lise uduak // berlin » Art http://blog.uduak.org Lise Uduak. Born and raised in Denmark, Greenlandic blood in my vains and living in Berlin. This blog is meant to inspire, inform and entertain. Bringing you closer to Berlin and to me. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:45:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 “I’m not interested in how people move; I’m interested in what makes them move.” http://blog.uduak.org/2011/11/im-not-interested-in-how-people-move-im-interested-in-what-makes-them-move/ http://blog.uduak.org/2011/11/im-not-interested-in-how-people-move-im-interested-in-what-makes-them-move/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:59:53 +0000 admin http://blog.uduak.org/?p=4716 Philippina “Pina” Bausch. A German performer of modern dance, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director. One of the leading influencers in the world of modern dance since the 1970s (until her death in 2009).

Helmut Newton’s “Crocodile Eating Ballerina”, from the Pina Bausch Ballet ‘Keushleitslegende’, Wuppertal, 1983.

Wim Wenders’ film Pina was presented at this year’s Berlinale. The first 3D dance film has been in the works for a couple of years, initially halted when Pina Bausch passed away during early stages of production.
The film features a number of her works, including “Café Muller,” “Sacre Du Printemps,” “Vollmond” and “Kontakthof.”

]]> http://blog.uduak.org/2011/11/im-not-interested-in-how-people-move-im-interested-in-what-makes-them-move/feed/ 0 Rejecting Adolf Hitler http://blog.uduak.org/2011/10/rejecting-adolf-hitler/ http://blog.uduak.org/2011/10/rejecting-adolf-hitler/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:27:47 +0000 admin http://blog.uduak.org/?p=4679 One of the most succesful sculptors of the mid-20th century. Georg Kolbe. (1877-1947).

After the death of his wife, Kolbe produced only male figures expressing grief and loneliness. Then turned to a more “victorious expression”. A muscular ideal celebrated by the Nazis as the archetype of the racially pure human being. Against Kolbe’s will.

To me, the museum garden looks like Medusa just paid a visit. Transforming everyone who met her gaze into stone (though Kolbe’s sculptures are primarily bronze). Fascinating.

Works by Ernst Barlach, Rudolf Belling, Hermann Blumenthal. August Gaul, Hermann Haller, Max Klinger, Emy Roeder, Renée Sintenis and more are exhibited as well.


“Die Tänzerin” (1912) by Kolbe. Part of the collection at the Old National Gallery in Berlin.

Exterior view of Mies van der Rohe’s, Barcelona Pavilion (1928–29) showing Georg Kolbe’s ‘Morning’ (1925).

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Public is the New Private is the overall theme. How we go about sharing (all kinds of) information and details about our personal life and how “private” as well as “public” is defined today.

If you’re curios, stop by the Sundown Table tomorrow. Or read this introduction on the website (unfortunately only in German)


Public bath in Calcutta, photo by Paula Gortázar.

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Legendary Herb Ritts is on show until July 9th. An artist who is an absolutely must-see for 80′es/90′es freak like me.

]]> http://blog.uduak.org/2011/05/life-through-a-lens/feed/ 0 Part of Bauhaus aka The School of Building http://blog.uduak.org/2011/04/part-of-bauhaus-aka-the-school-of-building/ http://blog.uduak.org/2011/04/part-of-bauhaus-aka-the-school-of-building/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:24:52 +0000 admin http://blog.uduak.org/?p=4373 On show in Berlin until May 15th. German/American multi artist Lyonel Feiniger. Paintings, drawings, photos. A must-see.

]]> http://blog.uduak.org/2011/04/part-of-bauhaus-aka-the-school-of-building/feed/ 0 A true surviver http://blog.uduak.org/2011/04/a-true-surviver/ http://blog.uduak.org/2011/04/a-true-surviver/#comments Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:13:39 +0000 admin http://blog.uduak.org/?p=4367 The Fichtebunker in Kreuzberg. The only one its kind and size still standing. Amazing object! Especially the Gasometer dome. And to think it saved the lifes of thousands of people…

Fascinating history. Google it!

A photo from the Now Open exhibition in 2010 by students from Freie Universität Berlin.

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Berlin based Anselm Reyle.

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