Me there is something truly magical about a fast food staffed. And looking at what the world of arts and culture has in store for us in Twenty Eighteen. But first we look back at twenty seventeen and odds twenty ones highlights of the year. January set the bar high with the opening of the old film only in hamburg all the troubles with Cost Overruns and Construction Delays were as good as forgotten replaced by genuine excitement and an endless rush of visitors to concerts and the viewing platform. Come out has really reinvented itself as a city of culture but lynn is still in the midst of construction in two years the
its helps give african artists a Confidence Boost but it hasnt been without controversy since the people behind it are all white. Everything different that was also the Guiding Principle behind the fourteenth document the worlds most important Art Exhibition took place in two locations in Two Thousand And Seventeen its home of castle and the greek capital athens that was appealing but also quite expensive economically the documenter ended in the red distinctly it remains contentious. Politically motivated double exhibition its main themes were social criticism displacement and the plight of refugees this double documenta insisted the current Contemporary Art can also come from old or dead
harassed by soon other major figures in the world of film and politics were also implicated before twenty seventeen was through Time Magazine honored the silence breakers behind the me too movement as its Person Of The Year seldom has a past had meant so much to so many. Draws to a close as turbulent as barry kosky. By avoid for me that was the premiere of the year it provided a totally new look at the walk not biting and sarcastic. At the end of the show well tell you the highlights were special looking forward to in two thousand eight hundred. Five artists five stories of people forced to flee their countries and of new beginnings
starting a new life in germany wasnt easy but make a learn german finished high school and went to university and she discovered her love of music her debut album victim of truth makes darvon soul with reggae and afro beat now thirty six nick has put out four more albums and tours europe in the u. S. Her songs deal with god and family as well as violence and social injustice in nigeria. In the city of console we meet another musician a hallmark met when he performs its an act of defiance against the wall. That. Big a member of syrias palestinian minority a half might survive diaster the bombs and hunger hes written a book about his experiences entitled Verdun Singham Or and the birds will sing in it he describes his sheltered upbringing in what was then a Peaceful Syria his blind father who made Musical Instruments and his friends in damascus he recounts how the rebellion began the horrors of the war and his dangerous escape to germany. But time and again his music gave his people solace and encouragement and music literally saved a life he played amidst the rubble in the bombed out streets of his neighborhood you tube videos made the pianist of yarmuk world famous. He kept on playing during the gunfights in the ruins of Yarmuk Islamists captured
and destroyed this area of damascus. I think. We see. Then in twenty fifteen i asked burned his piano and them fled syria he had to leave his wife and two children behind him. Are two of the five artists who tell us their stories in the t. V. Documentary and online special feature after the escape. Sasha astonishing each was born in bosnia but his family fled during the civil war in the early one Nine Hundred Ninety s. In germany he began Writing Fiction and in twenty fourteen blundered leipsic book
fair prize for his novel before the feast. Antonio scar matter left chile following the Military Coup of Nine Hundred Seventy Three he settled in berlin and exile became a major theme in his writing only in One Thousand Nine Hundred nine after the end of the Military Dictatorship could he return home famous Childrens Book author judith fled nazi germany a mother saved one of her first drawings by packing it in a suitcase. Back to matt a year and a half ago he was able to bring his family from syria to germany. Is a trained Music Teacher hed never planned to become a professional peronist. Today its too pleasant for me to play again. With a beautiful friend we will play a song. From germany make some things happen maybe we can
change this crazy war going. On. In late twenty fifteen am was awarded the International Beethoven prize for human rights for his efforts. To become. The law. In some way to play. Only small i believe to still in my country for proof. Has made peace with our past in nigeria and lets our shannon and her life story through her songs. I hope the first is that news it that i do. Is able to. Turn then. Be part of peoples lives. That touch them. Move there motivate them empower them in it in a spiritual way. After the escape the d. W. Multimedia special about people who fled their homelands and rebuilt their lives elsewhere giving others the courage to do the same. Weve got lots more arts and culture for you. Follow us on facebook. The address d. W. Culture. Time now to head to hamburg for an
exhibition of work by photographer peter. That explores the aesthetics of the ordinary. Pay to be a librescu isnt searching for subjects that catch the eye photographers from glossy magazines probably wouldnt notice the images he says he spent five years capturing what represents heimat home and came back with Thirty Thousand pictures. As photographic series is called despite a high marked second time anyone expecting Sentimental Coziness be disappointed. This is a list the hope mine. What im doing is meant to be pessimistic. Its just to
counter this happy clappy feel good stuff that we get otherwise. All we have to do is look around at advertising posters its always hostile fassel Beautiful People if you look at city p. R. Over themselves with loads of inaccurate adjectives that my work is something you actually see its verifiable not something you were led to believe in at least its a world that appears authentic. Though. Theres nothing slick about as he doesnt use photoshop hes interested in everyday life takes pictures of places that to many look more like nowhere then somewhere. A decade ago conveyed a very different image of germany and his first series entitled simply heimat. It was full of romantic landscapes the dwarfed people to insignificance. This seeming innocence that the first series has with the landscapes and these tiny figures in the cortex its naturally interrupted by this and other parts of the country we live in theyre run down Streets Places that we dont go to in hamburg either. This image may be plain but it is a puzzle that inspires the imagination kind of people who live here. And thats a very poetic moment in there for me but all in all this something ironic to. And i think this interface between irony and confession and the embrace of something that many people see is ugly to me theres something truly magical about
