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 …
Read moreLITTLE 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…
Read moreLittle 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.…
Read moreLittle 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…
Read moreOpen 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 …
Read moreLittle 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…
Read moreLittle 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…
Read moreLittle 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…
Read moreLittle 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 …
Read moreLittle 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…
Read moreA Thriller about Warhol?! Reading Jörg Heiser’s Art and Pop Music
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March 04, 2016By
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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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