serious, and Georgia On My Mind
1. Children's TV or Magical Realism, both? Petite Maman ("Little Mommy") is yet another French movie in Berlinale's selection. Also yet...
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Christian Hain
- Mar 4, 2021
Berlinale 2021 - Day 2: Seabirds, Porn, and the Chronicle of a Massacre Foretold
1) The Natural Light is very dark Wintertime in Hungary, or Russia, Ukraine, some place in that vast region, we (ignorantly) like to call...
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Christian Hain
- Mar 3, 2021
Not quite Netflix-and-chill, but: Berlinale-and-chilly-weather outside. A Different Festival
(Berlin.) Originally scheduled for February when it had to be postponed for the well known circumstances, Berlinale, the Berlin Film...
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Christian Hain
- Nov 17, 2020
J.S. presents... J.S. - Jeremy Shaw Takes Julia Stoschek Collection on a Trip Back to the Future
first published on newartexaminer.net (Berlin.) It’s all very confusing indeed, and I don’t mean that virus thing, no: even before that...
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Christian Hain
- Nov 17, 2020
“It Wasn’t Us” – It’s Katharina Grosse, and a Great Installation at Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof
first published on newartexaminer.net (Berlin.) Quite unexpectedly, a visitor’s first thought upon entering Katharina Grosse’s single...
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Christian Hain
- Jul 31, 2020
Building Bridges, Among Other Things: Art and Architecture at Haus am Waldsee
(Berlin.) Remember that movie The Cabin in the Woods? It got kind of a cult following among horror/comedy fans, but rest assured:...
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Christian Hain
- Jul 27, 2020
Un-/Veiled: Art In the Time of Corona. A Christo & Jeanne-Claude Retrospective at Palais Populaire
first published on newartexaminer.net This text has been written before the artist's passing in May. (Berlin.) Since early May, Berlin...
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Christian Hain
- Jul 22, 2020
Nigeria to Berlin: With Otobong Nkanga at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) Entering Otobong Nkanga's show at Gropius Bau, we step right into a Zen-like stone garden, feeling anxious if this is indeed...
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Christian Hain
- Jun 10, 2020
MG’s Back: Lee Mingwei at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) Having been closed for nearly two months “on account of the current situation”, Martin Gropius Bau reopened in May, extending...
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