Issue 4/2015
Over the last few years, almost no other crisis hotspot has begun to shake Europe to the core as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has. Apart from current developments on the refugee policy front, a somewhat incomparably disastrous scenario has developed near the European Union’s external border: on the one side, those who feel more drawn to Europe in its institutionalized form, on the other hand those who wish to assert their own territorial claims at any price. The entrenched incompatibility driving the situation is apparent in the complete lack of agreement even on the terminology; moves that one side describe as striving for independence are dubbed unilateral aggression by the other side, and vice-versa. In the course of this dispute virtually no other cultural context has been exposed to the kind of stress test that has torn at the long-... » read more
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Techno am Teufelsberg
Christian Höller
Bilder einer überimaginativen Welt
Christa Benzer
Offensichtlich – hinter den Kulissen
Franz Thalmair
Alice im Überwachungsland
Gislind Nabakowski
The Quantified Selfie
Nishant Shah
The Saw's Child is the Board, 2015
Image Gallery
Yves Netzhammer
“Tear Off the Masks!”
Why Did Putin Lie About Crimea?
Stephen Holmes, Ivan Krastev
Tightrope (2015)
Image Gallery
Taus Makhacheva
Those Who Meandered Through the Surf
Odessa, ca. 1981–1983
Yuri Leiderman
Odessa. Fragment 205, 2015
Image Gallery
Yuri Leiderman, Andrey Silvestrov
Real Socialism Vanquished?
Owen Hatherley and Agata Pyzik discuss various aspects of post-communist history, politics and art
Owen Hatherley, Agata Pyzik
The Demolition of the Russian Monument at Ayastefanos (2011)
Image Gallery
Aslı Çavuşoğlu
Struggling Against Icons
The Elimination of Soviet Monumental Art from Ukraine’s Public Realm
Yevgen Nikiforov
“Everything Is PR”
How Peter Pomerantsev portrays the new Russia
Marci Shore
Our Common Struggle
Russia, Ukraine and the Role of the International Artistic Community
Haim Sokol
Playing at Politics, Learning to Speak
Documentary Theater by Kyiv’s TanzLaboratorium Experiments with Forms of Commonality
Larissa Babij
Unanswered Questions
An Interview with the Curators of the Kiev Biennale that Never Was
Olga Jitlina
Artscribe
Olaf Holzapfel/Nahum Tevet – The Rough Law of Gardens
Moritz Scheper
Im Inneren der Stadt
Lisa Britzger
Die Kunst der Türken. Modernisierung als Fiktion
Sabine Maria Schmidt
Katrina Daschner – DASCHNER
Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg
tout le monde
Monika Vykoukal
E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology
Walter Seidl
Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz – Loving, Repeating
Christian Egger
Books
Maja Fowkes:
Green Bloc. Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism
Katalin Cseh-Varga
Josch Hoenes, Barbara Paul (Hg.):
un/verblümt. Queere Politiken in Ästhetik und Theorie
Dagmar Danko
Stefan Römer:
Inter-esse
Michael Hauffen
Rike Frank, Grant Watson (Hg.):
Textiles: Open Letter
Yuki Higashino
Marina Gržinić, Šefik Tatlić:
Necropolitics, Racialization and Global Capitalism: Historization of Biopolitics and Forensics in Politics, Art, and Life
Nanna Lüth, Wiebke Trunk