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Wrinkles in Time
When we think of folds and creases, we usually think of a common everyday phenomenon. However, scientists, mathematicians and philosophers also spend much of their time thinking about how and why material folds and how these processes can be...
Blow Up
The photo gallery C/O Berlin was founded in 2000 with private funds, and since then, has made a name for itself with a vibrant cultural programme of international standing. This includes 89 photo exhibitions in just 13 years, a multifaceted...
BILD Your Own Nation
Whenever a new editor was hired by the Axel Springer Verlag in the 1950s, he or she had to pledge to “promote the reconciliation between Jews and Germans” and “support the Israeli people’s right to exist.” Ten years after the Holocaust, Axel Springer...
Absalon
Der israelische Künstler Absalon, 1993 im Alter von nur 28 Jahren verstorben, schuf in wenigen Lebensjahren ein Werk von außerordentlicher Komplexität und ungewöhnlicher Geschlossenheit, das das KW Institute for Comtemporary Art erstmals in einer...
Aryanization in Leipzig
Die Ausstellung zeigte am Beispiel Leipzigs - der ehemaligen deutschen Handels- und Buchmetropole mit großer jüdischer Tradition in Kultur und Wirtschaft -, wie das NS-Programm der "Arisierung", das zur Ausgrenzung und Existenzvernichtung der...
For the Time Being. Wall Paintings Painted Walls
1968 entwarf der amerikanische Architekt Philip Johnson mit der Kunsthalle Bielefeld den ersten Museumsneubau im Nachkriegsdeutschland. Als wichtiges Gestaltungsmerkmal setzte er zahlreiche, allseits freistehende Wände ein und bewirkte damit, dass...
Radically modern
The Berlin Philharmonic, the New National Gallery, Märkisches Viertel, the Centrum department store – buildings which give Berlin its distinctive look. The Berlinische Galerie has organised a multimedia exhibition on 1960s architecture in East and...
The other view
Germany commemorated the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 2011. This exhibition presented a collection of yet unreleased photos of its early construction phase from the perspective of East Berlin. It included numerous...
Lucian Freud and the Animal
Lucian Freud is considered one of the most influential portrait painters of the 20th century. His overwhelmingly large-format nudes have garnered him the nickname “painter of the flesh”. Lucian Freud received the Rubens Prize from the city of Siegen...
Taking Stock of Power
In Germany’s collective memory, the Berlin Wall stands immortalised in its final form, either as a sterile, white-washed concrete barrier or a colourful, graffiti-sprayed wall winding through the city. The photographer Arwed Messmer and the writer...