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30 Oct 20:57	FILM	Ulrike Ottinger: Cinema begins long before the camera rollsPhotographs, drawings, fabrics: to mark the release of “Die Blutgräfin” (The Blood Countess), a portrait of Ulrike Ottinger’s filmmaking through the visual arts.
30 Oct 20:54	LITERATURE	Another prize for Bazyar: How does literary consensus emerge?Two juries, the same novel: Bazyar’s awards show how literary judgements take shape and gain traction in the book trade.
30 Oct 20:49	VISUAL ARTS	What world did the Folkwang’s founder collect?“Nach Damaskus …” (To Damascus …) examines the Islamic arts in the early Folkwang — and the European gaze that selected them.
30 Oct 20:42	STAGE	When Childhood Casts Its ShadowsChristmas classic or uncanny childhood tale? Christian Spuck’s Berlin ‘Nutcracker’ takes Marie’s perception as its starting point.
30 Oct 20:12	STAGE	Who has the right to speak for the common good?A finding is not yet a political mandate: Sapir Heller’s Munich premiere of Ibsen leads into a dispute over truth and the common good.
30 Oct 20:12	VISUAL ARTS	Sophie Calle: Who writes a museum’s memories?Vanished GDR symbols, an abandoned hotel and a new gift: Sophie Calle encounters a museum’s politics of memory.
30 Oct 20:11	FILM	Saving buildings does not necessarily mean preserving a cityWho gets to stay when an old hall lives on? On the Buser film: a look at the contracts behind the conversions.
30 Oct 09:06	EDITORIAL	The Freedom of UncertaintyOn the fragility of artists’ lives, the responsibility of institutions and the courage to relinquish certainties.
29 Oct 17:41	EDITORIAL	On Art, Thought and the Future of the DigitalBernd Bartolome works at the intersections of art, philosophy and artificial intelligence. His work combines artistic research with new forms of knowledge, communication and publishing.
29 Oct 17:16	STAGE	Suzie Miller: How much certainty can the stage bear?When your own family becomes a test of your convictions: what makes Suzie Miller’s ‘Inter alia’ compelling material for the stage.
29 Oct 17:15	STAGE	Off Axis, Into the Pulse: Ballet Between Forsythe and EyalClassical technique in a state of emergency: Ballett am Rhein pairs William Forsythe’s “In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated” with Sharon Eyal’s “Strong”.
29 Oct 17:14	VISUAL ARTS	Lee Ufan: How an art prize becomes a museum acquisitionLee Ufan is to receive the Wolfgang Hahn Prize. Behind it lies a model that combines an honour with an acquisition for a collection.
29 Oct 14:57	CULTURAL POLICY	Who decides which cultural assets are saved in an emergency?Priority lists determine what should be salvaged first. How museums, archives and libraries prepare rescue operations – and what remains unresolved.
29 Oct 14:56	VISUAL ARTS	Exhibiting women artists – and then collecting differently?“HER STORY” explores the women artists in the Albertina’s collection. Donations and knowledge of the holdings reveal what lasting visibility depends on.
29 Oct 14:55	FILM	How much artistic individuality can cinema afford?Three countries, public funding and personal commitment: what Ottinger’s “The Blood Countess” reveals about the costs of artistic freedom.
29 Oct 12:08	EDITORIAL	Accessible, but not ownerlessListening to a work, opening an archive, using data: why we should distinguish more carefully between the things we are entitled to ask of art.
28 Oct 16:26	EDITORIAL	Against the finished storyNot every gap needs to be filled. On a culture that looks closely without defining people and history once and for all.
28 Oct 16:10	EDITORIAL	An open door is not an invitationFree admission helps. But socially inclusive cultural policy must also consider time, travel and the feeling of being welcome in a museum.
28 Oct 15:51	EDITORIAL	Being There Is Not Yet ParticipationArt depicts people; institutions invite them in. But who sets the rules? A case for participation that goes beyond visibility.
28 Oct 14:28	MUSIC	When a concert changes the exhibitionbela is to develop a site-specific performance for Kunsthalle Friart. A concert as an additional event – or as an intervention in the exhibition?
28 Oct 14:28	LITERATURE	Shida Bazyar: The village as contested memoryAn invented place, a suppressed past: Shida Bazyar’s novel asks what home conceals and what literature can bring to light.
28 Oct 14:27	VISUAL ARTS	Anouk Lamm Anouk: Expectations of an Artistic PersonaPared-back painting, queer visibility and the pressure to present an artistic persona: Anouk Lamm Anouk comes to Linz.
28 Oct 14:26	FILM	The stage does not remain. Its traces do.A film drawing on recordings and images approaches Einar Schleef. Yet theatre also consists of what no archive can capture.
28 Oct 14:25	CULTURAL POLICY	Between commissions: who bears the earnings risk of freelance art?A new KSK pillar is intended to cushion gaps in income. The Bundesrat is calling for it – but specific rules and funding remain undecided.
28 Oct 14:25	VISUAL ARTS	Showing illness without defining people by itForty portraits and conversations bring Koelbl’s project to the Kunstmuseum Bonn — and raise questions about image selection, voice and interpretation.
28 Oct 14:24	ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN	Longevity takes more than a durable piece of furnitureAn exhibition in Cologne makes the case for repairable, circular design. What matters is not just the material, but also what remains possible after purchase.
28 Oct 14:24	STAGE	Fallada’s ordinary people and the big question of securityIn Fallada’s novel, a young couple fight to avoid sliding into poverty. Luise Voigt stages the novel in Frankfurt as a revue spanning an era of crisis and the present.
28 Oct 14:24	FILM	A machine as a friend: Who pays for human connection?An artificial friend is meant to ease loneliness. Ishiguro’s story asks who orders this intimacy – and who bears its cost.
28 Oct 14:23	STAGE	Erfurt’s new theatre leadership: transition is part of the programmeRota is expected to take over in 2028, Jagels as early as 2026. In between, Theater Erfurt will not simply be keeping things running, but preparing for its future leadership.
28 Oct 10:33	EDITORIAL	The appearance is not the achievementWhat remains after a premiere, an award or a temporary exhibition is decided behind the scenes. That is where cultural policy should look more closely.