Visual Arts News from Germany

Markus Lanz © Pinakothek der Moderne

When a Building Site Becomes a Museum (04/12/2013)

On 13 April 2013, the Schaustelle will open – the temporary home to Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne.More ...
Mitglieder der Indian Society of Oriental Art | aus: Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, 1981

“The Bauhaus in Kolkata” (03/27/2013)

An avant-garde exhibition that was shown in India in 1922 is now being restaged at Bauhaus Dessau.More ...
© Wolfgang Volz

Christo’s “Big Air Package” (03/26/2013)

Christo, the artist famous among other things for wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin, has embarked on a new project intended to allow visitors to the Gasometer in Oberhausen to “bathe in light”.More ...
Münster, „Giant Pool Balls“ am Aasee; von Claes Oldenburg und Coosje van Bruggen für die Skulptur Projekte Münster (1977); © Rüdiger Wölk

Knowledge of Art – Symposium: “The Sculpture Projects Archive” (03/19/2013)

On 19 and 20 March, the LWL Museum in Münster is staging a symposium focusing on art in the public domain.More ...
Art Karlsruhe 2013 © art KARLSRUHE/Jürgen Rösner

“With passion for art” – The Art Karlsruhe (03/07/2013)

From 7 until 10 March 2013, the Art Karlsruhe trade fair will be exhibiting works from classical modernism to contemporary art for the tenth time.More ...
HA Schult „Beach Garbage Hotel“, Gäste, Rom, Foto: Gianluca Battista

Trash Art and Christianity – The exhibition “Time and Trash” (02/23/2013)

From 22 February until 12 May 2013, the Diocesan Museum in Paderborn is presenting an exhibition of works by conceptual artist HA Schult.More ...
Marc Chagall: Die Bastille 1954; Galerie Lessenich © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2013

“Poetry and Dream” – The Life’s Work of Marc Chagall (02/12/2013)

Until 30 June 2013, an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Messmer in Riegel is devoted to the life’s work of Marc Chagall.More ...
Nebenschauplätze Nr. 1 Foto © Hofmann&Lindholm

New Standpoints: The “Frankfurter Positionen” Festival (01/17/2013)

From 18 January until 20 February 2013, artists from all over Europe will be exploring the future of modernity.More ...
Otto Dix, Bildnis Frau Martha Dix, 1923

The Eye of the World – Otto Dix and the New Objectivity (11/13/2012)

“The painter is the eye of the world” is the title of an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, where important examples of New Objectivity will be on show until 7 April 2013.More ...
Mondscheineffekt über dem Bacino di San Marco mit der Kirche Maria della Salute, um 1870, Foto: Carlo Naya

Bella Italia – from the Grand Tour to Artificial Vision (07/12/2012)

From 10. July to 09. September 2012, photographs and paintings from the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal are on exhibition that show travellers’ views of Italy between 1815 and 1900.More ...
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Art for the Village – Villages for Art (07/11/2012)

The Deutsche Stiftung Kulturlandschaft (Cultural Landscape Foundation) is initiating an encounter between artists and villages through its project “Kunst fürs Dorf – Dörfer für die Kunst”.More ...

Reclaiming Public Space

Foto: kallejipp; Quelle: Photocase
How physical or digital is the public domain? A conference on the role of culture between public and digital spheres on 22. and 23. April in Berlin.

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