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Who's on the line? Call for free!
In every large city, there are call shops where people can make telephone calls cheaply. From the sound of their voices and excited gesturing, one can only guess at the dramatic events the customers in the booths are describing to friends and...
Goods and Knowledge
The three 19th-century villas of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt contain 67,000 ethnological artefacts, 120,000 photographs and 50,000 books. Based on the motto “Trading Perceptions – Wahrnehmungen verhandeln”, the museum plans to reorganize its...
Water Street Rail Air
Traffic and mobility were the central themes in this exhibition at the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen. It documented 200 years of transportation history in the region of Lake Constance and illustrated how the initial enthusiasm for innovations in...
Wild Sky
This exhibition featured artistic photography, videos and installations which deal with the phenomena and the study of the sky. The wish to understand and depict our solar system, the stars and celestial events is as old as humankind itself. Yet...
Wael Shawky
In his three-part video project “Cabaret Crusades”, the Egyptian artist Wael Shawky reveals the legacy of the medieval Christian crusades in the Arabic world today. Handmade puppets re-enact events of the 11 th and 12 th century – a controversial...
Walden # 3 or The Child as a Medium
Ästhetische Bildung von Kindern und Jugendlichen gilt als eine der großen kulturellen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart. Zur Tagung über die Geschichte der Konzepte zur ästhetischen Bildung - von H. D. Thoreaus Utopie "Walden" aus der Mitte des 19....
Underground
All that lies beneath the earth is mysterious, strange and ambivalent to us. Sometimes we associate it with something menacing, at other times with security and shelter. Using works of art – literature, painting, photography, videos and installations...
Armed and Dangerous
Design is a rarely mentioned, but significant aspect of weapons. Guns as designed products were the theme of an exhibition at the Frankfurt Museum Angewandte Kunst. What made this exhibition unique was how it presented the close connection between...
The Beast is the Sovereign
How do processes of profanation work? What happens when they are consciously shaped? Things become profane when they are taken out of their religious context and used in a way that ignores or contradicts their sacredness, thus appearing...
Unseen and Unheard
The Prinzhorn Collection is famous for its psychiatry-related artworks which date back to the mid-19th century. Regarded as a model for similar collections, the Prinzhorn Collection has undertaken pioneering steps in the examination and study of what...