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Externalised Artistic Schizophrenia: Profiling Lynn Hershman Leeson at KW at The Shelf
(Berlin.) Berlin Biennale is almost upon us, and most of you will be preparing their summer vacation or counting the days to the World...
Christian Hain
Jun 8, 2018


The Apprentice Curator. A Meaty Show at Altes Museum
(Berlin.) Promoting their latest show, Flesh, Altes Museum – “Old Museum”, that’s the name indeed - does not exactly highlight the fact,...
Christian Hain
Jun 4, 2018


Big Fish Eat Little Fish – Artificial Fish Eats All. Philippe Parreno at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) There it is: The long anticipated, much announced, summer show of Philippe Parreno at Martin Gropius Bau. Outside, climate...
Christian Hain
May 31, 2018


Meese, Richter, TAL R. Art in the Hinterlands
(Stade.) Espoo (FIN), Holstebro (DEN), Stade (GER) - which one doesn’t belong? No, wait, let me rephrase that: Espoo, Holstebro, Stade,...
Christian Hain
May 28, 2018


Ana Playing With Fire, and Mud: The Videos of Ana Mendieta at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) Complementary to Louise Bourgeois at Schinkel Pavillon, Martin Gropius Bau also shows a legendary, 20th Century, woman,...
Christian Hain
May 21, 2018


Forms of Creation, and Decay. Louise Bourgeois at Schinkel Pavillon
(Berlin.) This year, Schinkel Pavilion won the race: Their Gallery Weekend Berlin show opened one week prematurely, days before everyone...
Christian Hain
May 9, 2018


Gallery Weekend Berlin 2k18 - Part 3: Still more Galleries...
(Berlin.) Welcome back, those of you who still bear with me for this report on the high- and the low! -lights of Gallery Weekend Berlin...
Christian Hain
May 5, 2018


Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 – Part 2: Galleries, Oh so Many Galleries
(Berlin.) After the preliminaries, the gallery shows of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 finally started. Once again, it’s a long list, and...
Christian Hain
May 4, 2018


Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 - The Beginning: A Journey to Potsdam and Free Vodka
(Berlin.) Once again: Gallery Weekend Berlin. Still not “gallery-weakened”, still too much to see, far too much to mention all in a...
Christian Hain
May 1, 2018


Artistic Fusion Cuisine, from Tokyo to Paris: Foujita -san at Musée Maillol
(Paris.) Still today, the mutual obsession between Japan and France, and the city of Paris in particular, is somewhat out of the...
Christian Hain
Apr 21, 2018


Young Old Master Class: Tintoretto’s Beginnings at Musée du Luxembourg
(Paris.) In all its glorious opulence, the first room of Musée du Luxembourg’s Tintoretto show induces patrons to an almost cartoon-like...
Christian Hain
Apr 12, 2018


Lutz Bacher - Living Up to Anticipation at Lafayette Foundation?
(Paris.) Have you not been waiting all your life for a sentence like this: “Back from backpacking to Paris, I’m backing up my Macbook...
Christian Hain
Apr 9, 2018


Next Station Berlin: Irving Penn, a Centennial @ C/O Berlin
(Berlin.) Any nerd will be happy to tell you that a domain name is actually just a c/o address for a string of nonsensical numbers. For...
Christian Hain
Mar 25, 2018


Carsten Nicolai. A Quant-astic Tele-party at Berlinische Galerie
(Berlin.) Lasers are cool, everything’s better with lasers. From SciFi to dermatologic surgeries and all sorts of “useful” applications...
Christian Hain
Mar 23, 2018


Artists and Furniture. Judith Hopf, Trix & Robert Haussmann (ft. Liam Gillick) at KW
(Berlin.) Did we mention already, it was cold in Berlin, two weeks before Berlinale? Because it was. Could a visit to KW prove...
Christian Hain
Mar 16, 2018


Stoschek Goes Black. Probably Will Go Back
(Berlin.) The first week of February and arriving at Julia Stoschek Collection for a new show, I felt desperately in need of a coffee,...
Christian Hain
Mar 12, 2018


Beat 'Em Up, Wolf-Son. Jordan Wolfson at Schinkel Pavillon
(Berlin.) The construction works all around Schinkel Pavillon are almost(?) finished, and we can start speculating about what will...
Christian Hain
Mar 2, 2018


The Ivy League of Collages - Eduardo Paolozzi at Berlinische Galerie
(Berlin.) After all these films, it’s time for some art again. The opening of Eduardo Paolozzi: Lots of Pictures – Lots of Fun at...
Christian Hain
Feb 28, 2018


Berlinale 2018. Some Afterthoughts
And that's it; the 68th International Berlin Film Festival - Berlinale 2018 is history. Some films were good, some were less, and, let’s...
Christian Hain
Feb 26, 2018


Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 9: Twarz (Mug), In the Aisles, Ága
Day Nine - 23 February The keyword of today is “countryside”. Believing the opening credits, Twarz (Mug) is set in the Polish “Nowhere”,...
Christian Hain
Feb 24, 2018
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