Little Thoughts about Art: Coffee and Croissant

Little Thoughts about Art: Coffee and Croissant

If you leave Belgium, you disappear from its radar. In Germany it’s the other way around, if you haven’t been abroad, you don’t count. Once I met the curator of a Belgian museum who was going to put up …

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LITTLE THOUGHTS ON ART: PROFIT

LITTLE THOUGHTS ON ART: PROFIT

Once I proposed an exhibition idea together with a friend to a newly opened non-profit art space. Its director was a young man who got the funding from his father. I’m sure he would have said yes, if it…

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Little Thoughts about Art: What Do You Do?

Little Thoughts about Art: What Do You Do?

The first question when you get to know somebody in the United States is: “What do you do?” In Germany the first question people ask, is “Where are you from?” Both questions can get on your nerves.…

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Little Thoughts on Art: Talking the Talk

Little Thoughts on Art: Talking the Talk

In German you can say whatever and make it sound intellectual. Yet, if you’re not German, even when you master the language, it’s almost impossible to imitate it. It must be connected to a certain twi…

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Open Letters with Chilean Art Critic Ignacio Szmulewicz, 13

Open Letters with Chilean Art Critic Ignacio Szmulewicz, 13

Ignacio Szmulewicz and I met a few weeks ago in person at the central station in Berlin. He had a few hours time before travelling further to Prague. It's special when meeting your pen pal, isn't …

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Little Thoughts on Art: The Job Interview

Little Thoughts on Art: The Job Interview

Once I got invited for a job interview without having applied. That’s how I expect it to be, of course, jobs should just be offered to me on a silver platter. It was for a curatorial job in an alternati…

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Little Thoughts on Art: Mussels on a Rooftop

Little Thoughts on Art: Mussels on a Rooftop

There’s this rumor that Marcel Broodthaers used to hang out in the bookstore in Brussels all day long, and that it was his wife Maria Gilissen who was the thriving force behind him to get it together an…

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Little Thoughts on Art: What Does It Mean?

Little Thoughts on Art: What Does It Mean?

They were a couple, traveling to Berlin for the first time. “Where are you from?” I asked, although that’s a question I hate myself. "Israel," so they told me, and yes, they knew about co…

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Little Thoughts on Art: Artist's Lofts

Little Thoughts on Art: Artist's Lofts

Artists like lofts - this might be because they can’t stand barriers, even when they take on the form of doors. The open space reflects the open mind. Practically, a loft comes in handy if one tends to …

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Little Thoughts on Art: Gallery Furniture

Little Thoughts on Art: Gallery Furniture

In December I visited for the first time Wolfgang Tillmans’ gallery Between Bridges in the Keithstraße in Charlottenburg. A gallery attendant greeted us in the elegantly curated exhibition of Jochen L…

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 A Thriller about Warhol?! Reading Jörg Heiser’s Art and Pop Music

A Thriller about Warhol?! Reading Jörg Heiser’s Art and Pop Music

Jörg Heiser, chief editor of the legendary Frieze magazine, published his Magnum Opus about pop music and art. Well, at least, the book has the size of a Magnum Opus. I despaired by the sight of it and…

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