For more than 20 years now a group of artists in Berlin known as “inges idee” have been working on projects in public space. In a playfully charming way they design sculptures that everybody can understand.More ...
The course of study entitled Free Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich gives its students a maximum of free space for their development. Just how much creativity this unleashes can be seen at the annual summer exhibition.More ...
For decades now it has been considered to be in the best possible taste at the Biennale to call the competition among the nations into question. The German entry made a statement, but in the end it shied away from conflict.More ...
He was considered to be an enfant terrible of the art business, he lived a life of excess and died at an early age. In celebration of his 60th birthday the “Museum für Gegenwart” in Berlin is paying homage to this controversial artist.More ...
Known for his evolving body of performance work, wall drawings and artist collaborations, South African born Kemang Wa Lehulere is part of a new generation of critically engaged producers.More ...
From 9 June 2013 to 17 May 2014, the Walther Collection in Neu-Ulm will be presenting the last in a cycle of exhibitions entitled “Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive”.More ...
Beginning in the 1950s, resistance to the apartheid regime in South Africa became increasingly radical. An exhibition in Munich presents photographic coverage of the anti-apartheid movement.More ...
“The Shuttered Society” was a showcase of about 250 images taken by 34 photographers – a veritable panorama of the photographic art of the GDR.More ...
At 8 p.m. on 16th September 2012 the Documenta 13 closed its doors – and in the truest sense of the word broke all bounds. Philipp Bösel, artist and photographer, has compiled a portfolio containing the most impressing images.More ...
While delegates from 194 nations debated solutions and compromises inside Durban’s International Convention Centre, artist Jacques Coetzer scaled a ladder in the shallows of the Indian Ocean nearby.More ...
David Southwood is a Cape Town based photographic artist who seems to be – after all – more interested in people and in roads. We talked to him about his new exhibition N1, about the influence of development techniques on photographs and the inside of sex worker’s handbags.More ...
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 ...
No other agency in Germany that is run independently by photographers is as successful as Ostkreuz in Berlin. This article looks back over the history and ahead to the future prospects of the collective.More ...
On the architecture campus at Vitra in Weil am Rhein there’s some more avant garde architecture to marvel at. The furniture manufacturers are showcasing their products in the new show home.More ...
Advances in computer technology and the spread of the personal computer have given artists the opportunity of letting viewers interact with art works.More ...
