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Cockfighting in Nicaragua: cruelly parallel everyday life in a world ofmachismoElyla from Managua shows us in Berlin's Galerie Thumm what can be seen when Latinos dream of a world without violence. Why this also concerns us in Berlin. Culture

Art instead of advertising: Ólafur Elíasson wants to bring creative visions to London andBerlinFor a better, intact world: artist Ólafur Elíasson wants to replace consumer animation from London's Piccadilly Circus to Berlin's Ku'damm with "Lifeworld" poetry. Culture

Soup on van Gogh's "Sunflowers": British activists sentenced to prisonsentencedTwo supporters of the Just Stop Oil movement throw tomato soup on a painting by the artist Vincent van Gogh. Two years later, the verdict is handed down in London. News

Artist Vanessa Cardui in Berlin: "You have to be careful what you say!what you say!"In October, Berlin's most important buildings become a canvas for light. A meeting with Vanessa Cardui, the artist who will be illuminating the Brandenburg Gate at the Festival of Lights. Berlin

When Paris discovered itself: Monet painted the city as a stage for the new bourgeoisiebourgeoisieIn the Alte Nationalgalerie, we experience the transformation of old Paris into a modern city. It is the farewell exhibition of director Ralph Gleis. Culture

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German Television Award with Barbara Schöneberger: "Is there only one presenter in Germany?one female presenter?"Panorama

Palmer on Green Youth: Now the "hostile takeover" of the party endsPolitics

After scandal in the Thuringian state parliament: Court clarifies question of guilt - AfD losesEastern elections

After the Green quake: Christian Lindner only wants traffic light under one conditioncontinuePolitics

Open letter from the Berliner Zeitung to Der Spiegel: Where does this desire fortactical foul?Politics

Ai Weiwei's work smashed: perpetrator celebrates, security guards interveneinterveneA 57-year-old man somehow managed to get past security in Bologna. He then knocked a sculpture by the Chinese artist to the ground. Ai Weiwei has now also reacted to the incident., Susanne Lenz Culture

Over after only two years: The popular Little Grosz Museum is giving upAfter its spectacular foundation in 2022, the refuge for the paintings of the famous Berlin bourgeois terror George Grosz has to close again Districts

GDR photographer Barbara Berthold: obituary of a Berlin art rebelThe photographer and documentary filmmaker Barbara Berthold was an artist with a cool eye and a warm heart. She died on September 21 in Berlin-Pankow. The obituary. Culture

Mariupol's Hotel Continental in Berlin: a hub for art in exileThe Hotel Continental was a center for contemporary art in Mariupol. Destroyed in 2022, it lives on in Treptow as a magnet for exiles. Krenzlin Berlin

Concentrated power of color: the "savage" Maurice de Vlaminck outraged his opponents andpainted the newThe Barberini in Potsdam introduces us to an exciting chapter in art with this French avant-garde artist, who was as passionate as he was reactionary in his old age. Culture

Between sofas and foam: the spatial wonders of Harry NurievCulture

CDU district administrator cancels refugee exhibition in Pirna: Now the church steps insteps inEast Germany

The Minsk in Potsdam shows surreal scenes from the black neighborhoods ofLA.Culture

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An interview with Sven Regener from Element of Crime: You can't bake an egg on Berlinbake an eggHis band Element of Crime is turning 40, Charly Hübner has made a movie about them. Time for the important questions: Was everything better in the past? And why not? Culture

Horst Milde invented the Berlin Marathon in 1974 and brought it to the center of the city. His son Mark took over in 2004. 58,212 runners will start on Sunday - a record. Berlin

One year after the elections in Poland: Has Donald Tusk become an autocrat?Conservative politicians in Poland claim that the liberal Donald Tusk is fighting the opposition. Is that true? An analysis. International

Children at war: are Russia and Ukraine exchanging displaced young people?The Gulf state of Qatar claims to have brokered an exchange between Moscow and Kiev. Ukraine denies this. International

Despite the Green quake: Habeck carries on as if nothing had happenedThe Green Party leaders are resigning, the traffic lights are wobbling - who cares? The Green Minister for Economic Affairs is in a good mood at his first public meeting after the "big bang". He wants to fight on. Politics

In his new novel, Sven Pfizenmaier follows the trail of two ex-junkies in search of a meteorite through a dreamlike, bizarre Berlin. The review. Culture

Israeli army spokesman Arye Shalicar talks to the Berliner Zeitung about the successes of his troops, the demonstrations on Berlin's streets and the role of ARD. International

Typical Berlin: Why a successful bookshop has to close after 28 yearshas to closeThe Klemm couple's store in Friedrichshain is doing really well and is also extremely popular in the neighborhood. The fact that it has to close shows what is going wrong in this city. Districts

Obituary of art collector Christoph Müller: A patron by professionChristoph Müller was one of the most generous donors of art in Germany. Now he has died in Berlin at the age of 86. Culture