a Fast Food Stand from its path as it was. A Fast Food Stand can also evoke the idea of home his subjects are often found in overlooked places in limbo side streets and backyards far away from the usual sights to seeing. Home can be anywhere. I might add to your mother smiths home always involves memory and experience as a person has had. This part will someday represent home for a few kids theyll remember specific smells the exhaust from the ships hanging in the air and the vegetation and when they somewhere at some point encounter the same smells it will remind them of home and everyone has their own individual sense of
home because it is always something that is actually taken along in memory. In the ongoing and the photographer who studied Political Science and sociology is now working on a new project in hamburgs brand new half in City District the transformation is taking place here that interests him hes intrigued not so much by the before and after but the spaces in between. An artist in search of authenticity. So what awaits us in the year to come. Gives us a sneak preview. Are. Talking to chris most recent work is burning back along the most expensive german
t. V. Series ever. The director owes his big breakthrough to a small film run lola run after which he went on to big Budget International productions. Come to quote has won numerous prices throughout his career and now he can award a few to others too and february his head of the jury of the Berlin InternationalFilm Festival of the bell right here on pot some up lots from berlin to the well session has also managed that there choreographer will be a topic of conversation in Two Thousand And Eighteen two. Sasha violence has gained International Renown with her brand of eiji which the physical theater. Shes conquered major european stages with her trademark choreographic offer of work frequently brings dumps into dialogue with architecture. The. The sus about says Dance Company is one of the most popular in the world and then Twenty Eighteen it marks his Twenty Fifth Anniversary will be at the party the. Big thing in art these days is performance but the question is how far can it go as far as violence against the artists own body will get some answers starting in late april from a major solo show and were well familiar with the artist. No one else has radicalised performance up like Marina Abramovitch shes interested in loss memory pain trust what human. Jur of what theyre capable of. In april the blunders const holler in a bomb will be devoting
a major retrospective to this exceptional artist early in his big here but frankford promise is even more art in Two Thousand And Eighteen the city is planning three cultural highlights. An extensive exhibition of Works By Flemish Baroque PainterPeter Paul Rubens opens at the Stables Museum in february. And the t. V. Colleagues will be showing installations by the celebrated South African artist william country. The sherman will host a multimedia show of work by postpunk underground guy calm. So ahead for frankfurt and for venice the tourists throng city where the architecture. No way at the end of may this time the theme is free space. Twenty one is especially looking forward to seeing the german contribution which is
being curated by an unusual team politician. And the founding trio of the graft Architectural Firm in berlin. For eleven years money and a bit love was federal commission for the stasi records agency. Graft architects have designed Apartment Buildings museums bars public buildings and Affordable Housing that common theme in venice is the expiration of limitations of the opening up of the world and the fears that result from isolation and marginalise ation. By the way the venice architect to be an artist said the end of may weve also circled may fifth. In our Two Thousand And Eighteen cultural calendars on that day two hundred years ago marx was born the legendary economist and social critic. He was the hero of the Labor Movement in the Nineteenth Century and a passionate critic of bush was society come months together with his friend treated gangers became the most influential theorists of socialism and Communism Marx his main concern was the inequality created by capitalism. Its astonishing but true marx foresaw many of the problems we face today can we learn from him its worth reading his works at any rate and marks his bicentennial hes a good occasion for that his birthplace of trivia will be honoring him with a major exhibition happy birthday karma its. Two thousand and eighteen also marks a major anniversary for an entire social movement inspired by karl marx the Student Movement whose members are known as the sixty eight generation. These young
people protested against conservative social structures the Vietnam War Repressive Sexual Morals and the failure to effectively address germanys nazi past thousands of students took to the streets and the events of Nine Hundred Sixty Eight came to define an entire generation. This era produced exceptional artists such as sigma pahlka. And Joseph Boys Rebellion and the people change the federal republic of germany because it all for the better for all the sixty eight is responsible for a loss of social values a drop in the birth rate and a crisis in education but the era did produce really great music. Really great vibe so i wish that for all of us in Two Thousand And Eighteen happy new year stay healthy and stay with us season. Moves on the. Part of god and that brings us to the end of this edition of fox twenty one. Next week we get into the holiday spirit with musicians from germany and ukraine. Till then. And alfie doesnt. A Cleaner India part nine of our series founders valley in thirty minutes on d. W. Every journey begins with the first step and every language of the first word and the physical the cohesive germany to punch remember. This is just why not listen to him. Its simple online on your own mild and free. To suffer. D. W. Zealand in course because fake german made easy. G w true diversity. Where the world of science is at home in many languages. On the front of programming go on there itll be a show he says hell get there with our innovations magazine for any. Of us from
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