Festivals and Films
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Rational/Irrational exhibition.
7 Nov 2008-11 Jan 2009. The House of World Cultures hosts this exhibition/film festival exploring the borderline between rationality and irrationality, extreme psychological states and diverse percept...
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9 Nov-28 Dec 2008. The Berlin-based artist Via Lewandowsky created this technical sound-installation, entitled Applause, which reflects on the role of art in society. His work consists of 96 loudspeak...
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European Month of Photography: Mutations II.
2 Nov 2008-2 Feb 2009. This project brings together the seven photography festivals of Berlin, Bratislava, Luxembourg, Moscow, Paris, Rome and Vienna in a single European network to exchange informati...
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31 Oct 2008-8 Feb 2009. The upper hall of the New National Gallery hosts a spectacular art installation by contemporary American artist Jeff Koons. On display are the glistening and colourful giant sc...
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30 Oct-2 Nov 2008. This fair of contemporary art, photography and art celebrates its fifth edition and transforms Berlin into an international capital for contemporary art. About 75 established galler...
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19 Nov 2008-2 Feb 2009. Photographs taken by pioneering architect Walter Gropius during his seven-week trip to the United States in 1928 are on show in this exhibition at the Bauhaus, taking place in...
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6 Sept-5 Oct 2008. The International Forum for Visual Dialogues displays In Principio, a photographic voyage through coffee plantations in Brazil, India, Ethiopia, Guatemala and Colombia. On show are...
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Sebastiano del Piombo. Raphael’s Grace and Michelangelo’s Furore.
28 June-28 Sept 2008. After Palazzo Venezia in Rome, the Gem
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Gioiello Italiano. Contemporary Italian Jewelry between Art and Design.
10 July-5 Oct 2008. The Kunstgewerbemuseum displays about 200 selected pieces of jewellery from 126 renowned designers and jewellers. The contemporary Italian jewellery design is deeply rooted in the...
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19 June-16 Nov 2008. The Helmut Newton Foundation displays 350 black-and-white and colour prints by famous freelance photographers, such as Salomon, Wegee, Galella, Quinn, Angeli, Secchiaroli, Pigozzi...
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Masterpieces of Origami in Hamburg.
11 May 2007-7 Oct 2008. The Museum fűr Kunst und Gewerbe of Hamburg displays Folding into Form, an exhibition which brings back to life the ancient Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper into...
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Anna and Bernhard Blume. Reine Vernunft.
27 June-26 July 2008. The Buchmann Galerie displays the works by the German photographers Anna and Bernhard Blume, who have significantly extended the genre of staged photography. Large black and whit...
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5 July-7 Sept 2008. The Institute for Contemporary Art displays Still Life, a solo exhibition by the photographer Riccarda Roggan. Her series of photographs portray everyday situations, which seem to...
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Hiroshi Sugimoto. Retrospective.
4 July-5 Oct 2008. The Neue Nationalgalerie displays a complete retrospective by the Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, great master of black-and-white photography for over 30 years. Sugimoto
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Richard Serra. Thinking on Your Feet.
6 July-7 Sept 2008. The Institute For Contemporary Art displays the first exhibition dedicated to the films of the American artist Richard Serra, minimalist sculptor and video-artist, who became famou...
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5 July-7 Sept 2008. The Secession displays the works by the Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, whose intention is to produce something which resists historical facts. Hirschhorn
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Sharon Hayes. In the Near Future 2005-08.
3 July-2 Aug 2008. The Tanya Leighton Gallery displays a performance-based artwork by the American artist Sharon Hayes, who stages anachronistic and spectacular protest actions. Hayes analyses the fi...
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28 June-2 Aug 2008. The Hamish Morrison Gallery displays Formation, a series of unpublished large images by the German photographer Erik Niedling. The Berlin-based artist uses historical sources and...
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Annette Kisling. Les Vitrines.
27 June-9 Aug 2008. The Galerie Kamm displays a series of images by the German photographer Annette Kisling, whose works describe the situations of today
