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...Under the Swastika
Nazi forced labour has been the subject of increasingly public attention in recent years. In most cases, news reports and research have focused on the forced labour used by larger companies. However, very little is known about how forced labour was...
Origins of the Silk Road
Die Ausstellung gab anhand von etwa 180 außergewöhnlich gut erhaltenen Funden aus Gräbern der Wüste Taklamakan im äußersten Westen der Volksrepublik China Zeugnis eines historisch beispiellosen Kulturtransfers von Zentralasien bis in den...
Vivarium and / or Mobile Naturalization Aid for Aliens on the Go!
Environmental debate concerning how best to deal with animals and plants in cities have much in common with the socio-political discourse regarding immigration. Terms, such as "alien species" and "biological invasion", suggest there is war raging in...
Thermostat
The project Thermostat invited twelve German Kunstvereine [art associations] and twelve French centres d’art [art centres] to collaborate on ca. 30 joint exhibitions and events for presentation in both countries from June 2010 to April 2011. Although...
Travesty for Advanced Performers
Collective social identities often develop through the exclusion of unconventional values. Rallying calls to preserve unique characteristics and traditions prove effective time and again with the result that changes or deviations from the norm are...
The Politics and Pleasures of Food
Life revolves around the food. Eating is an essential part of every human culture, an expression of ideologies and social relationships, the state of development and decline of a civilisation. The food scandals in recent years, bio-piracy and...
Things to come
The science-fiction genre was experiencing a new surge in popularity. A large number of high-budget science-fiction movies hit it big at the box office in 2013 and 2014. At the same time, however, many areas of contemporary society seem to moving in...
On Dilettantism
The meaning of “dilettante” has undergone significant change over the centuries. Originally it described an untrained artist, a lover of the fine arts or a scientific amateur, who passionately, albeit inexpertly, pursued an interest for pleasure...
Transparencies
The globalised world appears both transparent and opaque at the same time. On one hand, modern life is characterised by the desire for more transparency, for example, in politics. Yet on the other, people constantly lament the loss of privacy as a...
Tobias Rehberger
Tobias Rehberger, a resident of Frankfurt am Main, is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His works, for which he has received awards around the world, have been presented in solo exhibitions in Europe, Asia and...