New Year Jingle
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December 31, 2018By
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I like to keep it short in writing: flash stories, picture haiku's, literature's hand luggage.... Accordingly, I changed the name of my blog from my full name into my signature letters AAAAA PPP…
Read moreChris Marker at BOZAR
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December 22, 2018By
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Les Statues meurent aussi, 1953 Chris Marker. Memories of the Future is on show at BOZAR, my favourite museum in Brussels. I love its architecture, its labyrinth hallways and rooms in art deco style…
Read morePostcard Time
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December 12, 2018By
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P. was sighing when I arrived at the bookstore Walther König in Hamburger Bahnhof. It wasn't his day and on top of that the customers were only buying postcards. Nothing worse for a bookstore salesp…
Read moreArt Observations
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December 04, 2018By
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Today I was back at the Hamburger Bahnhof. It had been a while. I got upset that there is no longer an Andy Warhol work on show. Even the great Mao wallpaper disappeared behind a white wall with minimal…
Read moreAndrea Coyotzi Borja: The Art of Falling
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November 27, 2018By
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Andrea Coyotzi Borja showed me her exhibition at the HAM Gallery. It’s titled “There was no thought, but a thrive for the visibility of something yet to be named.” I make notes in the exhibition. “The…
Read moreActivist History
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November 24, 2018By
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When I was in Helsinki last November, Anna Bromley sent me a video of a talk by Gavin Butt on glamour. A year later, in November, I'm back in Helsinki and Anna is visiting me. We're giving a w…
Read moreArt Observations
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November 14, 2018By
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Magritte-statement Drapes are hanging from the ceiling of the art gallery. "I have an allergy for this kind of hanging," he says. "This is not art," the curator says. "You…
Read moreArt Observations
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November 04, 2018By
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Sometimes the concept of an art piece will do it for me. It's an intellectual beauty. I don't even have to see it realised, it doesn't need to take on a physical form. Sometimes i…
Read moreAlbanian Diary
Pink clouds at our arrival in Tirana Wednesday A day before travelling to Albania Wolfgang Müller decides to go for a haircut at Kottbusser Tor. He picks a random hairdresser and since he's ear…
Read moreAutumnal Stories
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October 16, 2018By
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Color Poem for British Love I visited my mother in her new apartment in Diest, Belgium. There is a coffee roasting facility in Diest and this is why it often smells of roasted coffee beans. It’s cal…
Read moreTurning 40 on a Senseless Residency
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October 06, 2018By
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Turning 40 with fireworks I couldn't have been more lucky to be invited to the Residenza Insensate of Cose Cosmiche (Cosmic Things) by the Arthur Cravan Foundation when I happened to turn forty…
Read moreBerlin Art Week 2018
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October 01, 2018By
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Me at the Berlin Art Fair in Tempelhofer Flugfeld Let’s start with a riddle. If each person had 50 cm table space and the table is 25 meters long with people sitting on both sides of the table, then …
Read moreAn Afternoon at MaDame
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September 05, 2018By
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I'm sitting with Wolfgang Müller, Ahmad Hamad and Anna Kristjánsdóttir at the bistro MaDame at Hallesches Tor. Anna is visiting from Iceland and she's making a stop in Berlin while on a tour th…
Read moreBerlin Biennale 2018
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August 28, 2018By
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I finally made it to the 10th Berlin Biennale curated by Gabi Ngcobo and her curatorial team. I had such a busy summer that I even only made it once to a lake. I started the Berlin Biennale at the Aka…
Read moreLittle Thoughts in Art Now Available Online
My new book Little Thoughts in Art is now available for purchase online . You can find it on the TFGC Publishing website . On July 15, I presented the book after a bus tour from the city center to Ma…
Read moreFlash Portrait of Chi Chen
This week I met Chi Chen in real life. Before I'd met her only online on the Node platform. Chi is a curator and writer in Beijing and New York. Since 2016, she's been working on a big project …
Read moreEntertainment Park Art
At the Rundgang of the University of Arts Berlin, a student is shaving her long hair off. "She wants to shock," I tell my friend A. "Kann man auch mit einer guten Gedanke," she say…
Read moreIngmar Bergman's Afterlife as a Fly
On Monday I attended Liv Ullmann Live at Babylon Kino. German director Margarethe von Trotta talked with the Norwegian actress on the occasion of Ingmar Bergman 100th birthday. It was a fun talk altho…
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