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Sounds from the Studio
By Octavia Bürgel
What would Kara Walker listen to? A very special exhibition soundtrack by her daughter, writer and artist Octavia Bürgel.
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Call Me By My Name
By Elena Schmidt
Why do artists sign their works? And since when? We took a look at the history of the signature!
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Raven Leilani breaks the boundaries between identity and history
By Ann Mbuti
Must-Read: What Raven Leilani’s debut novel, Luster, has to do with us and Kara Walker’s art.
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2022 at the Schirn
From walking in art, to "ART FOR NO ONE", to the major CHAGALL exhibition. The exhibition preview 2022
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Obsessed with Animals!
By Elena Schmidt
Artists have always captured the close relationship with their pets and staged the relationship between humans and animals. Our Top 10!
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Stories around the current exhibitions
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Call Me By My Name
By Elena Schmidt
Why do artists sign their works? And since when? We took a look at the history of the signature!
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Raven Leilani breaks the boundaries between identity and history
By Ann Mbuti
Must-Read: What Raven Leilani’s debut novel, Luster, has to do with us and Kara Walker’s art.
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2022 at the Schirn
From walking in art, to "ART FOR NO ONE", to the major CHAGALL exhibition. The exhibition preview 2022
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Obsessed with Animals!
By Elena Schmidt
Artists have always captured the close relationship with their pets and staged the relationship between humans and animals. Our Top 10!
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From walking in art, to "ART FOR NO ONE", to the major CHAGALL exhibition. The exhibition preview 2022
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ContextMysterious Messages and the Charm of the Everyday
By Elena SchmidtPaula Modersohn-Becker is an icon of art history. When she died at the age of only 31, she left behind an extensive and sometimes enigmatic body of...
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InterviewMother, nude!
By Natalie WichmannBirth is a rare motif in art, especially explicit depictions. An interview with queer feminist artist Clarity Haynes, who challenges conventions of...
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By Elena SchmidtArtists have always captured the close relationship with their pets and staged the relationship between humans and animals. Our Top 10!
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InterviewThe Private Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker
By Julia SchmitzAt first it was only the artist’s thoughts that could be read in letters and her diary. Then Otto Modersohn’s letters and diary entries came to light....
Interviews
With artists, experts and creatives
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Mother, nude!
By Natalie Wichmann
Birth is a rare motif in art, especially explicit depictions. An interview with queer feminist artist Clarity Haynes, who challenges conventions of...
Interview
Motherhood and Art. A Somewhat Different Monument
By Natalie Wichmann
Apart from depictions of the Madonna with child, mothers are rare pictorial motifs in art. An interview with artist Najja Moon, who has erected a...
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Motherhood and art. Where is the Solidarity?
By Natalie Wichmann
Motherhood has always been a taboo in art history. But why, actually? An interview with conceptual artist Hannah Cooke, who questions the systems,...
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Black is not a Color
By Eric Otieno Sumba
In a film series, Oliver Hardt combines the themes from Kara Walker’s work with the perspectives of Black people in Germany. In conversation with...
WHAT'S COOKING?
From studio to dining table
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What's cooking?
From Studio to Dining Table: The Christmas Edition (Part 2)
By Julia Keller
Too good to eat (almost): Five cookies inspired by five artists!
What's cooking?
From Studio to Dining Table: The Christmas Edition (Part 1)
By Julia Keller
Too good to eat (almost): Five cookies inspired by five artists!
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From Studio to Dining Table: Daniel Spoerri
By Julia Keller
Are artists particularly creative when it comes to cooking? A look into the kitchens of the art world. This time with a little ABC of the Eat Art...
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Let’s eat! 7 museum cafes we love
By Katharina Cichosch
Looking at art while hungry is never a good idea: these museum cafés are a particularly good place to linger.
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Art and the scene
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Must-Read: On childhood, motherhood, love and politics
By Juliet Jacques
Suzanna Slack writes personal texts about central issues in our society. In the process, Slack creates a very unique, instructive genre between prose,...
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Lil Nas X is teaching the world to embrace its multiplicity
By Will Furtado
Lil Nas X’s masterful use of the internet shows how to fight discrimination with astuteness, queerness and art historical references.
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The Art of Vaccination
By Elena Schmidt
In an age of alternative facts and fake news, how can a work of art possibly be more convincing than a scientific report? These 10 artworks focus on...
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Torrey Peters and Contemporary Trans Literature
By Juliet Jacques
How Torrey Peters’ much-discussed book “Detransition, Baby” can bridge the gap between underground and mainstream, and why it matters.
Video Art
Trends in contemporary film and video art
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Video Art
From Small to Big
By Daniel Urban
Countless parts, robbed of their individuality, merge into a new whole — Thomas Bayrle’s video works are reminiscent of woven products that only take...
Video Art
“Please don’t make a film about Godard!”
By Daniel Urban
A film about filmmaking sounds a bit meta. But Kristina Kilian’s video work takes us on a ghostly journey through Godard’s Germany after the fall of...
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How do we Remember?
By Daniel Urban
In which places does history become visible? And what do we remember at all? Maya Schweizer begins her search for clues in the sewers and slowly feels...
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These movies will never get old
By Daniel Urban
For all movie geeks and those who would like to become one: Film highlights from eight years of DOUBLE FEATURE at the SCHIRN.
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Artist Talk Ed Fornieles
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Artist Talk Monira al Qadiri
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Artist Talk Bjørn Melhus
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