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 ...
Peter Piller: “Kraft” (Kraft), 2010, series of 40 slides | Courtesy Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer © Peter Piller: VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2011

Peter Piller: The Abnormal in the Normal

Peter Piller draws, writes texts, photographs and collects. Recently, his own photos have also been incorporated into the Peter Piller Archive, as an exhibition at the Brunswick Art Society shows.More ...
Christina Kubisch, Licht Himmel, Klang- und Lichtinstallation, Gasometer Oberhausen, 2006, Foto: Wolfgang Volz

Media Art Cannot Be Pigeonholed

Art created with and in new media is diverse and almost invariably relies on interaction. A look into the studios of a few contemporary German media artists.More ...

    Artists’ Houses   deutschenglish

    Overview of this form of support for artists in Germany

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    Calendar
    Pierre Bismuth, Antonia, Hirsch, Jonathan Monk, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Ignacio Uriarte
    Ludlow 38
    New York
    Printed Matter
    New York

    Visual Arts in Germany

    Articles and Links on Selected Topics

    Curators from Germany

    Biographical information, curatorial statements, links