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Carsten Nicolai
In the 19th century, Chemnitz was one of the most important textile-producing cities in Germany. Its factories were some of the first to install Jacquard looms which are controlled with punched cards. The French silk weaver Joseph-Marie Jacquard had...
Counting in Eight, Moving by Colour
When the Californian artist Channa Horwitz passed away in 2013 at the age of 81, she had just begun her artistic career. She had worked in complete seclusion for years before a presentation of her works at the exhibition MADE IN L.A. one year before...
Christoph Schlingensief
This exhibition was the first attempt to present Christoph Schlingensief’s complete works. His radical nature, his obsessive need to go to extremes and his excessive demands on everyone involved in his work have carved Schlingensief a special place...
No Firm Ground
Vilém Flusser (1920– 1991) is one of the outstanding art and media philosophers of the 20th century. Many of his texts foresaw the future of technology-based communication and networking. Today his works are inspiring; Flusser was convinced that...
Black Mountain
Im Bestand der Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin befinden sich zwei Werke von Robert Rauschenberg und Cy Twombly, die beide 1951/52 am Black Mountain College entstanden sind. Diese Werke bildeten den Ausgangspunkt einer Ausstellung über...
Picture Machines
This exhibition presented current artistic positions in combination with media-archaeological exhibits. Its premise was based on the observation that contemporary artists often refer to historic media to reflect on the conditions of modern-day...
Bauhaus in Calcutta. An Encounter of cosmopolitian Avant-Gardes
In 1922, the Society of Oriental Art in Calcutta hosted an exhibition of the international avant-garde. The invited artists included numerous Bauhaus masters, such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten and Wassily Kandinsky, as well as...
Black Paris - Black Brussels
Paris, once the capital of a colonial world power, has now become one of the largest African enclaves in Europe. As a city compressed spatially and temporally and often the centre of discussion, Paris is ideal for investigating the cultural processes...
The Picture Chamber of Bruno Schulz – The last work of a genius
After the German army marched into Galicia, the Jewish-Polish writer and painter Bruno Schulz was forced to move to the ghetto of Drohobych. The SS Chief Squad Leader Felix Landau ordered Schulz to entertain his children by painting frescos in the...
Pina Bausch
Pina Bausch gilt als eine der wichtigsten Choreografinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts und als bedeutendste Tänzerpersönlichkeit, die Deutschland je hervorgebracht hat. Der Tod von Pina Bausch im Jahr 2009 bedeutete für die Geschichte des deutschen...