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"We are the army of invaders"

Interview: Esther Schipper. What's behind the decision to relocate from Mitte to Schöneberg Ufer? Is it the end of an era or a new beginning? For Schipper, it's all history.

Apr 27, 2011 by in Art

Berlin's top chicks: Art babes

When it comes to the art world women seem to deploy more influence than power, as taste-shapers at home and key players on the international field. Part of our BERLIN'S TOP CHICKS package from THE BERLINER FRAU issue.

Mar 14, 2011 by | in Art

Tacheles in dates

From Europe's largest shopping arcade to Nazi meeting rooms, Kunsthaus Tacheles has a very colourful history.

Mar 9, 2011 by | in Art

Meet the artists

Come inside the graffiti covered walls of Berlin's most famous Kunsthaus (or tourist trap) with four of Tacheles' long-term residents.

Mar 9, 2011 by | in Art

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What a serious horror writing a play “hello man from kebab house” (Josef Kramhöller)

Jochen Kienzle's show is centred on photographer Josef Kramhöller, cast as a Kafkaesque avatar of himself.

Apr 3, 2011 by in Art

The revolution will not be Facebooked

Interview: Stephen Kovats. The transmediale artistic director is packing up his laptop following this year's fest after five years at the helm. Digital suicide and WikiLeaks are on the radar for his last year.

Jan 31, 2011 by in Art (1 Comments)

Angels disguised as lust

The Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition at C/O Berlin displays images of drooping penises, erect flowers, children and leatherboys but in classical form as only Mapplethorpe knew how.

Jan 31, 2011 by in Art

Imagine there is a heaven...

A chat with... Björn Dahlem. Dahlem's exhibition, Die Theorie des Himmels III – Focus Imaginarius, explores the fertile gaps in the rational terms of reason. He explains his role as creator and where religion fits in for him.

Dec 23, 2010 by in Art

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French artist Cyprien Gaillard examines monuments and their relocation. The aim of the game is to recover the thrill of discovery. Defiance is the answer. The object is the Pergamon altar, which was brought to Berlin piece by piece in the 1880s.

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LA artist Sterling Ruby reimagines the US as an acronym of its own flag: RWB. A country that has wrapped itself in its own iconography becomes something else. Ruby’s principle appears to be that paranoid delusions are the gateway to a kind of truth.

May 3, 2011 by

Jochen Kienzle's show is centred on photographer Josef Kramhöller, cast as a Kafkaesque avatar of himself, while the city is a dirty smear behind a crystalline thumbprint. Suspect it has something to do with performance being the mode of exposition.

Apr 1, 2011 by

The art world is deeply superstitious. Especially about numerology. Especially when state institutions are at the helm. And so the Neue Nationalgalerie contrives to honour Heinrich von Kleist's death (not his work!). Through August 14.

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