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MONO.KULTUR #49: SANTIAGO SIERRA

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Dear Friends,
within the general feeling of unease, we are thrilled to present our new issue mono.kultur #49 with Spanish artist and activist Santiago Sierra, widely acclaimed and frequently despised for his controversial performances that aim straight for the point where it hurts the most.
Santiago Sierra is perhaps best known for his infamous ‘remunerated actions’, in [...]

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MONO.KULTUR #48: EYAL WEIZMAN / FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE

Saturday, August 22, 2020

Dear Friends,
in this strange year of a global pandemic, race riots, and an increasingly toxic discourse in politics and society, our new issue couldn’t come more timely, featuring Eyal Weizman, the outspoken founder of Forensic Architecture.
Made up of architects, lawyers, journalists, scientists, designers, and more, Forensic Architecture is part investigative research lab, human rights activism [...]

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A FEW WORDS

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Things we should think about for the next coming months and years via “Revolutionary Letters #14″ by Diane Di Prima.

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FESTIVAL OF DANGEROUS IDEAS

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

The eighth Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) is a compelling weekend of challenging, inspirational and robust discussion with powerful speakers from around the world. The Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) is back with dangerous ideas and speakers from around the world. In FODI land, you will be able to explore a dark and dangerous landscape [...]

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COMMUNITY ART

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

After decades of implied politics within his work, Wolfgang Tillmans has taken a refreshing and more outspoken position that addresses political issues head on: first turning his gallery space Between Bridges in Berlin into a temporary ‘meeting place’ to discuss the refugee crisis: ‘From this month Between Bridges wants to be a forum, however small; [...]

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DRAWING THE LINE

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

DRAWING THE LINE – Dissenting voices in contemporary comics
Exhibition with:
Rebecca Rosen | Akvile Magicdust | Paula Bulling | Radical Jetset | Marlene Krause | Tine Fetz | Max Baitinger | Barrack Rima
Opening: 9.4.2016, 7 pm
Dates: 9.–30.4.2016
neurotitan shop & gallery
c/o Schwarzenberg e. V., Rosenthaler Str. 39, 10178 Berlin
Open: Mon–Sat noon–8 pm
More information on the exhibition [...]

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HUMBOLDT JUNGLE

Saturday, February 27, 2016

For Berliners, the story of the desctruction of the monumental GDR Palast der Republik in favour of rebuilding its predecessor of the Humboldt Schloss in all its architectural insignificance is a depressing example for city politics lagging miles behind the vibrancy of Berlin. But Berlin is also a city renowned for its stoic subversion, and [...]

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THE MORROCCANS

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

In the world of unending terror, recently, photographer and video artist Leila Alaoui is killed…  The artist was commissioned to work on a series about women rights in Burkina Faso, where the evil attack took place. Her series The Maroccans depicts cultural diversity of Alaoui’s Morocco. Rest in Peace.

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VIRTUAL REALITY REPORTAGE

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Last weekend, the New York Times Magazine, ever worth watching and recently in the hands of art director Matt Willey – who also designed our issue with Chris Ware – forayed into new territories of virtual reality. The issue came with Google’s cardboard VR viewer that you can slide your smartphone into to access a [...]

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INTERPRETATION OF NATURE

Friday, September 11, 2015

Across photography, installation, and social sculpture, Mathias Kessler probes the contemporary imagination, employing a visual language that borrows from the Romantic landscape genre and expedition photography, using empirical reason and the “sublime” as foils for an investigation that goes beyond the mere “natural” surface to explore the more complicated political and economic forces that have [...]

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