IN CONVERSATION WITH GONZALEZ HAASE AAS
WORDS & INTERVIEW BY RAFAEL SERGI
TO WATCH “THE UPRISING“ BY PAUL GREENGRASS
Greengrass´: “The Uprising“ paints a detailed image of the life in England during the 14th Century. Following the peasant Ploughman and him joining the rebellion, it quickly becomes a drastic depiction of humanity’s insatiable desire for power in all its absurdity and brutality.
IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA RINGSTAD
One of the last shows of Oslo Runway invites to Café Sara: It is here where NEXT Award winner Anna Ringstad decided to set up her show, which quickly turnt into a highly entertaining interplay of hectic models and a mesmerized crowd trying to capture the moment.
IN CONVERSATION WITH AARON PIERRE
Christian Stemmler — ANFANG / BEGINNING: BERLIN 1994–99
ANFANG / BEGINNING: BERLIN 1994–99 captures the raw pulse of post-wall Berlin, a city in flux, alive with…
“FINDING YOUR ARMOUR”: IN CONVERSATION WITH JEWELRY DESIGNER ALAN CROCETTI
“In my experience, finding your armour helps you to stay in touch with those feelings. It grounds them in…
“The darkness is very inspiring for me, it’s where I experience the most emotions”: In conversation with Han Kjøbenhavn
Founded in Copenhagen in 2008, the label “Han Kjøbenhavn” combines its roots in the danish design culture…
WEEKEND MUSIC PT. 72: IN CONVERSATION WITH BARAN KOK
Inspired by artists like Kurdo and Haftbefehl, German rapper Baran Kok set out to make a similar kind of rap…
#EMPATHIE: ALICE IN WONDERLAND
“I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I…
WESTSTERN CELEBRATES: NRW´S ART ASSOCIATIONS
THERAPY THROUGH ALTER EGOS
The artist who contributed the Czech half of this year’s “Czecho-Slovakian” Pavilion — the first ever conceived as a mutual concept, for a country that has not existed since 1992 — is now bringing his first solo exhibition to Berlin, or as he calls it: “the capital of dark nostalgia”. A conversation with Jakub Jansa about class, technology, Eastern European legacy and the celeriac.
WHERE CLASS, POWER AND ABSURDITY COLLIDE
In Subterraneans, Czech artist Jakub Jansa brings his surreal world of human-vegetable hybrids to Berlin for his first solo exhibition in the city, curated by Anya Harrison. Between absurdity and political unrest, Jansa turns class, identity and social hierarchies into a world of his own.
FIGHT ISSUE VOL. B – BLASPHEMOUS
“MAN HAS CREATED HIS OWN MASTER, ONLY SO THAT HE MAY EVENTUALLY DETHRONE HIM AGAIN.”
