I’ve Seen the Wall

I’ve Seen the WallOn the Ambivalent Simultaneity of Things In the midst of the Cold War, legendary African American jazz musician Louis Armstrong was the first US artist to tour through the GDR. Taking this historic event in 1965 as a starting point, DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam examines the ambivalence of this official invitation against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the Vietnam War, and the Iron Curtain in Europe. While Armstrong

From No Return: The 221-Year Journey of the Slave Ship São José recounts a portion of African American history as it is being made

These include Miao Xiaochun’s photograph of a vast glass building rising ominously from behind a traditional neighbourhood

Eusebius McKaiser

collecting them and trying to understand the patterns that emerged

installation and object art

and the selection of particular works based on their relevance to South Africa

The selection is complemented by detailed texts on the exhibition’s origins and a tribute by Wim Wenders

and Current Encounters

this catalogue features works by JB Alacu

Organized into four broad disaster-themed scenarios―“Pandemics

How to analyze data settings rather than data sets

while A History of Sex explored the human mating urge in its infinite variety