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Glass, Rocks, and Canvas: Colourful Stones at Georg Kolbe Museum
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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Skulptur, eine Inselbegabung: Objects of Wonder – die Tate Collection am Palais Populaire
Christian Hain
  • Feb 26, 2019

Skulptur, eine Inselbegabung: Objects of Wonder – die Tate Collection am Palais Populaire

(Berlin.) in den Worten der Direktorin der Deutsche Bank Kunstsammlung, Frau von Reichenbach: „Die ersten hundert Tage im Palais...
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Berlinale 2019 – Leftovers, or: The Best of the Rest
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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Berlinale 2019 – Day 10: Fin.
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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Berlinale 2019 – Days 8 and 9: Chinese Families, an OST without a Film, and Brazil Beyond Football.
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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Berlinale 2019 - Day 7: Spanish Lesbians, Artists and Jews in Paris. "Elisa and Marcela",
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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Berlinale 2019 – Day 6: Trash From Germany, Italy Reclaiming the Mafia, and Nobody’s Going to Syria
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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Berlinale 2019 - Day 5: The Ghastly Arctic, Agitprop, and Anatolia. "Ghost Town Anthology"
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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Berlinale 2019 – Day 4: They all have a Cross to Bear, She, and He, and They too!
Christian Hain
  • Feb 10, 2019

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...
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Berlinale 2019 – Day 3: Business, Scenery, and a Homicidal Hamburger
Christian Hain
  • Feb 9, 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...
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Berlinale 2019 - Day 2: Don’t Run From Your Issues – Not Even to Mongolia
Christian Hain
  • Feb 8, 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......
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Berlinale 2019 – Day 1: A Lone, Sentimentalist, Film. Keep those Tissues Ready
Christian Hain
  • Feb 7, 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...
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Oi, that’s Sculpture, innit? “Objects of Wonder - British Sculpture from the Tate Collection”
Christian Hain
  • Feb 5, 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...
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Zeit für Spiegel, Berge, Cyborgs. Und Korea. Lee Buls Crash am Martin Gropius Bau
Christian Hain
  • Nov 24, 2018

Zeit für Spiegel, Berge, Cyborgs. Und Korea. Lee Buls Crash am Martin Gropius Bau

(Berlin.) Die Werke asiatischer Künstler werden von westlichen Rezipienten häufig mißverstanden. Im Falle Lee Buls kann das schon mit dem...
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Times and Technology. And Korea! Lee Bul won’t Crash at Martin Gropius Bau
Christian Hain
  • Nov 24, 2018

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...
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Flotter Dreier mit Pilzen, Sofas und Robotern am KW
Christian Hain
  • Nov 14, 2018

Flotter Dreier mit Pilzen, Sofas und Robotern am KW

(Berlin.) Willkommen zu drei neuen Ausstellungen mit den Arbeiten (noch, relativ,) junger Künstler im KW. Im Erdgeschoß fällt der erste...
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A Threesome with Robots, ‘Nature and Sh—‘ at KW Institute
Christian Hain
  • Nov 7, 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...
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Agneszka Polska, Therapeut für das Dämonische Hirn mit Ambiguitätsproblemen
Christian Hain
  • Oct 24, 2018

Agneszka Polska, Therapeut für das Dämonische Hirn mit Ambiguitätsproblemen

(Berlin.) Wie inzwischen allgemein bekannt sein sollte, ist ein in Bayern beheimatetes Unternehmen der Automobilindustrie stolzer...
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Agneszka Polska, Therapist for the Demon’s Brain. At Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
Christian Hain
  • Oct 22, 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...
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Radioaktive Nüsse, Politik, Blue Chips und Planetarien. Immer noch BAW'18
Christian Hain
  • Oct 12, 2018

Radioaktive Nüsse, Politik, Blue Chips und Planetarien. Immer noch BAW'18

(Berlin.) Wenn Sie anläßlich Ihres Besuchs von Julien Charrières Ausstellung in der Berlinischen Galerie, die kürzlich im Rahmen der...
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