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 Interview with our new country Director, John Whitehead |
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John Whitehead has joined our team as Country Director this month. He has worked for the British Council in Latin America, North Africa, East Asia and Europe. Berlin is his first posting in Western Europe. In the Interview he talks about his life in Bangkok, the British Council’s priorities in Germany and forthcoming projects. Read the interview |
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Unlimited International is the major cultural programme for the London 2012 Paralympic Games. It will be the largest ever disability arts programme in the UK, creating exciting and quality new work from disabled and deaf artists. It promotes awareness of disability equality and the consideration of disability issues in the arts, in governance and in wider society. Read more |
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 Mona Hatoum |
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Mona Hatoum has been awarded the Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis and is presenting a selection of recent work at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. The exhibition shows sculptures, installations and works on paper that were developed in recent years in London and Berlin. Read more |
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 james dyson award |
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Johannes Simon Schork, student of Industrial Design at the Art Institute Muthesius in Kiel, has won the international James Dyson Award. His project, "Lavaris", an additionial offer for washing hands in public spaces removes the local dependence of the sink to the toilet. Read more |
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| Hofesh Shechter |
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Hofesh Shechter presents his new work Political Mother, the first full length piece for his internationally acclaimed company since he exploded onto the world stage with Uprising/In your rooms. Political Mother brims with Shechter’s emotional and gritty complexity, powerful percussive grooves and a raw and honest physicality. |
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| IELTS - International English Language Testing System |
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IELTS is the world’s proven English test. Over 1.4 million candidates take the test each year to start their journeys into international education and employment. IELTS is recognised by more than 6000 institutions in over 135 countries. In Germany, we're offering tests in 14 cities - simply register online! You can rely on IELTS - the test that sets the standard. More about IELTS in Germany |
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| david tremlett |
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Drawing Rooms, presented at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, is the first comprehensive show of the artist David Tremlett in a German museum since 1992. For this exhibition, David Tremlett has taken over the entire third floor of the Gallery of Contemporary Art with new site-specific wall drawings, which where drafted especially for this place. Read more |
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| Karla black |
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Scottish artist Karla Black, who will be representing her country at the Venice Biennial in 2011, is showing her most comprehensive individual exhibition to date – encompassing ten space-consuming sculptures – at the Kunsthalle Nürnberg. Read more |
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| venice biennale |
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The award-winning architecture practice muf art/architecture Llp have been appointed as Artistic Directors of the British Pavilion for the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale. Instead of shipping the contents of the exhibition from the UK, the British Pavilion has been developed by muf as a series of ‘Made in Venice’ collaborations. Read more |
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For centuries, the myth of the fabled lost island of Atlantis has inspired the imaginations of writers, artists and thinkers.
Ten international artists have been invited this year to create site-specific works exploring the theme of Atlantis. Participating British artists this year are Mat Collishaw und Catherine de Monchaux Read more
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