Art Question: Can an artist still work with the material fat?

Art Question: Can an artist still work with the material fat?

It’s really hard to pull it off. Some material is just done with. It’s rare that an artist used a material in such a way you can’t use it anymore. Whereas Andy Warhol did it with coca cola, Josef Beuys …

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Art Question: Why is Female Sound Bad to Hear?

Art Question: Why is Female Sound Bad to Hear?

“Why is female sound bad to hear?” that’s the question asked by Anne Carson in an essay on the gender of sound. It reminded me of the artist Tino Seghal choosing women to perform the role of security gu…

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Abstract Cries of Murderous Birds: the Trautonium

Abstract Cries of Murderous Birds: the Trautonium

I had a good time yesterday listening to the trautonium played by Peter Pichler at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung. At moments it go so loud and shrill that some people in the audience had to hold their han…

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Cocktail Hour at a François Morellet Exhibition

Cocktail Hour at a François Morellet Exhibition

Invitation card of the exhibition in Thibaut de Ruyter's trademark - the negative photograph Raisins, green tomatoes and crackers were served together with some delicious cocktails at last nigh…

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Such Great Heights. On Artists Climbing High, the A-Team, Frieze and Karstadt

Such Great Heights. On Artists Climbing High, the A-Team, Frieze and Karstadt

Thinking about religion this Sunday morning, I decided to stay on a high level in the afternoon and go see the exhibition such great heights at a former indoor climbing hall in Neukölln. The exhibitio…

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Art Question: Do Contemporary Art  And Religion Go Together?

Art Question: Do Contemporary Art And Religion Go Together?

Yesterday during my guided tour we started talking about how many are surprised to discover that Andy Warhol was religious. Others are surprised to hear that Joseph Beuys wasn’t religious, although hi…

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Two Critics Waiting in Line of the EDEKA

Two Critics Waiting in Line of the EDEKA

It was in the line of the EDEKA on Sunday that I felt a man pushing at my back. I turned around to see my former professor, legendary art historian Horst Bredekamp, standing there. Not really my prof…

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Oooookay. More Flesh or the Existential Crisis of the Art Critic

Oooookay. More Flesh or the Existential Crisis of the Art Critic

My favourite answer to criticism, is to mimick Ms. Swan's '"Ooooookay".  “You have to give your reader more flesh”, my friend criticised me Friday night over a glass of red wine. “P…

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