#PODCAST Photographer Nicola Brandt: Namibia & the colonial era
Artist Nicola Brandt spent her youth in Namibia’s capital, Windhoek. It was a life during apartheid. Steidl company has now published her impressive work “The Distance Within”.
#PODCAST: Lee Miller – Photographer between War and Glamour
The young American Lee Miller begins as a model in New York in the 1920s, then makes a career as an artist and photographer in Paris and New York. Later, as a war reporter, the American documents the atrocities in the German concentration camps […]
#PODCAST Dynamic hut – the utopia of the world museum from Hamburg
Die Kunst sollte allen zugänglich sein, überall auf der Welt. Das sagt eine Künstler-Gruppe aus Hamburg und Burkina Faso. Sie fordern: Van Gogh, Warhol und Beuys gehören auch in die Museen Afrikas! Ihre Utopie hat einen Namen: Dynamische Hütte. Podcast-Talk mit den Künstler:innen Vivienne Lütteken und Michael Böhler […]
#documenta fifteen “Return to Sender” #1 Fashion or trash?
The installation “Return to Sender” is possibly the largest art object at this documenta. That’s why it deserves special attention,…
Rothenburgsort: The avant-garde in the gatehouse
Hamburg’s new insider tip in the art scene is Reginenstrasse No. 8, an address that sounds friendly and homely, reminiscent…
Tangerine: From iPhone to the big screen
Late in the credits, “shot entirely on iPhone 5s” appears on the screen. Tangerine, from filmmaker Sean Baker, counts as…
11 containers for creativity
At the Reeperbahn Festival 2014, members of the club Hamburg Hoch 11 set up a village made of shipping containers….
Art meets fashion
When art and fashion get together, sparks can fly – and before you know it, something new and unique can…
“Documents of arresting sameness” – documenta 14
Street Photography by Hans Eijkelboom from Amsterdam That there is not much humor at documenta may well be true, but…