Opening doors
Heimspiel 2011 in Cologne

reviews  11.04.11  Marion Ritter

The Cologne based festival shows theatre on the verge of intervention, performance and political activism.

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Who’s Kerstin Brätsch?
at Kölnischer Kunstverein

reviews  17.02.11  Kerstin Winking

Kerstin Brätsch and DAS INSTITUT scrutinize the role of the artist in the age of global capitalism, in which skilful branding is crucial to success.

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Forever Young
Isa Genzken

26/08/09  Catrin Lorch

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Nobody is a Woman
The Anti-Authoritarian Art of Jutta Koether

20/04/07  Catrin Lorch

A capricious elusiveness is an essential characteristic of the art of Jutta Koether. Black as night at one moment, shining with joy the next, she offers an oeuvre that appears to consist purely of side-paths. A profesional artistry that attests to great insight and virtuosity is alternated with the muddiest painting in the world: anit-art, anit-beauty, anti-everything. Who is she, and what does she want?

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Of two minds
Rosemarie Trockel's Post-Menopause

23/02/06  Anja Dorn

In the 1980s Rosmarie Trockel (1952) was viewed as an outspoken feminist whose work seemingly demonstrated her disdain for the macho art world of that time. It has become clear since then that Trockel’s work is anything but evidently political or obviously feminist. Trockels’s work may be qualified as emancipatory, but in philosophical rather than political terms.

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