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Déjà-vu? The Art of Reproduction from Dürer to YouTube
What relationship does the copy have with its original? How important is authenticity and what role does forgery play? As digital media has developed over the years, the function and aesthetic value of reproductions and copies have become...
Thicker Than Water
The family has always been the focus of social debates and has served time and again as a projection surface for the values and conflicts of every generation. Since the 68er movement, entire generations have fought against outdated traditions and...
The Sting of the Scorpion
The film “L’Age d’Or” (1930) by the surrealist Luis Buñuel was a pioneering work which prepared the way for the integration of film into the fine arts. The film contains various scenes which criticize civil society and its double standards. The...
The Yellow Permit. Girl trafficking from 1860 to 1930
Human trafficking and forced prostitution are highly topical issues which have a long tradition. International girl trafficking, as it was called at the end of 19th century, became increasingly prevalent with the rising wave of Eastern European...
Flip-book films
Flip-books allow one to experience movie magic close-up - the images begin to move as one flips through the pages of the book. The Kunsthalle Düsseldorf will show how a variety of artists - from Jean Luc Godard to Keith Haring - deal with this...
Continental Drift. Canadian Concept Art of the 1960s and 1970s
"Continental Drift" was an extensive project by the Badischer Kunstverein which presented Concept Art from Canada between the art-historically relevant years of 1965 and 1980. The exhibition featured over 100 artists, such as Ken Lum, Jeff Wall, Ian...
Common Grounds
This exhibition was the first in Munich to present a wide spectrum of artistic works by contemporary artists from the Middle East. News coverage from the region in Western media is generally dominated either by conflicts in public space or images of...
Nineteen Thirty-Eight. Art – Artist – Politics
In November 2013, Germany marked the 75th anniversary of the Pogrom Night of 1938 when the National Socialists had succeeded in “Aryanising” practically all artistic areas in the Third Reich. The Fritz Bauer Institute wanted to use this occasion to...
Endangered Paradise
Colour photography became popular even before World War I. Along with Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, the photo artist Heinrich Kühn was one of the first pioneers of photography in Germany. Together they experimented with the autochrome...
Colossal
Wo genau die Varusschlacht im Teutoburger Wald stattgefunden hat, ist bis heute nicht mit letzter Sicherheit zu bestimmen. Im Laufe der Zeit wurden Hunderte von Orten als mögliche Schlachtfelder benannt. Zur 2000-Jahrfeier des historischen...
