Does Berlin Need a New Art School?

Statements and sketches by 30 artists, writers, teachers and architects

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Künstlerinnen International

Reflecting on the groudbreaking feminist show in Berlin in 1977: interviews with Silvia Bovenschen, Sarah Schumann, Michaela Melián, and the ff collective

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Full Disclosure

Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s works record and refract the mechanisms of power

by Martin Herbert

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Kalifornication

Tracing the ideas that travelled from Germany to the deserts of Southern California and eventually influenced 1960s counterculture. The remarkable story of the LA Nature Boys

by Lyra Kilston

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John Kelsey

Review

by Pablo Larios

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Logistics

Off the Clock

Bettina Pousttchi explains why she travels around the world photographing clocks

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Focus

Marta Riniker-Radich

Multicoloured Modernism and sci-fi suburbia

by Quinn Latimer

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House of Dada

From his early Dada and Surrealist photomontages to his later New York fashion shoots, Erwin Blumenfeld insistently parodied objects of desire

by Sarah James

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Affinities

Walser in Berlin

Tacita Dean talks to Pablo Larios about her connection to Robert Walser

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Trouvaille

Favourites from the ebb and flow of culture as picked by Aleksandra Domanović

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Blog

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  • Berlin, Germany

    Assaf Gruber

    Galerie Michael Janssen by Sara Stern

  • Bregenz, Germany

    Liebe ist kälter als das Kapital

    Kunsthaus Bregenz by Jörg Scheller

  • Interview

    Künstlerinnen International

    In 1977 a groundbreaking survey exhibition of female artists, Künstlerinnen International 1877–1977, opened at Berlin’s Schloss Charlottenburg. The show was quickly met with a hostile reception before being just as quickly forgotten – even in the annals of feminist art history. In 2012, artist and musician Michaela Melián made a video installation featuring a conversation with artist Sarah Schumann and writer Silvia Bovenschen, who were instrumental in realizing the exhibition. Here, frieze d/e publishes an edited transcript of their conversation. Accompanying it are interviews with Melián herself and with three members of the feminist group ff: artists Mathilde ter Heijne, Antje Majewski and Juliane Solmsdorf. Looking back today, how important was that show? Over the past four decades, what has changed in the relationship between feminism and art? by frieze d/e

  • Vienna, Austria

    Birgit Jürgenssen

    Galerie Hubert Winter by Yuki Higashino

  • Monograph

    House of Dada

    From his early Dada and Surrealist photomontages to his later New York fashion shoots, Erwin Blumenfeld insistently parodied objects of desire by Sarah James

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