On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Erich Buchholz (1891-1972), the Kunsthaus Dahlem is presenting an exhibition in cooperation with the Foundation for Concrete Art Ingolstadt and the National Museum in Szczecin about the versatile artist, whose post-war oeuvre is now being presented for the first time prominently in focus. While…

Under the title »Tinged,« last year’s winner of the Bernhard Heiliger Fellowship Lena-Elise Aicher shows works from current production. Lena-Elise Aicher, born in Konstanz, studied sculpture at the University of the Arts in Berlin and graduated as a master student with Manfred Pernice.

Two post-war artists strove for freedom of expression: Bernhard Heiliger (Germany), who, at the rise of defamation against formalism, moved from the Soviet sector to the American, and Vadim Sidur (USSR), who was banned from exhibiting in his homeland after his very first show and soon even restricted from travelling abroad. Today, well-known pieces by…

Plato (about 427–347 BC) once came to the conclusion that the place in which thought appears sets the direction for its movement. In the 1970s, various philosophers broadened the understanding of place and space, especially public space. Thus, for example, Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) and Felix Guattari (1930–1992) outlined: different surfaces of social, political, cultural, and…

Two artists, one theme – when Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) and Boris Lurie (1924–2008) met in the 1960s, they soon shared more than friendship. Both adopted political positions with their art, both contended with the reappraisal of the inconceivable horrors of the Holocaust, and both opposed war, cruelty and crimes against humanity with every means at…