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Four artist groups participated in a discussion panel at Sophiensaele in Berlin Mitte on September 16. Continue »

“Stadtplandienst vs. Me” is a video based on a court trial about a copyright violation that “Stadtplandienst“, an online map service, accused me of. On Wednesday, September 17 (20h / 22h) there will be a screening at the YOUin3D.com Headquarters, Hannoverscher Str. 3, 10115 Berlin.

After the premiere on Wednesday I will post the video here.

A while ago I a caught a fragment of a conversation between two elderly ladies in a public swimming pool: “My husband also died when he was in his forties. And? Did he miss much?”

Probably not, I’d say.

This is how the guide and master of ceremony at the Museum of American Art describes the history of modernism in art.
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On a boring armchair day during a cruise in the caribbean last december, an announcement through the speaker system made us check batteries on our phones and empty the memory cards of all vacation photos. We had 15 min until the lecture on “how the art market works” was going to start.

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Inspired by an idea that a group of artists from Rio de Janeiro came up with, Literaturwerkstatt invited more than 40 graffiti artists from Berlin, Rio and Barcelona to collaborate with poets from Berlin. The canvas was an old shopping center in Lichtenberg (alter Kaufhof at Anton-Saefkow-Platz). The building is a perfect urban gallery: It has an almost windowless wall that goes all around the building and the upper part of the building is wider than the lower part forming a roof that protected artists and visitors from the rain.
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