The Forbidden Photos: Liu Xia in Berlin

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A pinned-down, kiwi-faced doll. Untitled photograph, Liu Xia.

In China not only intellectual, dissident artists have a tough life – think political repression, threatening, even imprisonment – their partners suffer, too. Liu Xia is one of those – she is the wife of Liu Xiaobo, writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner and dissident of China’s leading party. He has been in prison for almost five years now and Liu Xia herself has been under house arrest since 2010, although she was never charged with a crime. Continue reading “The Forbidden Photos: Liu Xia in Berlin”

Ai Wei Wei Exhibition in Berlin: Record Attendance and a Missing Artist

Iconic objects of art: 6.000 wooden stools for "Evidence", Ai Wei Wei's Berlin exhibition
Iconic objects of art: 6.000 wooden stools for “Evidence”, Ai Wei Wei’s Berlin exhibition

“Evidence”, Ai Wei Wei’s most recent exhibition in Berlin, Germany, closes with a record attendance of almost 250.000 visitors within 14 weeks. The exhibition was one of the largest ones by the Chinese artist so far, with Berlin’s famous Martin Gropius museum building being the ideal location, offering spacious exhibition halls for Ai Wei Wei’s art installations.

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