Ei Arakawa

Düsseldorf, the capital of Germany’s most populous federal state and the economic heart of the Rhine-Ruhr region, has developed an identity as a ‘trade fair city’, with an excellent cultural scene that includes a long list of festivals and cultural institutions.

I’m trying to make a platform where debate and discussion can happen. It’s not about the generosity of giving soup, but somehow about testing the ground for trust.

Münster, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, is a worthy contender for the title of bicycle capital of Europe. Visitors heading to the city's decennial event, Skulptur Projekte, saw bicycles parked or

Arakawa plants wider questions about how any artist can possibly balance the drive for success with the development of creative practice and critical thought.

‘It is the present that is unknowable, unpredictable, and incomprehensible – forged by a persistent commitment to a set of fictions […] Let’s give a body to the problems of the present where they occur so as to make them a matter of agency – not spectatorship,’ writes DIS in their catalogue for the 9th Berlin...

Berlin’s history of internecine violence is visible on its civic surface, a characteristic that holds currency in both mainstream and art tourism; what differentiates these two modes is a style rather than a politics. Who can say what a city means? Gentrification mistakes lack of capital for lack of life, confuses the unexploited with...