Visual Arts

Boris Groys; © privat

“There are no longer any real elites”: An Interview with Cultural Boris Groys

Everybody talks about elites – because they no longer exist. Of that, Boris Groys is convinced. With Goethe.de, he talked about the elitist omnipotence of money and the powerlessness of philosophers.More ...
Your Uncertain Shadow (color), 2010. Halogen lamps, glass, aluminum,
variable dimensions | Photo: Jens Ziehe. Courtesy the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York © 2010 Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson: The Miracles Happens in the Eye

At the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, Olafur Eliasson has set in motion a visual arsenal of dissimulation, fog actions and space modulations.More ...
Neo Rauch | Die Vorführung, 2006, oil on canvas, 300 x 420 cm, Rubell Family Collection, Miami. PHOTO: UWE WALTER, COURTESY GALERIE EIGEN + ART, BERLIN AND DAVID ZWIRNER, NEW YORK © VG BILD-KUNST, BONN 2011

“Companions” – Celebrating Neo Rauch’s 50th Birthday

A major double exhibition in Neo Rauch’s home city of Leipzig and in Munich celebrates the painter’s 50th birthday and shows how his paintings have changed.More ...
Terence Koh: Snow White, 2008. Installation of 222 fluorescent tubes, Chrysanths of porcelain, coffin made of mirror glass
Installation view Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Photo: Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf

“Collecting Forward” – The Julia Stoschek Collection

Julia Stoschek started collecting videos only as recently as 2004. In the meantime her collection has grown to about 400 videos. In Düsseldorf she has remodeled a closed-down building of a picture-frame company into an exhibition space.More ...

Visual Arts in Germany

Articles and Links on Selected Topics

Artists’ Houses

Overview of this form of support for artists in Germany