In the early 80s, I stumbled upon a peculiar album cover in a record store in my home town in Denmark. Five men stood in a row wearing plastic uniforms and red geometric lampshades on their heads. 40 years later, they’d become a part of my life – and I finally watched them performing live in Berlin.
I suddenly noticed that Konzerthaus Berlin hosted a work I never heard by a composer I admire: Steve Reich’s “video opera” Three Tales – the video part created by his wife Beryl Korot. The work interprets the development and failures …
Finally managed to get in to the very popular Gerhard Richter exhibit at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Strangely, I did not come away as impressed as I expected I would. I do admire Richters technique – and especially his insistence on …
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I went to see Olafur Eliasson’s Innen Stadt Außen exhibit in Martin-Gropius-Bau. Thankfully, the long line of visitors was for the much hyped exhibit of the utterly overrated Frida Kahlo. Well, speaking of overrated, I’m still not sure what to …
Saw the Jörg Immendorf retrospective exhibit at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Brilliant stuff. The collection of works spanned his entire career: Naivist Fluxus-type stuff, socialist realism from the 70es, “wild” paintings from the 80es. And then his recent work, which impressed …
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