Beyond Perfection: The pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli’s unwillingness to compromise made him turn into a myth. Even among the various great pianists of the 20th century, he appears as an exception. The unique perfection of his tone had its dark sides though: He is known as overly sensitive and extremely erratic. It is said that he blew off more […]
Marina Abramović – The Art of Listening
Perseverance and stamina – these are the two cornerstones of Marina Abramović’s work. The world-famous performance artist uses the exercises she developed herself to prepare for her long-term performance work. “If you don’t go back to simplicity, we are lost,” is her appeal. Now, for the first time, the relentless artist applies her method to […]
Virtual Tour: Umbo. Fotograf
Virtual tour through the exhibition „Umbo. Fotograf“ with Thomas Köhler (Director of Berlinische Galerie) and Ulrich Domröse (Head of the Photography Collection).
Trailer: Umbo – Photographer
Umbo (Otto Umbehr, 1902 – 1980) symbolises a kind of “big bang” in modern photography of 1920s – as art historian Herbert Moldering put it during his retrospective of the artist in 1995. Exhibition TrailerEdit and Animation: Boris SeewaldProduced by 3B-Produktion GmbH
Trailer: Babylon
Jörg Widmann’s »Babylon« deals with the boundaries of language, and indeed of linguistic confusion. The composer places the multicultural society of the pre-ancient, culturally advanced metropolis of Babylon at the centre of his opera. It is not only the Babylonians who move between chaos and order, but also the Jewish exile Tammu, who forsakes his […]
Trailer: The Magic Flute
For 25 years, August Everding’s production of »The Magic Flute« has enchanted Staatsoper audiences of all ages. But now the time has come for Mozart’s complex masterpiece to be examined anew. And so American director Yuval Sharon carries away audiences to new worlds of images that are no less imaginative, yet aesthetically quite different from […]
