Im Badezimmer mit Gregor Schneider ...

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Commercial films tell you that the most important information is the story, so they're always forcing, forcing you towards the story. For me, the information is everything, it's how we sit at this table together, how you pick up the bottle of water. I'm saying to the audience: Please watch this and you'll begin to understand things in a different way.

— Béla Tarr

TEARIST performing live in 2010 ...

Civilization | Lo V | Headless

She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

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Francesca Woodman

I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

— Anne Sexton

Richard Serra | Double Rift V | 2014

What separates us from yesterday is not a rift, but a change in position.

— Alexander Kluge

"Alles ist Skulptur!" rief mir quasi dieses Bild [von einem Werk Wilhelm Lehmbruck] zu [...] und ich hörte: "Schütze die Flamme!"

— Joseph Beuys; Dank an Wilhelm Lehmbruck

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If you think wearing thigh high stockings
will solve all of your problems
and make you attractive,
you are right.

Gregor Schneider setzt die Reihe der Ausstellungen in der Synagoge Stommeln mit der Arbeit Hauptstr. 85 a fort. Schneider wird als erster Künstler das gesamte Gebäude architektonisch bearbeiten. Sein Eingriff bringt die ursprüngliche Synagoge zum Verschwinden und fragt damit nach der An- und Abwesenheit des religiösen Raumes. Zusätzlich verleiht er dem nun "verlorenen Ort", der bislang nicht über eine postalische Anschrift verfügt, dauerhaft eine eigenständige Adresse.

sqq. Neuerburgstr. 21 | Totlast

In short, landscape is the link between our outer and inner selves.

— Bill Viola

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Bernard Faucon | The rooms of love | 1984 - 1987

I fall daily in love with impossibilities.

— Anne Sexton

Benicio del Toro

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, directed by Terry Gilliam in 1998

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

— Franz Kafka

NEUERBURGSTRASSE 21

They ride along not knowing what connects them, and they will not know it until death.

— Daniil Kharms

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

— Søren Kierkegaard

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Solaris, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972

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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

— Anaïs Nin

KIOSK 61

People haven't lost the ability to feel. They have lost the power to feel.

— Franz Kafka

SANAA | Zollverein Cube | 2014

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Don't ask them for their reasons. Just ask them for their feelings.

— Virginia Woolf

Installationsansicht, Zentrum für internationale Lichtkunst

Mischa Kuball | mies-mies | 2006/07