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SECRET DIARY
Becoming self employed has been a big issue for the last two years. One reason is, that a lot of people around me have quit thier agency-jobs and started to find new ways of working, the other reason is that German po...
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SPRINGHORNHOF
This summer Wibke, a good friend of mine, was working at the art-association "Springhornhof" in Neuenkirchen, a small village out in the country. As I visited her, I had my first contact with landscape-art. I think...
HAPPENING
HIGHSCHOOL OF BUILDING ARTS GRADUATE SHOW 2003
The HFBK is the "Highschool Of Building Arts". It is the place to study fine arts, industrial design, visual communication, sculpture, architecture etc. Each year the students show their work in a large exhibition all...
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ARNE JACOBSEN “ABSOLUT MODERN”
On the occasion of his 100th birthday the "Deichtorhallen" in Hamburg presented an exhibition of Arne Jacobsen's work. He was a Danish architect who worked from the 30's to the early 70's. Because of perfectionism he ...
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ELEMENT WEISS
The couple Bea Demel and Carsten Voeller started their own multi-media agency sometime ago. Bea studied graphic-design and didn't want to work in an agency. Carsten formerly was an industrial-programmer and decided to...
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BOGOMIR ECKER “THE STALACTITE MACHINE”
The "Galerie der Gegenwart" (Gallery of the presence) is the established place for contemporary art in Hamburg. I am long term impressed by one piece that was installed there from the very beginning. The stalactite ma...
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BETA LOUNGE HAMBURG
This time I am writing 'live' from the Beta-Lounge. The idea of Beta-Lounge is to do online-concerts, which means that musicians and djs play music at somekind of club and send their music out into the world via inter...
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MINIATUR WUNDERLAND
Miniatur Wunderland is the name of the world's biggest digital model railway. Four men, who have been running a discotheque in Hamburg, realized their childhood-dream. With a team of 16 people around professional mode...
HAPPENING
URBAN DISCIPLINE 2002
Some day, the four longtime-graffity-artists Daim, Daddy Cool, Tasek and Stohead founded the "Getting Up" -collective. Apart from spraying onto canvases they also organise exhibitions, plan wall-paintings and design w...
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MOJO CLUB
One of the most tasteful clubs in hamburg is the "Mojo Club". It opened up in 1991 and had several side activities like a shop, a lounging club and a record series. We met Leif Nueske, one of the founders, to ask him ...
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BLINKENLIGHTS
When Berlin was split into East and West, the Alexanderplatz was the eastern central place for shopping and and its radiotower called "Alex" is now the emblem for the dynamically evolving area of the town and B...
PEOPLE
NORBERT BAYER
What's next when the game is over? Do the robots sleep? Are the pixels lost? Will the circuit boards calm down? I had my chance to find it out at gallery Hinterconti at an exhibition on game over realism and the qu...
