Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism

Ruins at Auschwitz-Birkenau (BBC)
Ruins at Auschwitz-Birkenau (BBC)

Since 1996, Germany has a memorial day for the victims of National Socialism on the day the Concentration Camps in Auschwitz had been liberated by Sowjet troops. Continue reading “Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism”

Embedded Art – Art in the Name of Security

Smart Casual Bulletproof (Jacques Coetzer 2008)

On January 23rd 2009 at 1900h, the exhibition Embedded Art – Art in the Name of Security in the Akademie der Künste (Academy of the Arts) will open in Berlin.1 The exhibition’s concept was designed by the artists’ group BBM (Beobachter der Bediener von Maschinen, Observers of Operators of Machines) that exists since 1989, together with the Akademie der Künste. Continue reading “Embedded Art – Art in the Name of Security”

  1. Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin, Tel. +49-30/200 57-1000 ↩

Michel Valentino: Valkyrie – Return of a Myth

 Michel Valentino’s disturbing Works on “Valkyrie – Return of a Myth”

Reading on the current coverage of today’s German release date of the movie Valkyrie,1 I came across the both impressive and disturbing works of Michel Valentino.

Facing the Truth (Michel Valentino, 2007)

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  1. See the Wartist entry on the German movie title; the European premiere of Valkyrie was on 20 January 2009. ↩