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Installing... Installing... Installation complete. Moving Is In Every Direction at Hamburger Bahnhof
(Berlin.) “Art installed in space” may appear under many names. “Narrative spaces” would be one, “environment” another. The curators of...
Christian Hain
Mar 24, 2017


Duchamp to Daimler, Handmade, Ready-Made, Fanmade
(Berlin.) I’ve been to D.C. again. Daimler Contemporary, that is. Their latest show is about “ready-mades and beyond”, or, the exact...
Christian Hain
Mar 16, 2017


Art'n'Eels, Bugs'n'Chips. Stoschek's back.
(Berlin). Julia Stoschek Collection has opened a second show in Berlin, and this time you’re not expected to read a book or watch a film...
Christian Hain
Mar 10, 2017


The Berlinale Trilogy – A Prequel: Forum Expanded, Expanded
(Berlin.) Last time we talked about art, we stopped short at the films of Forum Expanded. A restriction on telling about those before...
Christian Hain
Feb 20, 2017


The Berlinale Trilogy Part 3: Thoughts and Winners
(Berlin.) The Berlinale is history, and soon we’ll talk about art again. But first... Berlinale Jury was composed of Paul Verhoeven...
Christian Hain
Feb 20, 2017


The Berlinale Trilogy, A Spinoff – The Interview, starring Xu Haofeng
(Berlin.) And now for something completely different... During this year’s Berlinale, the Asian Film & Television Promotion (AFTP), and...
Christian Hain
Feb 16, 2017


The Berlinale Trilogy, Part 2 – A Film Festival
This page will be updated with more reviews as the festival continues. (Berlin.) The first days of Berlinale are over and the competition...
Christian Hain
Feb 11, 2017


The Berlinale Trilogy, Part 1 – A Forum Expanded
(Berlin.) I don’t know about you, but when I realize I’ve been staring at a screen for six hours and a half – not typing, or clicking,...
Christian Hain
Feb 9, 2017


Schering Foundation and Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Forming the Future
(Berlin.) Feeling SAD? Schering (Pharmaceutics, now a subsidiary of Bayer, and no longer formally connected to the art activities)...
Christian Hain
Feb 2, 2017


You Haven’t Changed a Bit, KW Institute! A Reopening.
(Berlin.) Imagine a famous art venue taking a four months’ vacation to break in the new boss, and do some much needed refurbishing....
Christian Hain
Jan 25, 2017


A New Year, A New Art? Four Berlin Gallery Shows
(Berlin.) It might seem a bit late, but lest we forget: “Happy new Year!” What could be better to warm up to 2017 - not literally, mind:...
Christian Hain
Jan 19, 2017


Don’t Talk, Just Watch. A Day at the Movies with Omer Fast
(Berlin.) Omer Fast’s video show Talking isn’t always the solution has opened about a month ago, but we did not write this review really...
Christian Hain
Dec 15, 2016


A Visit to Vincent van Gogh Museum, Guest Starring Monet, Daubigny and Pissarro
(Amsterdam.) ”Maybe I should go and live in Amsterdam / In a side street near a big canal / Spend my evenings in the van Gogh Museum /...
Christian Hain
Dec 9, 2016


The Amsterdam Art Weekend 2016, Part 2: The Institutions (some of them)
(Amsterdam.) The Amsterdam Art Weekend was not limited to commercial galleries. Even Manifesta hosted a show in their corporate...
Christian Hain
Dec 3, 2016


Up in Smoke. The Amsterdam Art Weekend 2016, Part 1: Gallery Night
(Amsterdam.) I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right: Who would travel to Amsterdam, and not smoke weed? It’s like visiting Germany...
Christian Hain
Nov 30, 2016


Picasso, Klee, Matisse, and Introducing George Condo at Berggruen Museum
(Berlin.) No matter how long you live in a city, there is always a museum you have not visited yet. In Berlin, my biggest neglect in this...
Christian Hain
Nov 24, 2016


Hieronymus Bosch with Friends, Fakers and Followers - All at Gemäldegalerie
(Berlin.) A serious art collector, you are not in Berlin, not now, not in November. The fair-y season has not yet begun in Miami, and...
Christian Hain
Nov 18, 2016


Dressing Up. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at Schinkel Pavilion and Esther Schipper Gallery
(Berlin.) 11 November marks the debut of the carnival season in (the catholic areas of) German speaking countries, a fact rather...
Christian Hain
Nov 16, 2016


20 Years of Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) In London, all public museums offer free admission to their collections, always. In Paris, it’s the same on the first Sunday of...
Christian Hain
Nov 15, 2016


Time for Beer, and Olympics
(Berlin.) An industrial wasteland not far off Hermannplatz, deep down in the Turkish-Arabian sector of Berlin where many young and...
Christian Hain
Nov 11, 2016
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