Berlin Art Week: Mariechen Danz is like Plato's caveThe Berlin-based Irish artist transforms the special exhibition hall of the Berlinische Galerie into a huge display and receives the Gasag Art Prize at Art Week. Culture

Berlin Art Week: Rirkrit Tiravanija has liberated art - with a soup ladle in his hand.soup ladle in handThe most important exhibition of Art Week takes place at the Gropius Bau and asks why shared experiences are so fundamental. We ate soup with the artist. Berlin

A celebration of documentary photography: Ostkreuz at the C/O dismantles the myth of theAfter the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Ostkreuz photo agency was founded in Berlin. The C/O Berlin celebrates this time with the magnificent show "Dream on - Berlin, the 90s". The review. Krenzlin Culture

One that burned brightly: With Christoph Schlingensief on aStill highly controversial: the art of the civic terror Christoph Schlingensief. The Crone Gallery is showing this particularly memorable Art Week highlight. A real blast. Berlin

Berlin Art Week: Andreas Mühe shows what can happen in the midst of democracycan happenRAF, NSU and "Friday the 13th": The Berlin photo artist continues his terrorism series with fictional scenes at Berlin's Galerie Bastian. And has a critic. Pankow

Berlin Art Week: These 10 highlights you should definitely not missHundreds of openings and events all over the city: It's Berlin Art Week and the program is once again megalomaniacal. Here are our selected tips., Ingeborg Ruthe Berlin

Cinema posters after the First World War: scary demons and oppressed women

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Berlin Art Week: The Polish artist Magdalena Ciemierkiewicz stands for a newculture of remembranceBerlin Art Week

Annette Hauschild, Wolfgang Tillmanns: Artists support BerlinFlussbad AssociationThe works of 50 photographers, painters and architects will be auctioned off by the Grisebach auction house on Thursday in the Red Hall of the old Bauakademie. Krenzlin Berlin

At the start of Berlin Art Week: artists are not propaganda speakers

Berlin Art Week begins: the photographer Candida Höfer captures humanexperiences in space and timeDuring Berlin Art Week, the Berlin Academy of the Arts honors the great photographer with the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024. by Ingeborg Ruthe Berlin

Jewish Theater in Berlin: An exhibition in remembranceOn September 11, 1941, the Jewish theater in Kommandantenstraße was closed by order of the Gestapo. Now an exhibition commemorates the Jewish theater makers. Theater

Opening of Berlin Art Week 2024: How a parking lot becomes a garden of the artsbecomesFree and outside: Berlin Art Week 2024 starts on September 11 at the Gropius Bau. 300 events are planned. What can we expect? What can't we miss? Berlin

Freedom and art: art exhibition for freedom lovers in the BerlinMusic BreweryFrom September 11 to 13, visitors can admire art in all its forms at the Musikbrauerei. The works are linked by the theme of "freedom". Exhibitions in Berlin

Lichterfelde: The Mäusebunker becomes a cultural hotspot in SeptemberIn September, the Mäusebunker in Lichterfelde will become the center of a festival that focuses on urban culture. Here's what's on the program. Steglitz-Zehlendorf

From Friday, the Weitlingkiez in Lichtenberg becomes an art mileLichtenberg

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The painter Friedrich Kunath: teacher of emotionsBerlin

Wittdorf's legendary GDR cycle "Youth and Sport" at the Day of the OpenMonument DayThe striking prints by the "socialist" gay artist Jürgen Wittdorf, rescued from a flea market auction, can be seen this weekend at Haus Berlin on Strausberger Platz. Berlin

Rügen, Caspar David Friedrich and the new ruins: How the LNG terminal inMukran destroys nature

forgotten?A survey becomes the art installation "Erosion" at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The Pilecki Institute wants to raise awareness of Poland's role in the Second World War. Berlin

desecratedThe feminist, pacifist painting by East Berliner Annemirl Bauer in the foyer of Humboldt University has been desecrated. Can the graffitied and scratched work be saved? Berlin

The rescued Rieckhallen are now a "museum in motion"The redesigned hall area at Hamburger Bahnhof opens after 16 months with a thrilling solo show by Californian Mark Bradford and plenty of space for young art. Berlin

Portraits by Roger Melis: From Seghers to Biermann, the "PrussianIcarus"The Pankow Gallery is showing portraits of artists by Berlin photographer Roger Melis, who died young. Berlin

Abstruse imagery in the East Stüler Building: Surrealism celebrates its birthdayThe summer-and-autumn exhibition at the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection in Charlottenburg asks how we can deal with our fears. France

Sculptor Sylvia Hagen's gestural signs: "They just come along like thatGDR

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Exhibition at the Alte Försterei: Ostkreuz photographers on the Eisern and their fanstheir fans

Landmark of unity in Leipzig under threat: is it art or can it go?A famous mural from the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 is threatened with destruction - because of a new building. Politics

