Even when she was a child, the supernatural was omnipresent for Karla Knight. Her father wrote books on "extrasensory perception," investigating topics such as the occult and UFOs. [more]
Especially now, in view of the pandemic and the political conflicts in the USA, art can offer a refuge. What role could and should art play in times when culture and the economy lie idle and inequalities and racism are becoming increasingly evident through Covid-19? [more]
Lada Nakonechna lives in Kyiv, the capital of a country that has been in a state of emergency for years: strikes, protests, and, not least, armed conflict with Russia have shaken Ukraine severely. [more]
In Israel, the situation is easing again. In the second lockdown, however, our ArtCard partner museum, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art also remained closed for a long time. [more]
Milan’s Fondazione Prada, one of Deutsche Bank’s ArtCard partner museums, is using the temporary closure of museums and cultural institutions in Italy as an occasion for an intellectual online experiment. [more]
Most people still understand abstraction as a concentration on form. It is viewed as an art movement which is used to express aesthetic ideas, orders, philosophical ideas or inner feelings, but which does not have much to do with everyday reality. [more]
The Family of Man was the title of the legendary exhibition that the American photographer Edward Steichen put together for New York’s MoMA in 1955. [more]
In the summer of 2020, amid Black Lives Matter protests, twenty-eight museums and institutions around the world joined forces to stream Arthur Jafa’s video Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2017) online for two days free of charge, thereby also taking a stand on the murder of Georg Floyd. [more]
Most people still understand abstraction as a concentration on form. It is viewed as an art movement which is used to express aesthetic ideas, orders, philosophical ideas or inner feelings, but which does not have much to do with everyday reality. [more]
On the occasion of the exhibition Time Present – Photography from the Deutsche Collection at Berlin’s PalaisPopulaire, Deutsche Bank launched a new talk series in September 2020 in which international artists discuss their work and the artworks in the corporate collection with curators and journalists. [more]
The New Museum will begin the new year with a long-planned and still ongoing project: In 2018, the museum invited curator Okwui Enwezor to organize the exhibition Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America. [more]
Lockdown number two: Across Europe, culture cannot be experienced “first-hand” right now, or only to a very limited extent. But of course during the holiday season we have plenty of time to deepen and go on a voyage of discovery. [more]
A decade ago, Deutsche Bank initiated the Artist of the Year award. The concept was completely new at that time. [more]
He was a rebel of German postwar painting. At the beginning of the 1960s in Berlin, the painter K.H. Hödicke was one of the spokesmen for a small group of impetuous young lateral thinkers who sought to revolutionize painting. [more]
The fact that contemporary African photography occupies an important position in the Deutsche Bank Collection is due, among other things, to the curator Okwui Enwezor, who died in 2019. [more]
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Deutsche Bank Collection, the PalaisPopulaire in Berlin is showing “Time Present,” the largest presentation of international photographic art from the collection to date. [more]
Now visitors to the PalaisPopulaire can have pictures explained by MIA, a museum assistant making use of artificial intelligence. But what is the point? [more]
Hamburger Kunsthalle: The Absurd Beauty of Space
Supported by Deutsche Bank
