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Suspended Territories
Few people in Germany are familiar with contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa and even fewer with works by female Arab and Persian artists. That is why the Museum Marta Herford is developing an exhibition featuring nine renowned...
In the cut
Sexuality has always played a central role in art history – as a visual theme, motif and catalyst for artistic production. Yet the female perspective of eroticism in art is still the exception. In this exhibition on sexuality in feminist art, the...
MATERIAL
Fashion evokes emotions. It’s seductive. It’s sexy. It defines social status, it drives commerce and represents cultural heritage. The city of Bielefeld owes much of its prosperity today, numerous jobs and the existence of entire city districts to...
Sisters
Using Chekhov’s play “The Three Sisters” as a foil, this project incorporated the personal details of Nele Winkler, Juliana Götze and Rita Seredsuß, three actresses with Down’s syndrome, who played the roles of the three sisters in this production by...
FIDENA 2010 – Figurentheater der Nationen: Let's get loud
FIDENA (Figurentheater der Nationen) has organized festivals of puppet and performing object theatre since 1958 and showcased the newest trends and international developments of the genre. The festival in 2010 focused on music, as the theatre makers...
My Behavioral Surplus
The permeation of digital technology in all areas of life has led people to increasingly shift their entire personality into the digital domain. In the “age of surveillance capitalism” (Shoshana Zuboff), we have become an important source of raw...
Parables of Friendship
David Medalla, born in Manila in 1942, is widely regarded as a pioneer of kinetic art. He first attracted international acclaim with “Cloud Canyons” in the 1960s, a series of sculptures which continuously emit soap foam. The subtle dialogue between...
State and Nature
Although nature is often romanticised as a private refuge, it is also politically instrumentalised and often becomes a political issue in itself. Nature is always part of a state’s territory and is thus subject to its power structures and economic...
We Have Delivered Ourselves from the Tonal – of, with, towards, on Julius Eastman
The African-American composer, musician and performer Julius Eastman (1940-1990) was a leading figure of American minimal music of the 1970s and 1980s. Following his premature death, he was quickly forgotten, but as of late people have been...
Slavs and Tatars. Made in Dschermany
The artists’ collective Slavs and Tatars investigates reciprocal relationships between supposedly disparate cultural spheres. In its research-based works, it focuses on the “region east of the Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as...
