Nutzerkonto

Kunst

When life’s hard, time’s a motherfucker going slow
When life’s hard, time’s a motherfucker going slow

Soham Gupta

Angst

Through the grayness of this concrete city, streams of tin-box vehicles flow ahead languidly – and like at a river’s delta, distributaries of little hatchbacks and dented yellow taxis branch off from the main road, spreading in varied directions. From your roof, you can see the whole city, you can feel it’s pulse – yet, there is such a strange silence around you, it’s as if the noise below is far, far away, so far that you are actually longing...
Aktuelle Texte
About ‘how we treat the others’

Artur Zmijewski

About ‘how we treat the others’

OPEN
ACCESS
DE
  • documenta
  • Polen
  • Propaganda
  • Lager
  • Nationalsozialismus
  • Gabe
  • Ethik
  • Gegenwartskunst
  • Politische Ästhetik
  • Migration

 

Themen
Aktuelle Texte
»This is not my blood.«

»This is not my blood.«

OPEN
ACCESS
  • Identität
  • Videokunst
  • Performance-Kunst
  • Mensch-Tier-Kommunikation

 

A coffin to bury the statues of the ­ancestors
A coffin to bury the  statues of the ­ancestors

Clémentine Deliss

The Repatriation of the White Cube

I was initially slightly sceptical of the ramifications and undertones of Renzo Martens’ project in central Congo. But as I found out on a recent visit to Lusanga in DRC, it is precisely the complexity and radical ambiguity of the enterprise that provides it with both artistic as well as socio-economic and political relevance. The work operates across several registers, each with its own context and syntax, be it within farming or art. What really convinces me is the equity...
OPEN
ACCESS
  • Gegenwartskunst
  • Kolonialismus
  • Museum
  • Afrika
  • Kolonialgeschichte