2010 erschien der paradigmatische Text «What Was the Hipster» von Mark Greif. Nach einer Dekade gelebten Distinktionsgewinns stellt sich im Jahre 2020 nun die Frage, ob die künstlerische Ästhetik des letzten Jahrzehnts nicht einfach nur in einen neuen Formalismus abgeglitten ist, um die immer schneller werdenden Verwertungszyklen der Hipness zu bedienen.
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Der kürzeste Jahresrückblick 2018: Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass Chris Dercon so schnell geht.
Chris Dercon war höchst umstritten, doch im Frühjahr 2018 schien seine Intendanz an der Berliner Volksbühne gefestigt zu sein. Doch dann überraschte mich am Freitag, dem 13. April, eine ganz besondere Nachricht.
Against All Odds
The Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin presents «The First Generation – Women Sculptors of Berlin Modernism» until 17th of June 2018. The exhibition shows the first famous female artists in the time of the Weimarer Republik – who are unfortunately somehow forgotten today. Here’s a little reminder of their artistic power.
Berlin Artweek 2017: Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann at Galerie Noah Klink, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld and Reto Pulfer at Bärenzwinger & «Festival of Future Nows 2017 → ∞» by Olafur Eliasson
Here are three carefully selected picks from this week’s Berlin Artweek 2017. By chance all of them include plants, refer to organisms and exhibit nature somehow – other connections surely can be found. Always remember: «The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness» as John Muir put it. Berlin Artweek 2017 is in
Volksbühne in Berlin: No consensus – but bonus material galore
After 25 years director Frank Castorf has to stop working at Berlin theatre «Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz» — more than a pardigm shift, but a warning to all of us and especially our politicians
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2017: Adam Pendleton, Donna Huanca, Luigi Presicce, Helga Paris, Jeongmoon Choi & Stefan Panhans
A selection of artists and their work shown at galleries, off-spaces, showrooms, municipal galleries and private collections in Berlin. Most of them will be on display for longer – check them out! Italian artist Luigi Presicce is finally exhibiting in Berlin for the first time, because luckily M+Project organized the exhibition «Nostalgia del Futuro» with the
Enjoy your life, Juergen Teller & Franconia!
Juergen Teller, who opens a show in April at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, was born in Erlangen where he has an exhibition at Kunstpalais Erlangen which is still on display there.
My view on art & culture in March 2017 in my private pictures & meandering words
Please follow me on Instagram for regular updates. This is the entrance to the stage workshop of Volksbühne in Weissensee. ⠀ Volksbühne – so many memories are connected with it. ⠀ The fist time I was there was for the concert of the back then new band Tocotronic in August 1996. I didn’t live in
My view on art & culture in February 2017 in my private pictures & meandering words
Please follow me on Instagram for regular updates. Finally I made it into the exhibition of Norwegian artist Hanne Lippard at KW Berlin called «Flesh», which was run over at the opening weekend and which is set in an attic style space reachable though a spiral staircase located in the center hall. In this environment
Unangekündigte Züge
Der Film «Werewolf» von der kanadischen Regisseurin Ashley McKenzie skizziert achtsam das Unangekündigte und zeichnet die schleichenden Wandlungen der Protagonisten nach.
Beim nächsten Mal wird alles anders
Heike-Melba Fendel lässt die Protagonistin ihres Romans «Zehn Tage im Februar» in die Welt des Films abgleiten und über die Liebe schwadronieren. Was für ein Irrweg!
My view on art & culture in Januar 2017 through my private pictures
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Aus den Archiven: Barbara Klemm
Über Barbara Klemm. Fotografien 1968 – 2013, eine Ausstellung im Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin vom November 2013 bis März 2014.
Ganz. Dicht. Dran.
Julia Zanges Roman «Realitätsgewitter», Instagram und das bisschen Welt dazwischen