Visual Arts

Rineke Dijkstra: “The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK / Mysteryworld, Zaandam”, NL, 1996/97, still, 1-channel video installation (color, sound), 26‘ 40“ | Courtesy Sammlung Goetz

Museums and Private Art Collections – A Question of Relationships?

Many private art collectors like to display their holdings in their own buildings. But recent examples show that their interest in cooperation with public museums is growing.More ...
Otto Dix in front of his house in Hemmenhofen, 1961 | photo: Hannes Kilian @ Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg/Sammlung Kilian

Trust Your Eyes – Otto Dix

His motto was “Trust your eyes”. Otto Dix, one of the great loners of twentieth century art, would have celebrated his 120th birthday in December 2011. An occasion for an unbiased assessment.More ...
Julius Popp, Bit.fall, 2001–06, Courtesy Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, photo: François Doury, Paris

“The Art of Deceleration” at the Home of the Volkswagen, in Wolfsburg

In a flurry of major works of modern and contemporary art, this show asks: Don’t we need to slow down?More ...
Beate Gütschow | photo: private

Things Don’t Speak for Themselves – Beate Gütschow

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 ...
Bettina Ellerkamp and Jörg Heitmann “killer.berlin.doc” | Photo/©: home productions GmbH

Criss and Sometimes Cross:
Cross-Media

Cross-media today means the symbiosis of TV stations with the Internet and projects that implement the inherent possibilities of the Net in interactive and participatory forms.More ...
Stephan Balkenhol in front of his sculpture ‘Big Female Portrait’ (2005); Cop: picture-alliance/ dpa

Sculpture in Germany

Unlike any other branch in the visual arts sculpture makes the most immediate and vivid impression on the observer.More ...
Markus Lüpertz: untitled, 2005, colour etching, plate: 70 x 50 cm, paper: 93,5 x 69,5 cm, edition 22. Courtesy of Galerie Sabine Knust, München

Graphic Art in Germany

Germany is regarded as the cradle of graphic arts. Albrecht Dürer, the Bauhaus artists, or today's Georg Baselitz, but also the countless pieces of commercial art of everyday life convey an idea of the great variety of this kind of art.More ...

The Boom in German Photography

The photo scene in Germany has for some time been one of the most varied and lively in Europe. That is reflected both in the fact that the work of German photographers is on display at leading exhibition halls around the world, and in their market value in international art markets.More ...

Comics in German   deutschenglishespañolnederlandsdansknorsk日本語portuguêsfrancais

Infos on Comics in German, portraits of artists, suggested literature

Graphic Novels Germany-Canada   deutschenglishfrançais

Artist profiles, background and links on German and Canadian graphic novels
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