You might already know about my favourite writing exercise to loosen up the sound of the hand: the Coffee Cup Exercise. You can do it preferably in the morning, also preferably at the bakery, and you need…

It's mid autumn. Did you know that for a long time there was no concept for autumn? There were just names for the extremes of winter and summer, and then spring joined in the 12th century. But autumn …

Tabea Blumenschein, photographed by Wolfgang Müller, 2018 “Tabea communicated with T-shirts!” her friend DJ Fetisch laughs in the art space Townes, “T-shirts were her billboard.” Wolfgang Müller is tellin…

Arte is showing a new documentary by Teresa Griffiths on Lee Miller. I'm a fan of Lee Miller's work but the documentary is feminist in that awful kind of way, reducing everything Lee Miller did t…

There is this vague news that the Berlin Art Week is starting and the 11th Berlin Biennale is opening or might already have opened this weekend. Nobody seems to get excited and even social media is kind o…

There is a lot of emphasis on Andy Warhol being gay in the Andy Warhol exhibition at the Tate, tracking "the impulses that drove this shy, gay man to be an artist" as the introduction text says.…

It must be two years now that I have been receiving emails from the Berlin Biennial on a regular basis. Invitations to events all over the city with different curators and artists, or that is what I t…