Yang Fudong: 7 Intelectuals in a Bamboo Forest

Nairy Baghramian

Artist Nairy Baghramian in front of her sculpture.

The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni

          This haunting and beautifully formed documentary is a meditation on the life of Egyptian screen legend Soad Hosni, who starred in eighty-two feature films between 1959 and 1991. Hosni’s mysterious death in London in 2001 sent shockwaves through the Arab world, and this is the first film which look into her life and work. Using filmic montage, director and video artist Rania Stephan reveals the diverse modes of female representation embodied in Hosni’s charismatic roles, and creates an ebullient picture of the iconic actress who captivated the modern Arab imagination.                                  

Sculpture Undone: Stele

                                                      Alina Szapocznikowa, Stele, 1968

Alina Szapocznikowa

artist Alina Szapocznikowa in Paris in 1967.

Isa Genzken: Rose II

How Much Fascism?

An exhibition in the framework of FORMER WEST. 

Curators WHW: “we need to turn our attention to the silent fascism that is becoming normalized through the systematic violence seeping into the laws and everyday administration practices of the nation-state, and to assess the mechanisms of oppression and the various symptoms of contemporary fascism that are being presented as unavoidable, pragmatic necessities.”

Truth is Concrete

A 24/7 marathon camp on artistic strategies in politics and political strategies in art.

A selection of video documentations 'truth remixed' is now available online