Visual Arts

Mangas at the Medien@age in Dresden | photo: © Verena Hütter

Imports beat exports: the comic market in Germany

Foreign works predominate in the German comic and manga scene. But native authors and artists are increasing in significance.More ...
Room view, The Divided Sky. The Collection, The New National Gallery; Copyright: © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; photo: Roman März

“The Divided Sky” – A Look into the Depots of the New National Gallery in Berlin

The New National Gallery in Berlin is examining its holdings, looking into its depots, and asking how its planned permanent exhibition will go towards forming the canon.More ...
Debbie Groben: “Dramatic Chipmunk” | Photo/©: Debbie Groben / FreakingNews.com

When Media Become “Social”: Social Media

Within a century, the medial availability of the means of production and distribution has swelled into a mass phenomenon.More ...
Marli Hoppe-Ritter | © Museum Ritter

About the Square – The Art Collection of Marli Hoppe-Ritter

In the Ritter Collection everything is about the square. The works are on display in a museum in Swabian Waldenbuch – a museum with, of course, a quadratic layout.More ...
Artur Żmijewski, Curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art | Photo: Zofia Waslicka

Right or left, Mr. Artist? – Interview with Artur Żmijewski, curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale

At the open call for the 7th Berlin Biennale, artists were asked for their political views, curator Artur Żmijewski explains why. And we start an open call for the open call and ask you for your opinions!More ...
Olafur Eliasson: Your blind movement, 2010; Fluorescent lights, aluminium, steel, fog machine, wood, foil / Dimensions variable; Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson; Courtesy the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York | © 2010 Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson Turns Museums into Inspiring Laboratories

The artist Olafur Eliasson has caused quite a stir internationally with his increasingly complex and striking constructions. At the “Institut für Raumexperimente”, he is now also putting a model for art education to the test.More ...
Timm Ulrichs: Betreten der Ausstellung verboten (i.e., Do Not Enter the Exhibition), 1968/69, Sprengel Museum, Hanover | © VG Bildkunst Bonn, 2011; photo: Herling/Gwose

Timm Ulrichs – Do Not Enter the Exhibition!

The Sprengel Museum and the Kunstverein have devoted a double exhibition to the conceptual artist Timm Ulrichs in his hometown of Hanover.More ...
Lagos, Detective Spears

“Afropolis. City – Media –Art” at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne

With “Afropolis“, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne has set a course: an ethnological museum opens itself to current global processes of urbanisation and artistic intervention.More ...
Michael Sailstorfer: Rocket Tree (Raketenbaum), 2008, diptych, diasec on aluminium, museum glass; Hennecke Collection, Berlin, Germany | © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2011; photo: Achim Kukulies

Rebellious Promise – Michael Sailstorfer in Hanover

Once again Michael Sailstorfer impresses the viewer with a sculptural arsenal of natural and motorised elements, smell and noise, melancholy and allegory.More ...
Abbas Kiarostami: Filmstill from „Shirin“, 2008

Future and Tradition. Exhibition in the Munich House of Art

Exactly 100 years after the exhibition ‘Masterpieces if Mohammedan Art’, the Munich House of Art brings ‘classics’ of Islamic art face to face with contemporary Arabic artistic positions.More ...
© Horinouchi Takeshi

What Do Robots Have to Say to Each Other about Art? – The ISEA2010 RUHR

What is electronic art? Where does it stand technically, aesthetically and in terms of content? The 16th “International Symposium on Electronic Art” (ISEA) provided guideposts.More ...

Berlin – Capital of the personal vein

Mayor Klaus Wowereit says Berlin is “poor, but sexy.” A description that also fits the essence of the comics scene in the German capital very well.More ...