Last Sunday I followed an invitation to witness an Art performance at Galerie M in Marzahn (for non-Berliners: Eastern outskirts with visually extremely cool socialist high rises that will take at least 50 years to become popular amongst Mitte hipsters and only under the condition that yuppies will invade Neukölln and Wedding before).

The performance exceeded the 15 seconds that it claimed to take through its title (15sec) by 2:30min. I did a bootleg recording with my cellphone from a safe position behind glass in the gallery’s entrance space.

Isn’t the tiny Smart on a leash sweet? To bad it couldn’t go wild on its own without a driver.

At the book presentation of “Updating Germany” by Raumtaktik (the curators of the German contribution to the Venice Biennial International Architecture Exhibition 2008) the term “Betroffenheitskunst” was brought up and kept coming back throughout the panel discussion. The term is used to criticize art that aims to cause empathy as an end in itself. At least this is how I understand it. In the context of architecture – which in one way or another is always about altering reality – the term does not seem to make much sense in my opinion. (more…)

On Monday, December 1, I will give a Talk at the Museum of American Art in Berlin Friedrichshain (Frankfurter Allee 91).

Reality Over
Überlegungen zu schnellem Geld, hoher Kunst, Computerspielen und anderen Spielen. (more…)

A while ago I a caught a fragment of a conversation between two elderly ladies in a public swimming pool: “My husband also died when he was in his forties. And? Did he miss much?”

Probably not, I’d say.

This is how the guide and master of ceremony at the Museum of American Art describes the history of modernism in art.
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