World of Arts  Magazine

(Berlin.) Summer of Love at Deutsche Bank owned Palais Populaire promises to portray an era, a year, or only some months back in 1967...

(Berlin.) Pakistani artist Bani Abidi invites you to a virtual trip from Berlin's Martin Gropius Bau to Karachi. Mostly showing videos,...

(Berlin.) Part I: It. It can get quite dangerous to be gifted – or cursed – with a sharp tongue, a sense for bl- dark! dark! humour, or a...

(Berlin.) I've hesitated, I really did: Is it ok to roast a young artist for his first show, or to be precise: three young artists for...

(Berlin.) “Travel and copy” is one of the best-proven recipes for success: Go abroad, take a look at what’s happening and if you think,...

(Berlin.) This year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin cast its shadows already in mid-April, with institutional openings in abundance. Unlike in...

(Berlin.) Photography artist Andreas Mühe is the son of a (locally) well-known, deceased, German actor, and even if upon being confronted...

(Berlin.) Just a few (more) words on Gallery Weekend 2019 today, the annual decentralized “art fair” in Berlin organized by the same guys...

(Berlin.) Just like every other market player, contemporary art museums, and not only those for contemporary art, feel a constant...

(Berlin.) Hamburger Bahnhof Museum is a thoroughly modern art museum and as such, it follows the zeitgeist. A politically correct...

(Potsdam.) Back in Potsdam, “Berlin’s Versailles”, and the mix of historicising new and once-destroyed-then-restored-thus-somehow-still-a...

(Berlin.) With Mantegna and Bellini, Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie - “one of Europe’s leading picture galleries” as they nowadays style...

(Berlin.) We hope, nobody will take offence if this little known blog writes, a little known museum is on a mission to make a little...

(Berlin.) Georg Kolbe Museum resides in an affluent Western borough of Berlin. You almost forget those exist, too, when staying too much...

(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...

(Berlin.) And that’s it, Berlinale 2019 is history, the 69th overall and the 19th, and last ever, directed by Diether Kosslick. The grand...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(Berlin.) The best words to describe Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology appear in the film itself: “You don’t need to be scared!...

(Berlin.) Returning home from another unsuccessful job interview at a sweatshop in the Macedonian outback, overweight, 32 years old, a...

(Berlin.) A new day, a new psycho-drama. Austrian language film The Ground Beneath My Feet might have been named for some well hidden...

(Berlin.) Remember that film yesterday, The Kindness of Strangers? There was this family father having serious psychological issues......

(Berlin.) And so it starts again,... and ends. Berlinale LXIX - sorry, still in that Super Bowl mood: Berlinale 69 - is the eighteenth...

(Berlin.) As the director of Deutsche Bank Collection’s new art space put it: “The first hundred days of Palais Populaire are over, and...

(Berlin.) It happens quite often in art, that people of a Western background misunderstand an Asian artist. In the case of Lee Bul, it...

(Berlin.) Three new shows at KW, three (still, rather) young artists presenting their work. First thing we notice on ground floor is a...

(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...

(Berlin.) If on the occasion of your visit to Berlinische Galerie’s Julien Charrière exhibition, which recently opened to honour the...

(Berlin.) Art Berlin still is not the fiac, or Frieze, or – ok, we’ll stop. It is what it is, the best art fair you can reasonably expect...