German photographer Thomas Demand builds 1:1 paper models of the notorious scenes of political and societal events and photographs them. Thomas Demand has been consistently exploring the collective visual memory of our media society. His fame has reached unprecedented heights. In 2009 he had a solo show at the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) in Berlin.
German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer, flagship of European Neoexpressionism, had an exhibition in early 2010 at the MASS MoCA museum in North Adams, Massachusetts. Artforum magazine describes Kiefer’s art as sensuous and mesmerizing images through which we gain entry to his arcane mindscape of ancient and recent history, philosophy, botany, Nordic myth, National Socialism, alchemy, and Wagner.
More than a music clip, a music shortfilm directed by, Jan Schonwiesner for the great experimental composer, Amon Tobin.
More info about his work at: http://12frames.de/motion.html
Otto Piene is one of the most important 20th century German artists. In this film we show his restored version of the installation “The proliferation of the sun” at the Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund.
German artist Rebecca Horn’s work often deals with alterations to the human body. This is an early performance she did in Berlin in 1974.
I like America and America likes me was one of the most celebrated performances by German shaman-performer artist Joseph Beuys. He stayed for three days and three nights in 1974 inside the Block Gallery in New York with a coyote.
Kutlug Ataman is one of Turkey’s most famous contemporary artists. More than 10 years ago he wrote and directed the long feature film Lola + Bilidikid (Lola and Billy the Kid). It is an immensely interesting view of the lives of Turks in Berlin. Here the trailer of the movie.
The project facadeprinter is about inventing and marketing a new print media. An inkdot-printer in architectonic scale.
Noteput is an interactive music table with tangible notes.
Classic music clip from the pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk was made at 1977.
An inspiration for a lot of artist now.
I’d like the robots!