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KUNSTTEXTE REVISIONS

OUT NOW: Jule Schaffer and I edited the first issue of the new section “photography” of the online magazine kunsttexte.de – Journal für Kunst und Bildgeschichte (University of Heidelberg).Available here (open access)Under the title “Re:Visions”, four essays and two interviews … Continue reading

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OLAF METZEL BLOG POST

Sometimes art can teach you a thing or two about the times and the world we live in. This certainly is the case with Olaf Metzel‘s exhibition “Deutschstunde“, which is on display at Weimar’s Belvedere Castle until 1 November. I … Continue reading

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ARIS KALAIZIS

Delivered today: Aris Kalaizis, Aris Kalaizis and Ralf Heipmann (eds.), Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2024, to which I contributed a short text on the New Leipzig School painter’s recent work Novus Mundi. Check it out!

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AUGMENTED REALITY IN FINE ART

Augmented Reality is an insubordinate medium. Read in my latest essay how it pushes the physical boundaries of the museum space and defies conventional ideas of exhibitions, ownership and power in the art world. You can read the text with … Continue reading

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LEE MILLER BLOG POST

Last Thursday, 11 April, marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. I wrote a little something on Lee Miller‘s photographs of the first funeral procession to mark this day. You can read it on Klassik … Continue reading

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KUNSTTEXTE

SPREAD THE WORD: Jule Schaffer and I just founded a new section on photography within the German open access journal kunsttexte. For the first edition, which we are planning to launch towards the end of the year, we just published … Continue reading

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LEE MILLER IN KLASSISCH MODERN

Very proud to have contributed to the latest issue of klassisch modern, the annual magazine of Klassik Stiftung Weimar, with fantastic texts by Peter Neumann, Anna Stiede and Nancy Hünger, amongst others. I wrote, once more, about Lee Miller‘s Buchenwald … Continue reading

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BACON AND EPHEMERAL ART

Bacon’s working material was not meant to last. In fact, the decay of the torn leaves, paint-spattered photographs and newspaper clippings was a pivotal element in his art – both for his iconography and on a conceptual level. In that … Continue reading

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LEE MILLER RUNDBRIEF FOTOGRAFIE

New publication: Lee Miller is currently omnipresent, and rightly so, but it’s time for new approaches to her work. Read my extensive review of the show Lee Miller. Fotografin zwischen Krieg und Glamour at Bucerius Kunst Forum in the December … Continue reading

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DEUTSCHER FOTOBUCHPREIS

My book Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography. Collecting, Preparatory Practice and Painting is nominated for the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis (German Photo Book Price) at Internationales Festival Fotografischer Bilder! Beyond excited 🌈 WATCH THAT SPACE

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