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Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin invites scholars, researchers, cultural workers, artists and curators to apply to speak at its digital symposium on African American sculpture around 1900, to be held in January 2027. The symposium explores the legacy of African American figurative sculpture from the early 20th century, with a special focus on transatlantic journeys, networks and ...

This article is part of our feature topic Play. To play is to experiment. It is the way in which children learn social and cultural codes and adults relieve themselves of them. In Umut Azad Akkel’s exhibition at Haus am Lützowplatz, ‘Holding My Drink in the Corner,’ play is mobilized in a way that treads a line between familiarity and distance, inclusion and exclusion…

Group Show: ‘Sites of Relation’ Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 22; 6–8:30pm Exhibition: July 23–Aug 22, 2026 zilbermangallery.com Goethestraße 82, 10623 Berlin, click here for map Clio Marden & Alex Catlin Freytag: ‘FOR A LONG TIME I FELT LIKE THERE WAS MORE TO IT’ Performance: Thursday, July 23; 6–10pm July 24–25; 12–6pm hosekcontemporary.com Motor Ship Heimatland…

Gabriele Stötzer is an artist whose rebellious spirit has propelled her towards a wide range of visual media. Her dexterity in photography, painting and film was sharpened throughout her early life in opposition to the surveillance state of the GDR, which often enacted creative censorship and suppression of political dissent. Stötzer’s year-long imprisonment for “defamation o...

This article is part of our feature topic Play. Is art a game? It’s a question that comes up during a conversation with the artist Kasia Fudakowski about the ways in which audiences relate to her works. The notion of a game suggests winners and losers, which sounds more than a bit like the art world we know. But there is a subtle difference between a “game” and “play”—in the ...