10 SCHIRN Tips in Los Angeles
By Martina Weinhart
Off on holiday! The SCHIRN MAG has explored the most beautiful destinations. Schirn Curator Martina Weinhart was in L.A. searching for hidden street art and old movie palaces.
Markus Farr
Summer Soundtrack
By Markus Farr
Just get out there – no map, no compass, out in the wilderness! Make sure to pack the SCHIRN summer soundtrack featuring songs evoking wanderlust and the centuries-old fascination for untouched nature and distant lands.
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Sebastian Herkner
By Markus Wölfelschneider (Text), Neven Allgeier (Fotos)
Product designer Sebastian Herkner has earned an international reputation with furniture and home accessories. A studio visit in Offenbach.
Summer with
Summer with Ayşe Erkmen
By Philipp Hindahl (Text), Jan Buchczik (Illustration)
There is no season quite so connected with longings, expectations and memories as is summer. We met artists to talk about their favorite summer moments. Ayşe Erkmen remembers spending the warm months in an old greek...
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10 Facts about the SCHIRN
By Laura Heeg
Frankfurt has a new old town and the SCHIRN is located right at the heart of it – since 1986. But: What does the SCHIRN have to do with sausage stalls? And what did the neighborhood formerly look like?
Video Art
A spectacle of the grotesque
By Daniel Urban
What’s a dream and what’s reality? The films of Pauline Curnier Jardin show a disturbing and dystopic world speaking from fear, nightmares and superstition.
Summer with
Summer with Peter Saul
By Philipp Hindahl (Text), Jan Buchczik (Illustration)
There is no season quite so connected with longings, expectations and memories as is summer. At the same time, everybody spends the warmer months differently. We met up with artists to talk to them about this very...
10 things
10 (foot)balls in art
By Antonia Lagemann
As of June 14 TV screens will overheat, fridges be stocked with beer, and public viewing events from living rooms to corner kiosks will ensure a busy after-work schedule.
SCHIRN Tip
10 Schirn tips in Lisbon
By Elisabeth Pallentin
Off on holiday! The SCHIRN MAG has explored the most beautiful destinations, hunting for exhibitions worth visiting, the best photo opportunity or the only authentic Pastéis de nata. Which you will of course only find in...
Summer with
Summer with Katja Novitskova
By Philipp Hindahl (Text), Jan Buchczik (Illustration)
There is no season quite so connected with longings, expectations and memories as is summer. At the same time, everybody spends the warmer months differently. We met up with artists to talk to them about this very...
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Searching for the king of the animals
By Ilka Voermann
Curator Ilka Voermann is currently preparing the exhibition “King of the Animals. Wilhelm Kuhnert and the Image of Africa”. Therefore, she travelled to Texas and the Rocky Mountains, to rather unusual locations.
Interview
Exploring the iceberg
By Carina Bukuts
In her works, the artist Grada Kilomba deals with the post-colonial condition, trauma and memory. Schirn Mag spoke to her about aspects of the unconscious in the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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New strategies for political art – Part II
By Lisa Beißwanger
Following the first article on political art, Part II deals with sit-ins, political posters and other forms of protest in art from 1968 until today.
Interview
PHYLLIDA BARLOW
Video Art
Breaking through the fourth wall
By Daniel Urban
The filmer becomes the filmed: In his video works the artist Hamza Halloubi continously transforms the observer’s perspective.