The scent of the rainbow: an exhibition seeks a path through the noseAt the Barber Institute Birmingham, you can connect with a blind beauty through smell. Perhaps the idea is better than the real experience. Exhibitions in Berlin

Exhibition in the Eierhäuschen: The dilapidated Spreepark through the eyes ofchildrenThe exhibition "A Wonderful World" uses the dilapidated GDR amusement park to playfully ask what spaces and worlds we want to see and inhabit. Berlin

Showdown of the enemies of democracy: Andreas Mühe's death masks of terrorAn undisguised look at the banality of evil: Berlin-based photo artist Andreas Mühe stages likenesses of the RAF and NSU in a stark Leipzig exhibition. Culture

What does Berlin's brand new golden lizard in the sculpture garden of theNationalgalerie?Berlin artist Alicja Kwade presents the Neue Nationalgalerie with a memorable paraphrase of the striking Berlin symbol: as a symbol of peace and love. Berlin

Jeanne Mammen's magic booth on Kudamm between Apple and ArmaniThe studio of the artist, who died in 1976, has been faithfully preserved on Kurfürstendamm to this day. This is thanks to her friends, but also to Martina Weinland. Berlin

Stadtmuseum Berlin: Sophie Plagemann is the new directorThe Berlin City Museum Foundation will be headed by Sophie Plagemann from September. She has announced that the museum will become even more accessible. Berlin

Sandra Hüller sings at the premiere of the Ruhrtriennale: That's how it wasMusic

Court confirms: No investigations against Documenta 15 artists foranti-SemitismPublic prosecutor's office

Exhibition on queer Andy Warhol in Berlin: It could hardly be more unimaginative and shallowhardly possible

Paola Malavassi leaves Das Minsk: What's next for the Kunsthaus inPotsdam?Since its reopening, she has helped to build up the building with its GDR history and turned the café into a new café and excellent art house. Now Paola Malavassi is leaving. DDR

Banksy's animals in London: what is the street artist trying to achieve with his zoo?A cat, two elephants, three monkeys and lots of fish: Banksy amazes his fans and critics with his animal series. There is already a possible explanation. London

Banksy work number 7 this week: Fish on a police houseSeven days, seven animal pictures: There was also a new Banksy work in London on Sunday. But it looks a little different from the others. Facebook

The great Kasper König has died: he invented the profession ofexhibition organizerKasper König was one of the most important and influential curators in the country and internationally. Now he has died at the age of 80. An obituary. Berlin

Banksy number 6 is a cat: this is apparently behind the animal picturesSix days, six graffiti: an unusually large number of Banksy works have appeared in London this week. Some are already talking about a zoo. There are also clues as to what the artist is up to. Facebook

woundsIn "Arctic Hysteria", the Greenlandic-Danish artist Pia Arke, who died young, tells a legacy of the trauma of colonialism suffered by Inuit women. Berlin

Fifth Banksy work this week: Pelicans decorate fish & chips storeWhy is artist Banksy posting animal murals all over London? This week's fifth work is in Walthamstow - and unlike the last one, it's not so easy to take away. London

Fourth new Banksy work emerges - and is immediately stolenLondon

New Banksy artwork in London: A goat in solidarity with Palestine?Facebook

From the series "Stumbling texts": It is possible to treat people worse than cattletreatedNational Socialism

Journey into the blue: Marc Chagall immortalized himself in Great Britain - inchurch windows

Berlin art author Nicola Kuhn wrote a personal book about tabooed family legacies. Debate

Fluxus in St. Matthäus at the Kulturforum: Heretical high on the transientearthly worldThe holy-unholy Fluxus movement of the Western post-war avant-garde runs riot in the church hall of St. Matthew's at the Kulturforum. An encounter with the famous Conz Collection. Berlin

Free and for everyone: Berlin's Museum SundayFor three years now, one admission-free day a month in the city's museums has been a successful model for culture, art and education. Culture

Ostkreuz photographers become local chroniclers for Berliner ZeitungThe Berlin agency Ostkreuz, founded in 1990, has become a model of success. And from August, the photo reporters will be cooperating with the Berlin publisher: as local chroniclers. Berlin

Künstlerhaus Bethanien bids farewell to its director ChristophTannert with "Sounds of Bethany"The exhibition "Sounds of Bethany" is both a retrospective and a current look at 50 years of one of Berlin's most important art institutions. Berlin

Sculptor Christoph Mertens sets a sign against war with "SEIT" in Treptower ParkTreptower ParkIn the idyllic rose garden of Treptower Park, Berlin artist Christoph Mertens has created "SEIT", a sign against the never-ending acts of violence of our time. Berlin

On Boris Lurie's 100th birthday: His pictures say no to violenceBerlin

Painting star of the Golden Age: Frans Hals at the Gemäldegalerie BerlinBerlin