MAPPING SHENZHEN Built in the 90s, Diwang Dasha was China’s first and tallest skyscraper. Overlooked by more skyscrapers today, here’s a new look of the city. About the size of the Ruhr area, the white…
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Place de Brouckère
Video recording, me shooting back at the webcam on the Place de Brouckère, Brussels. This webcam is installed on the 5th floor of the Continental Hotel. It has a fixed view on the Place de…
Promiseland
“I want to go to America! I want to leave my fatherland, my Germany, to found another home on the other side of the sea.” Excerpt from a letter from Julius Schlickum shortly before emigrating…
PARADISE 4.0
MAPPING SHENZHEN Huaquinagbei is a shopping paradise of superlatives, here one flagship store and electronic market joins the other. Contemporary music infuses the visually clearly designed and tidy urban space and takes the viewer into…
Klassenverhältnisse / phantoms of perception
When you watch a film, you should be experiencing simultaneously a maximum of pleasure and a maximum of revulsion about life. Jean-Marie Straub Kunstverein in Hamburg: Klassenverhältnisse / phantoms of perception bis 27. Januar 2019…
Town Hall Marl
Ludger Gerdes: Neon piece (“Angst”), 1989, light installation, metal, colored Plexiglas, neon tubes, approx. 180 x 700 x 32 cm, Marl. The neon sculpture “Angst” shows the eponymous lettering between the pictogram of a golfer,…
CHINA SILICON VALLEY
MAPPING SHENZHEN Huaquinagbei did not deserve the nickname for nothing. Here, buildings are lined up with buildings in which the electronic marketplaces line up seamlessly. Here you can buy everything the digital heart desires. The…