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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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Mysterious Messages and the Charm of the Everyday
By Elena Schmidt
Paula 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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The Self-Portrait Experiment
By Lisa Maria Pregitzer
Self-portraits offered Paula Modersohn-Becker space for artistic experimentation with form, color and technique. We took a closer look at how she...
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How Germany is in Denial of its Historical Racism Today
By Nelly Y. Pinkrah
Is it possible to talk about an ordinary German experience as a structurally racialized experience? Activist and cultural theorist Nelly Y. Pinkrah on...
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The First Urban Flight
By Anna Huber
Lebensreform, freedom and rural idyll: Paula Modersohn-Becker was not the only one to live in one of the rural art colonies that sprang up throughout...
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Only what may speak makes it into the archive
By Maximilian Wahlich
What makes an archive? At the SCHIRN, Kara Walker shows her personal work in progress in the form of over 600 drawings from the past 30 years.
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Emerging from Anonymity
By Dagara Dakin
In 2019, an exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay put Black models in the spotlight of art (history). Dagara Dakin explains why it was so important to...
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How Franz Fanon Has Influenced Generations of Queer Artists
By Will Furtado
Will Furtado is inspired by Franz Fanon’s “Black Skin, White Masks” and writes about how the book went on to influence intergenerational Black queer...
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Artistic Freedom Despite Marriage
By Anna Huber
At the beginning of the 20th century, bourgeois marriage was considered the ideal. Paula Modersohn-Becker and Charlotte Berend-Corinth are rare...