* its tapped!   

o´zapft is, the barrel at the oktoberfest in münchen, to celebrate that and the artist

of this impressive and contemporary maytree..

hank schmidt in der beek. here with anne and katharina at his exhibition last month in the kunstverein hamburg.

we are  late to post this, since the exhibition is already over  but you can still see hanks paintings

at niklas schechinger fine arts in hamburg.

above some of his collages and one of  his verses,( mhh, he is a poet as well).

very witty, über- full of references, ironic and aesthetic work. go see!

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* an island in the city   

is wilhelmsburg , a workingclass district in hamburg and maybe the upcoming williamsburg of the city. last week we went there to see the ´recreation´ part – the  art-part, of the dockville festival which starts this week and visited the summer- party of wcw- gallery there as well.

brad downey´s wall  tending upwards and poltergeist sound- wall by tim vets and erki de vries.

artist erki de vries happy at ´recreation opening, tim kaiser showing his logo of the festival on cotton-shopper.

summer drink at wcw gallery: pimms bowle

fun at funky concert of christian naujorks.

inside the gallery and hui-hui and friends outside .

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* cn   

on sunday was an opening at the new dependance of german gallerist christian nagel in antwerp.

not on photo: painted with his tongue: dennis tyfus, xavier marie soundscape installation, mirrow frames

by carla arocha and stéphane schraenen and vacuum- cleaner- pink pudel by vaast colson.

below and through glass: hui-hui friend daniel dos santos´ works.

performance by cédric stevens in xavier marie rocks, more floating than rocking.

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* when it rains   

… watching ´my- so – called – life´ . the 90ties make us feel at home in a way.

so many flowered dresses and chequered shirts, great style in our humble opinion

and the dark voice of claire danes is schmoozing our

hearts just as much as jared leto does.

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* the colour purple   

this was something we still wanted to show.

the first pages of the the catalogue of ´a  specter from the land of if ´

by outlandish photography. beautiful.

more of our visual hunger was satisfied at the opening of the exhibition ´internationale kunst aus der sammlung reininghaus, köln´at the ´collection falckenberg´in the south of hamburg.

we saw there more colours from wolfgang tillmans:

colours and structures by clay ketter

and an overkill of motion, screens ans images by jon kessler

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* outlandish   

is a platform for young photographers. current exhibition

´a specter from the land of if ´ just opened last week at the gallery of the antwerp  foto-museum.

in fact the show is less than half of the project. to understand the apparant randomly presented

works, you should have a look at the catalogue where each photographer presents a selection

of pictures from the huge archive of the  museum. Those images mark the startingpoint for

each of the contributers search of  a new subject.

mhh magic michèle matyns series of poster- sized polaroids:

funny, very him and a selfportret in disguise the work of frederik heyman:

contributing also:  sarah gerats, fien muller,  sarah van marcke, simon vansnick.

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* collecting   

tiled floor in summercastle, belgium, paintings from katharina trudzinski and the prey of benjamin verdonck

presented at m hka , antwerp.

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* it takes more than two strawberries to make a summer   

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* beyond hills and trees   

Here some images from katharina´s exhibition

at number four in zentrum kreuzberg, berlin.

Some more work of hers and hui-hui you can see at konk in

berlin mitte.

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* defilé   

allways a little nostalgic to see the show of the royal antwerp academy.

and impressive and inspiring.

failed to take sharp pictures, so this is a blurry impression on what you should defintely have a look at:

the work of all these talented people.

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