Personal Best 2015: Filme

Fabelhaft:

Under the Skin von Jonathan Glazer (2013)

Victoria von Sebastian Schipper (2015)

und:

2 days, 1 Night von Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne (2014)

Night Moves von Kelly Reichardt (2013)

Station to Station von Doug Aitken (2015)

This must be the place von Paolo Sorrentino (2011)

Außerdem:

La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser (The Legend of Kaspar Hauser) von Davide Manuli (2012)

Im Keller von Ulrich Seidl (2014)

Die Lügen der Sieger von Christoph Hochhäusler (2014)

Alps von Yorgos Lanthimos (2011)

Les salauds (Bastards) von Claire Denis (2013)

The Duke of Burgundy von Peter Strickland (2014)

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night von Ana Lily Amirpour (2014)

What We Do in the Shadows von Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi (2015)

Brand new, I’m retro:

A Dangerous Method from David Cronenberg (2011)

Le Havre von Aki Kaurismäki (2011)

Mitte Ende August von Sebastian Schipper (2010)

This Is Love von Matthias Glasner (2009)

L’amico di famiglia (The Family Friend) von Paolo Sorrentino (2006)

Grizzly Man von Werner Herzog (2005)

La Moustache von Emmanuel Carrère (2005)

Until the End of the World von Wim Wenders (1991)

Speaking Parts von Atom Egoyan (1989)

Family Viewing von Atom Egoyan (1987)

Next of Kin von Atom Egoyan (1984)

Airplane! von Jim Abrahams, David Zucker und Jerry Zucker (1980)

The Omen von Richard Donner (1976)

Chinatown von Roman Polanski (1974)

Il gatto a nove code (Cat O’Nine Tails) von Dario Argento (1971)

Night of the Living Dead von George A. Romero (1969)

Personal Best 2015: Platten

Fabelhaft:

Banks – Goddess (2014)

Opeth – Pale Communion (2014)

Minus The Bear – Omni (2010)

und:

New Order – Music Complete (2015)

Peter Gabriel – Back to front (2014)

Kindness – Otherness (2014)

Sinkane – Mean Love (2014)

Kontakte der Jünglinge – Makrophonie 1 ‎(2014)

Andy Stott – Faith in Strangers (2014)

Außerdem:

Jamie XX – In Colour (2015)

Mind Over MIDI – Monolog (2012)

Sade – Bring Me Home (2012)

Blood Orange – Cupid Deluxe (2013)

Belle & Sebastian – Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (2015)

Brand new, I’m retro:

The Beat – Special Beat Service (1982)

Fun Boy Three – Wiating (1983)

Tori Amos – Welcome to Sunny Florida (2004)

Tracks:

New Order – Singularity + Tutti Frutti (2015)

Personal Best 2015: Konzerte

Fabelhaft:

The Notwist @ ATP 2.0 „Nightmare Before Christmas“, Prestatyn, Wales, 27.-29.11.

Morton Feldman: String Quartet No.2 + Phill Niblock: Music and the Movement of People Working + Burkhard von Harder: Narbe Deutschland + Leif Inge: 9 Beet Stretch @ The Long Now, Maerzmusik, Kraftwerk Berlin, 28.-29.3.

und:

Terje Rypdal Band, Stadtgarten, Köln, 25.1.

Kraan, Harmonie, Bonn, 25.4.

Sleaford Mods, Gebäude9, Köln, 26.4.

Selvhenter, Jazzhouse, Kopenhagen, 16.5.

Motorpsycho, Von Spar feat. Ada @ Fusion, Lärz, 25.-28.6

EA80, Zakk, Düsseldorf, 3.7.

Die Nerven, Harmonie, Bonn, 22.10.

The Notwist @ Weekend Fest #5, Stadthalle Mülheim, Köln, 20.11.

Braids, Föllakzoid @ ATP 2.0 „Nightmare Before Christmas“, Prestatyn, Wales, 27.-29.11.

Außerdem:

Steven Wilson, E-Werk, Köln, 20.3.

Patti Smith Band plays Horses + Tori Amos @ Primavera Sound, Forum, Barcelona, 27.-30.5.

The Notwist @ Ritournelle, Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, 15.8.

Health + Stephen O’Malley & Nadine Hilbert & Gast Bouschet, *Biosphere & Deathprod, *Oren Ambarchi @ BEAF Brussels, 8.-10.10.

Tropic of Cancer @ Blackest Ever Black 5th Anniversary, Berghain, Berlin, 30.10.

Personal Best 2015: Ausstellungen

Fabelhaft:

Phil Collins: My Heart’s in My Hand… (HAU2, Berlin, März)

Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse: Ponte City @ Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015 (Photographers‘ Gallery, London, Mai)

Peter Doig (Louisiana, Humlebaek, Mai)

Olivo Barbieri: Images 1978-2014 (MAXXI, Rom, Juli)

und:

(Un)Möglich – Künstler als Architekten (Marta Herford, Februar)

Richard Mosse: The Enclave (Louisiana, Humlebaek, Mai)

Sophie Calle: Modus Vivendi (Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Mai)

Ryoji Ikeda: supersymmetry (Brewer Street Car Park, London, Mai)

Sammlung + International Light Art Award 2015 (Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst Unna, Mai)

Constructing Worlds – Photography and the Architecture in the Modern Age (Museo ICO, Madrid, August)

Doug Aitken (Schirn, Frankfurt/M., September)

Stan Douglas: Interregnum (Wiels, Brüssel, Oktober)

The Problem of God (K21, Düsseldorf, November)

TeleGen – Kunst und Fernsehen (Kunstmuseum Bonn, Dezember)

Michelangelo Antonioni – Il maestro del cinema moderno (Eye, Amsterdam, Dezember)

Außerdem:

Blow-up: Antonionis Filmklassiker und die Fotografie (c/o Berlin, März)

Niina Vatanen: Beyond the Visible Surface (c/o Berlin, März)

Antje Ehmann & Harun Farocki: Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, März)

Jeff Wall: Tableaux Pictures Photographs (Louisiana, Humlebaek, Mai)

Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden (Tate Modern, London, Mai)

Ernesto Neto: Haux Haux (Arp Museum Rolandseck, Mai)

Soundscapes (National Gallery, London, August)

Feminismen (Nordsternturm, Gelsenkirchen, August)

Atelier Van Lieshout: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Ruhrtriennale Headquarters, Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, August)

Petrit Halilaj: She, fully turning around, became terrestrial (Bundeskunsthalle, Oktober)

Saskia Bodekke & Peter Greenaway: Gehorsam (Jüdisches Museum Berlin, November)

Personal Best 2015: Bücher und so

Fabelhaft:

David Shrigley: Weak Messages Create Bad Situations (2014)

und:

Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá: Sex at Dawn – The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (2010)

Erik Davis: Techgnosis – Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information (1999)

David Stubbs: Future Days – Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany (2014)

Magnus Mills: All Quiet on the Orient Express (1999)

Daniel Kehlman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

David Byrne: Bicycle Diaries (2009)

John Waters & Bruce Hainley: Art – A Sex Book (2003)

Wolfgang Müller: Subkultur Westberlin 1979-1989 (2013)

Virginie Despentes: Apokalypse Baby (2010)

Außerdem:

Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010)

Michael J. Sandel: What Money Can’t Buy – The Moral Limits to Markets (2012)

Haruki Murakami: 1Q84 (2009-10)

Annett Gröschner: Walpurgisnacht (2011)

Martin Aston: Facing The Other Way – The Story of 4AD (2013)

John Gray: The Immortalization Commission (2011)

Periodika:

The Wire

Sight & Sound