More worth your time at the same venue, plus a few nearby picks.
DESIGN
Glamour and geometry. Art Deco in illustration. Blackbox #17
Paris, 1925: The “Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes” celebrates the triumph of a new aesthetic. Around 15,000 exhibitors from 18 nations present what would later go down in design history as Art Deco at this world exhibition of decorative arts…
DESIGN
‘I am not a ceramist.’ Linde Burkhardt
The Bröhan Museum is exhibiting a selection of the diverse works of artist and designer Linde Burkhardt (born 1937).
DESIGN
Edward W. Godwin and Oscar Wilde. Dandies Decadence Modernity
The exhibition is dedicated to two outstanding protagonists of the Aesthetic Movement, whose cult of beauty provided a significant impulse for the emergence of modern design.
FESTIVALS
“No More Masterpieces”
“No More Masterpieces” (a battle cry from the well-known Surrealist Antonin Artaud) dedicates itself to the action-oriented side of Surrealism and its impact that is still felt today.
FESTIVALS
SOPHIA ODER DAS ENDE DER HUMANISTEN
Few topics captivate as much as artificial intelligence. Long since breaking free from the confines of scientific research, it has become-sometimes more, sometimes less obviously-a part of everyday life, and its potential is impossible to predict.
FESTIVALS
SHEUNG YIU ꟾ (Inter)faces of Predictions
In his winning project, Sheung Yiu (b. 1991) investigates how faces across different cultures and technological contexts serve to prefigure character traits and foretell the future.
INTERNATIONAL
DÖRTE EISSFELDT ꟾ Archipelago
In the images of Dörte Eißfeldt (born 1950), nothing is as it seems, and nothing stays the same. Instead of merely depicting reality, she transforms photography into a medium of constant metamorphosis.
FESTIVALS
'Proximity as a state' - Images of humanity by Matthias Gálvez
Matthias Gálvez is one of the most distinctive voices in Berlin's realistic-figurative painting. His works understand proximity not as a narrative motif, but as an experiential state.
