SONIC WATER – Laboratory for water sound images

SONIC WATER – Laboratory for water sound images

May 15th, 2013 | Germany, Installations

Sonic Water is a cymatics installation. Cymatics is the process of visualizing sound and vibrations through matter, such as for example sand or water. In the beginning there was sound. The reason cymatics exerts such a strong fascination is that we are not conditioned to… Read More

German galleries block VAT increase

German galleries block VAT increase

May 15th, 2013 | Art Market, Business, Galleries, Germany, News

Art Dealers and even the country’s culture minister oppose a 12% tax rise on the purchase of original works of art from 7% to 19% as proposed by the European Commission. The German federal association of galleries and dealers (Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler—BDGV) has,… Read More

The Whole Earth in Berlin

The Whole Earth in Berlin

May 6th, 2013 | Contemporary Art, Germany, Shows

The image of the “blue planet,” a new perspective of the earth as seen from the outside, is one of the most popular images in history. This image, more than any other, has shaped the popular notion of the age of the “whole world” and… Read More

Spectra Vision – Anselm Reyle curates show at Hidari Zingaro Berlin

Spectra Vision – Anselm Reyle curates show at Hidari Zingaro Berlin

May 6th, 2013 | Contemporary Art, Curators, Germany, Shows

Takashi Murakami’s Hidari Zingaro Berlin presents Spectra Vision, an exhibition curated by German artist Anselm Reyle. Founded by Takashi Murakami as a sister gallery to ‘Hidari Zingaro’ in Tokyo, Hidari Zingaro Berlin has contributed to Berlin’s art scene with a series of exhibitions introducing the… Read More

Hans Richter – Major Retrospective at LACMA

Hans Richter – Major Retrospective at LACMA

May 6th, 2013 | Dada, Germany, Shows

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Hans Richter: Encounters, the first museum exhibition to examine the evolution of German artist Hans Richter’s practice based on his interaction with other artists, writers, filmmakers, and composers. In Richter’s most significant retrospective since the 1980s, the… Read More

Wolfgang Tillmans’ 11th solo show at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York

Wolfgang Tillmans’ 11th solo show at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York

After a year that saw Wolfgang Tillmans’ work presented in six significant solo museum survey exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Zurich; São Paulo Museum of Modern Art; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogota; Kunstsammlung NRW (K21), Düsseldorf; and the Museo… Read More

Reopening of the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt

Reopening of the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt

April 19th, 2013 | Applied Art, Design, Germany, Museums

Under its new director Matthias Wagner K, the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, has developed a new presentation concept, which will depart from the permanent display form dedicated to stylistic eras and geographical regions, and work instead with temporary thematic room modules within… Read More

Cinema of Art – Film festival for fine artists in Munich

Cinema of Art – Film festival for fine artists in Munich

April 16th, 2013 | Contemporary Art, Festivals, Film, Germany

Cinema and art have cultivated a productive relationship throughout the past century. The festival “Cinema of Art” (24 – 28 April 2013) celebrates this fruitful dialogue and provides a forum for films by fine artists around the world. In an international competition, retrospectives, special programmes… Read More

Anselm Kiefer’s Morgenthau Plan at Gagosian

Anselm Kiefer’s Morgenthau Plan at Gagosian

April 8th, 2013 | Contemporary Art, Germany, Sculptures, Shows

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to inaugurate a new exhibition space at Le Bourget in the north of Paris with “Morgenthau Plan,” an exhibition by Anselm Kiefer. Following major exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery in New York (1998, 2000, 2002, 2010), Los Angeles (2008), and Rome (2009),… Read More

Visiting the Gipsformerei Berlin

Visiting the Gipsformerei Berlin

April 5th, 2013 | Germany, Museums, Sculptures, Videos

Berlin’s Gipsformerei proudly looks back on a long tradition and boasts a unique collection of just under 7000 replicas of original works of art taken from all cultures of the world and from all epochs. Besides replicas of works from European and Egyptian art periods,… Read More