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Critical Land. Perspectives on Climate Change

By Sylvia Cunningham

She is a leader of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, one of the few self-governing First Nations in Canada. Researcher Jocelyn Joe-Strack on...
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Critical Land. Language as a Tool for Change

By Sylvia Cunningham

In the final episode of the podcast series featuring Indigenous perspectives on art, nature and decolonization, Cree writer Jessica Johns talks about...
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Critical Land. Indigenous Art and Identity

By Sylvia Cunningham

In our new podcast series with Indigenous perspectives on art, nature, decolonisation and climate change, we talk with Algonquin-French artist...
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Critical Land. The Myth of Untouched Nature

By Sylvia Cunningham

An interview with Lakota-Scottish art historian Carmen Robertson on Land vs Landscape. The first episode of our new podcast series with Indigenous...

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From studio to dining table: Marina Abramović

By Julia Keller

Are artists particularly creative when it comes to cooking? We take a look around the kitchens of the art world, this time with six ingredients from...
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Now at the SCHIRN: MARC CHAGALL

By Schirn Magazin

There seems to be no limit to fantasy in the oeuvre of Marc Chagall (1887–1985). He is regarded as one of the most idiosyncratic artists of modernity....
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News from the fringes of Indian society

By Luise Leyer

Khabar Lahariya is a video-first rural digital newsroom run by a team of Dalit-led, but also Muslim, also OBC, also upper-caste women. In their...
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Around the World with Rondinone

By Maja Lisewski

Magical mountains, rainbows and suns: Like few other artists, Ugo Rondinone somehow manages to bring everyday life to a halt with his simple, yet...
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ART FOR NO ONE

By Schirn Magazin

The exhibition ART FOR NO ONE. 1933–1945 presents works by artists who worked outside of the regime and remained without an audience.
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WALK! The act of walking in art

By Schirn Magazin

The upcoming exhibition WALK! presents an overview of contemporary art that intertwines walking with the challenges of our time.

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Reconquering the Female Body

By Jovana Reisinger

An act against the macho eye: Author Jovana Reisinger on naked female bodies in painting.

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From studio to dining table: Carsten Höller

By Julia Keller

Are artists particularly creative when it comes to cooking? We take a look around the kitchens of the art world, this time with Carsten Höller and his...
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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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The Black (W)hole, and What It Means to Me

By Kara Walker

Kara Walker’s very personal introduction to her exhibition, which opens at the SCHIRN in October. With over 650 drawings, snippets, notes, fragments,...
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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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Introduction to the current exhibitions

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Art to hear: #PoliceProblem. A podcast series by Mohamed Amjahid

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For the exhibition LYONEL FEININGER. RETROSPECTIVE

Video Interview

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Exciting insights into the topics of the exhibitions

CHAGALL

To the Other End of Colors

ART FOR NO ONE

Artists in the year 1933 to 1945

Kara Walker

The cosmos of a virtuoso artist

Magnetic North

Stunning landscape painting

Fantastic Women

Women artists of surrealism

Joan Miró

Painting Walls, Painting Worlds

Lee Krasner

The icon of abstract painting

Basquiat

Arrival of a comet

Splendor & Misery

Art in the Weimar Republic

Magritte

The magician among artists

SHORTCUTS

The shortest way to more knowledge about art

Painting power

Surrealism

Abstact Art

Artist couples

Conceptual Art

Humans and machines

Wilderness

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DOUBLE FEATURE

Current trends in video art

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A place of silence and weapons

By Daniel Urban

The Brazilian artist Igor Vidor knows the effects of German arms deliveries from personal experience. In his video work “A Praga” (2020), he confronts...
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The mothers’ tongue

By Daniel Urban

How do we acquire language? In her filmic oeuvre Eva Giolo explores the acquired use of language with an explicitly feminine interpretation.
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Takbir – the story of a call

By Daniel Urban

With his video work “Takbir”, artist Aziz Hazara spans the recent history of Afghanistan. Here, he focuses on the call “Allāhu Akbar” with its variety...
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How should I address you? About queerness in German TV

By Daniel Urban

Philipp Gufler's video work “Lana Kaiser” is a tribute to the DSDS star Daniel Küblböck, but at the same time it offers a complex discourse on the...
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In search of eternal beauty

By Daniel Urban

"Forever young - no matter how!" - In her video work, Jovana Reisinger sends three perfectly styled young people in search of a fountain that promises...
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History between sound and body

By Mearg Negusse

In his video work "The Day I Stopped Kissing My Father," artist James Gregory Atkinson makes a black cock walk through the Adam Strohm Hall of the...
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At the mercy of waiting

By Daniel Urban

Artist Bani Abidi is dedicated to the dark absurdities of everyday life. In her video work "The Distance from Here" bureaucracy takes over and waiting...
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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...
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“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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The little art ABC for children from 3 years old

The snake and the circle

The Frog and the triangle

The Gorilla and the square

MINISCHIRN

MINISCHIRN FOR HOMIES

Discover the wonderful world of the MINISCHIRNIS!

DIY FOR HOME

Exciting ideas for children workshops

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DIY OFFERINGS FOR KIDS

SCHIRN STUDIO FOR HOMIES IV

Creatures of Chance

DIY OFFERINGS FOR KIDS

SCHIRN STUDIO FOR HOMIES VI

DIY OFFER FOR KIDS

MAGICAL AURORAS

Fascinating natural phenomenon

DIY IDEA FOR KIDS

SCHIRN STUDIO FOR HOMIES III

Branching out fantastically

SECRET MESSAGES

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MINISCHIRN FOR HOMIES

Discover the wonderful world of the MINISCHIRNIS!

DIY FOR KIDS

SCHIRN STUDIO FOR HOMIES V

DIY OFFERINGS FOR KIDS

DEEP IN THE WOODS

Autumn forest view