Kreuzberg Exhibition: Shooting at the Canon with Sparrows

The exhibition “Kreuzberg: Art and Migration since 1960” at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin shows the art of those who came to the country as so-called guest workers. It's a discovery.

If you want to understand the state of a country and that of its rulers, you only have to look at the art with which they surround themselves, the exhibitions they go to the openings of – and those where they do not appear. For Germany, one can say that among top politicians there is an astonishing monoculture to observe: “Art” seems to them to be synonymous with “Anselm Kiefer”, whose straw-lead-barbed-wire-watchtower color sludge images brimming with dark symbolism, at the latest thanks to the Paul Celan quotes scratched into the wet color with depth and meaning, even the most tired viewer can identify as something that has to do with German history, ancient myths and other great topics.

For online surveys, the highest caution is required. Methodologists and the CDU-affiliated Adenauer Foundation point this out. Nevertheless, the CDU invited the click demoscopes of Civey to their crisis meeting.

My novel, my child, my artwork: Kate Zambreno tells of the expectations of a writing mother between vagueness and concretion – and parallels life and work with works by the artist Eva Hesse.

Why Stonehenge? An exhibition worth seeing in the State Archaeological Collection presents the results of a research project on the strange monument.