On February 18, the exhibition „You killed me first“ opened at KW Berlin. It features short films by the „Cinema of Transgression“, an artistic movement that came up in New York in the 1980s. Their aim was to attack the predominating moral and social values by showing extreme forms of sex and violence. Meaning: rape, men beating up women, people shooting heroin and many more exhilierant things. More after the jump.
Boris Mikhailov “ohne Titel” (from the series “Case History”), 1997-1999, Sammlung Berlinische Galerie
Prostitution at Walter König, Pornography at KW, Pushy Kissers at Galerie Lüttgenmeijer – what the hell is going on? Beside all that filthy stuff, a great retrospective of Boris Mikhailov at Berlinische Galerie, loads of exciting artist talks and British conceptual art is to be expected in Berlin’s upcoming art week. Check it out after the jump…
“You killed me first” at KW Institute
We can look forward to another week of exciting movie screenings and great openings: KW celebrates cinematic perversity and New York’s Rock’n’Roll-times with their exhibition about the Cinema of Transgression, Werner Herzog introduces individuals who have been sentenced to death, Bertien van Manen documents the habits of Russian peasantry and Alicja Kwade spins around in circles. See all details after the jump…