Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 4: The Prayer, Daughter of Mine, The Real Estate
Day Four, 18 February The Prayer is a promotional film for the Catholic church, set in the French Alps. It tells the story of Thomas, a...
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Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 3: Dovlatov, Transit, Eva
Day Three, 17 February Third day, and I already suffer from severe butt cramps. These seats reach levels of uncomfortable, you can...
Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 2: The Heiresses, Damsel, Black 47
Day Two, 15 February Honest now: A film promising “lesbian prison action”, you probably expect to be... different than The Heiresses....
Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 1: Isle of Dogs
(Berlin.) Here we go again: Berlinale 2018 has started. Like every year – well: like last year – you may follow my musings on the day’s...
Forum Expanded, A Brand of Berlinale. So Very Political...
(Berlin.) Berlinale’s back. And just like the past year, the film festival grants its name and logo to off-site art exhibitions in two...
(Opinion Piece) Berlinale 2018 – Some Preliminary Thoughts
(Berlin.) It’s that time of year again: Berlinale, Berlin’s foremost film festival, the fourth most important film festival in the world...
In Daimler's Shopping Bag, From Peking to Berlin
(Berlin.) Welcome back after the Christmas Break. Maybe it was the same for you as for me, the same as every year: First buying all...
Will the Builder, and a Draughtsman
(Berlin.) For a change, the latest exhibition at Kupferstichkabinett does not celebrate an artist’s anniversary or some kind of memorial....
No Kiss, no Tanned Guy under that Mistletoe - Yves Tanguy, Scharf Gerstenberg Collection
(Berlin.) Stepping through the looted Egyptian portal of Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection is an impressive experience. Placed inside the...
This is Coming to You Directly from the Streets. (Or Nah.)
(Berlin.) I’ve been invited. To a blind date with art, and this is a rare occasion indeed. It makes you feel blessed, it makes you feel...
‘Straya Now for me – The National Gallery of Australia Visits me Collectors Room
(Berlin.) G’day, mate! ... Let me see, what stereotypes do we have ‘bout ‘Straya? (“‘Straya”: check - ‘Strayan slang is to ‘breviate...
China Exchange and Many ‘Faceful’ Men - Kulturforum Goes East
(Berlin.) Ni Hao, dearest art lover. Stepping into the sombre twilight of Kulturforum’s “Art Library”, you feel transported to an early...
Oriental Occidentalism in many Varieties – Fahrelnissa Zeid at Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle
(Berlin.) Deutsche Bank got itself a board member with Turkish roots lately, but that’s rather a coincidence, and not immediately...
Who’s Skaer-ed of Lucy? A Show Dedicated to History and Language
(Berlin.) KW Institute starts into the winter season with a solo of Scottish artist Lucy Skaer. In the beginning, there’s a table, or...
Just Another Art Award – Preis der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) Generally, in art, the prelude, i.e. the opening, is also the main thing, the most important date of the six to eight weeks to...
me Arab, You Berlin; Almost a State Visit
(Berlin.) Every time, I hear about occidental art in an Arabian context, I feel unsure. When, some years ago, the Louvre of all places...
Schering, Kindl, Schinkel. And Berlinische Galerie
(Berlin.) Imagine for a moment, you’re dealing in art, and you represent your gallery at a fair. What could be more convenient than the...
The Aftermath of BAW’17, or: From Berlin to Miami Beach in 23 Galleries
(Berlin.) Now that Berlin Art Week is over, it’s time to focus on different things again. Or is it? We've mentioned the diffuse...
AB, But no Longer, and Yet Still: C. With and Without Positions.
(Berlin.) A lot of questions surround Berlin Art Week (BAW): Is there anybody who has never confused it with Gallery Weekend Berlin...
Marx-ist Gardens for the People (and the Privileged) – Roberto Burle Marx at Deutsche Bank Kunsthall
(Berlin.) You know Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and probably even Karl, but you never heard of Roberto Burle Marx - unless you’re Brazilian, or...
That’s Luscious - No, Excuse the Freudian Slip: That’s Lucian! The Etchings of Lucian Freud at MGB
(Berlin.) This summer, Martin Gropius Bau opens its doors to a Swiss bank. Speaking simply of a promo event would not be fair, though:...
A Summer Hit Less Annoying than Despacito? Try Kupferstichkabinett
(Berlin.) For the fourth time already, Berlin’s public drawing collection stages a summer exhibition. This, of course, is just a title;...
1 Museum, 4 Artists, 50 Hertz
(Berlin.) Once again, I came unprepared. All I knew was, there’s an art exhibition at a company called “50 Hertz”. The invitation was...
Formed, Furnished, Forgotten - The Life of a Sculpture; Skulptur-Projekte Münster 2017
(Münster.) Art knows biennials, triennials, quinquennials, and even decennials. Skulptur-Projekte Münster (SPM) might not be Germany’s...
To Document~a Crisis, or Many. Documenta 14: Your Favourite Quinquennial
(Cassel.) Nobody ever visits Cassel outside of Documenta. Thus, to say, a trip to the German hinterland before the grand opening were...
A Labyrinth of Lies, or: Artist’s Assistant for a Day
(Berlin.) One fine day at the end of May, I happened upon a cry for help on Facebook. The team behind last year’s Dark Rooms was busy...
Stars, Scars and Scares at KW Institute
(Berlin.) It’s always nice to find artists inspired by the same phenomena of mass culture that none of us can escape. In the case of KW...
Tell us of “Tellers” - The Photo Stories of Jürgen Teller
(Berlin.) Two new photo shows at Martin Gropius Bau, let’s start with the less obscure: You know Jürgen Teller, of course you do, at...
Protest This - Martin Luther and Other Protestantisms in a Historic Show, at Martin-Gropius-Bau
(Berlin.) The German government puts much effort into celebrating Martin Luther this year. Nailing his 99 problems - no: 95 theses - on a...
Gallery Weekend Berlin Part 3 – More Galleries, Ever More Galleries... And Parties
(Berlin.) This city offers a sheer endless supply of gallery hotspots. We have not yet talked about the eminent neighbourhood of KW and...
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