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(c) Peter Nestler

A Vision of Resistance: Peter Nestler

June 24 - 28

Peter Nestler is one of the most important filmmakers to emerge from postwar Germany who, for over half a century, has been observing the poetics and politics of labor. The Film Society of Lincoln Center now presents the first major retrospective of Nestler’s work in the US, with the director in person for select film screenings.
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German Movie Nights: Bornholmer Straße

June 30

November 9, 1989: At the Bornholmer Straße border crossing in Berlin, Lieutenant-Colonel Schäfer and his GDR border patrol colleagues attend their everyday business until they see Günter Schabowski’s statement, claiming that with immediate effect, all citizens of the GDR can request a trip to Western foreign countries...
© Sidsel Meineche Hansen

Sidsel Meineche Hansen, OVER

Through July 9

OVER is both the title of Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s solo exhibition at MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, and an augmented-reality app that will be launched as part of the show.
© Boudry / Lorenz

Everybody talks about the weather… We don't

Through July 16

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz present their first US solo exhibition at PARTICIPANT INC. in the Lower East Side, including the new moving-image work Telepathic Improvisation (2017).

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Summer Courses

A Vision of Resistance: Peter Nestler

German Movie Nights: Bornholmer Straße

Sidsel Meineche Hansen, OVER

Everybody talks about the weather… We don't