Visual Arts

The Folkwang Museum in Essen is showing a retrospective of the video artist Aernout Mik. In his works of the past ten years, he has dealt with the political and psycho-social state of society.More ...

What do Thonet chairs, Braun appliances or new designer fashions from Berlin reveal about Germans’ view of the world? Is there a specifically German type of design, and if so, what distinguishes it? Joana Breidenbach, an ethnologist and cultural studies expert, in an interview with Goethe.de.More ...

C/O Berlin presents over 120 early works by one of the most remarkable photographers who practiced in East Germany: Gundula Schulze Eldowy.More ...

In her photographs of interiors and discarded technical parts, Beate Gütschow recapitulates pictorial strategies. In the Braunschweig Museum for Photography she is showing this new series of works.More ...

The Berlin Biennale will take place in 2012 for the seventh time. Not only its political program builds on previous editions.More ...

An exhibition at the Dresden Kunsthaus explores how artists stand with respect to knowledge and truth.More ...

How, and how far, can art and science profit from one another – especially in respect to a phenomenon such as climate change? A new book finds some surprising answers.More ...