For the original German version of this text please visit pokusberlin.com Helga Sophia Goetze’s work is often referred to and read as Art Brut. She described herself as “the greatest
For the original German version of this text please visit pokusberlin.com I often wake up with an earworm that I can’t really explain. A song plays incessantly in my head
In early January I went to the festival Tanztage Berlin 2020 in the Sophiensæle to attend a contemporary dance performance. Before we, the spectators, were allowed to climb the stairs
The play ends, but the performer who earlier introduced himself as the writer Thomas Melle just keeps sitting in his armchair, one leg casually rolled over. Under halting applause, two
Hito Steyerl’s video installation This is the Future (2019), a garden of the future, is a composition of digital plants: screens blossom on metallic stems. The garden was conceived by artificial intelligence
The first time I moved to Berlin, I went directly to the Pergamon Museum. I had dreams in my head. Dreams about the Ishtar Gate and the Mshatta Hall. The first
Around the old tempel People dance everyday, they sing, they celebrate joyfully. Little fires are lightened to keep the giant warm. And he opens secretly his doors, which are not
In all live performances, there is an exchange between the performers on stage and there is a exchange between the performers and the audience. These two levels of communication must
Two bodies move slowly and devoutly, moving towards and away from each other. Every movement is fluid. The moments of monumentality, when the breath almost falters and the tension is
Emil Nolde’s political position is made clear from the beginning: he has clearly positioned himself for Hitler’s Reich since 1933 and has tried with all his might to have his
