As museums around the world seek to make their collections and displays more inclusive of non-Western art, how are German institutions responding?

Various venues, Berlin, Germany

With Art Cologne acquiring abc – art berlin contemporary, what can be expected from the new fair Art Berlin? And what will become of Gallery Weekend?

daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany

Nativism and the backlash against contemporary art: AfD, Pegida and a recent protest in Dresden

Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

The best shows opening as part Berlin Art Week

Anna Teixeira Pinto speaks with Simon Fujiwara about the promise of happiness in a world gone awry

On art, architecture, and domestic effects of digitalization

A roundup of the 12th Gallery Weekend Berlin

A round-up of the best shows in the German capital

Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany

What’s behind the proliferation of animals in recent artworks?

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
20.03.15-21.03.15

An interview with Berlin-based artists Dani Gal and Assaf Gruber, the organizers of the ‘Closer to Gaza’ benefit auction

Galerie Barbara Weiss

Ana Teixeira Pinto is a writer from Lisbon, currently living in Berlin. She is finishing her PhD at Humboldt University, and is a regular contributor to the art magazines von100 and Mousse, among others.

After being asked to write this list it slowly started to dawn on me none of the films I enjoyed this year were released in 2013 and the two books I most wanted to recommend – Oxana Timofeeva’s History of Animals: An Essay on Negativity, Immanence and Freedom (Jan van Eyck Academie) and Hito Steyerl’s The Wretched of the Screen (Sternberg Press) – both turned out to have been published in 2012. So there, I just smuggled them in anyway, but promise I will stick to the rules from now on …

Speculative Realism in Germany

Three new publications on socially engaged art by Claire Bishop, Creative Time and Pablo Helguera