What is the meaning of life?
By Daniel Urban
Liv Schulman’s video work L’Obstruction tells of unfulfilled desires and the search for the meaning of life. And asks why we are alone after all.
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Babies straight off the assembly line
By Katharina Knacker
Babies straight off the assembly line? Only with Bruno Gironcoli. But we also know about of other manlike machines in the artworld.
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Gangster dogs and shady crocodiles
By Marie Sophie Beckmann
In the animations of Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, animals become human and humans become animals. Literally.
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Visiting Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock
By Ilka Voermann
For a long time, Lee Krasner lived together with Jackson Pollock in the modest area of Springs, East Hampton. Curator Ilka Voermann travelled to their common house, which still radiates a wondrous feeling of calm.
Interview
It always starts with an idea
By Kathi Kæppel
About the freedom of art and how ideas turn into artworks. Artist duo Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg on the production of their hypnotic, animated worlds.
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The steakhouse also serves fish
By Matthias Ulrich
Andy Warhol vacuuming, a chief rattling dishes in Chinatown and a “quick” reunion at the steakhouse. Curator Matthias Ulrich on tour in New York.
Video Art
Invulnerable bodies
By Daniel Urban
Embedded in a poetic imagery, three spiritual healers from Brazil talk about their beliefs and practices in Mario Pfeifer's video work “Corpo Fechado”.
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The Who’s Who of the Viennese Avant-Garde
By Rebecca Herlemann
Until the 1970s, the Galerie nächst St. Stephan was considered the central venue of the artistic avant-garde in Vienna. It was also here that Bruno Gironcoli celebrated his first successes.
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Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg
By Schirn Magazin
The encounter with the films of Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg has something of a seduction — they immediately attract the viewer into colorful worlds, accompanied by hypnotic music.
Video Art
“I’m with you. And we’re being eaten by words.”
By Daniel Urban
A distorted voice, half human, half machine, guides through Pedro Barateiro’s film “The Opening Monologue” and ponders the meaning of language.
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Visiting Mark Dion’s cabinet of wonders
By Natalie Wichmann
What does a polar bear on the heater and a crocodile on the ceiling? For a cup of tea in artist Mark Dion’s cabinet of wonders in New York.
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Visiting Mark Dion’s cabinet of wonders - Part 2
By Natalie Wichmann
For decades, Mark Dion has created a collection of miraculous finds. We were allowed to enter his home cabinet of curiosities and made all sorts of discoveries.
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From colonialism to democracy
By Natascha Meuser
From living trophy collections through museums with living exhibits to theme parks. An overview of the architectural history of the zoo.
Interview
The wilderness is on your doorstep
By Katharina Cichosch
What exactly is wilderness and can you also find it in Germany? Wilderness consultant Manuel Schweiger about nature protection, discovery trails and primeval beetles.
Interview
“I won’t prostitute myself for the audience”
By Florentin Schumacher
But then of course he’s an actor. For at least as long Lars Eidinger has also been a DJ.