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20.03.2014
13:00

Meet the Staff Part II (Thessaloniki Edition): Curator Maro Psyrra

Greece is one of the European countries hit the hardest by the ongoing economic crisis. With co-curator Maro Psyrra we talked about the consequences of the crisis for the exhibition, the staff and the museum. On a lighter note we also chatted about her PhD, her favorite artists and one of her favorite pieces: an installation by Leda Papaconstantinou called ‘Genet’s Toaster’.  


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31.01.2014
14:14

Meet the Staff (Thessaloniki edition): Curator Alexios Papazacharias

More often than not, when people become really enthusiastic about something and they make it their passion and pursue this passion professionally, they can remember one moment in which all of that became clear to them.

For Alexios this moment was when he encountered Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ on the cover of a book. He was twelve or thirteen at the moment and remembers that that was the moment in which he decided he wanted to be in the arts professionally. As a professional viewer. For him ‘it was a funny coincidence that Duchamp’s last work was Étant donnés: 1 la chute d'eau / 2 le gaz d'éclairage’ - a work on viewing and voyeurism. 


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24.01.2014
14:21

A Restaurant called Restaurant in Berlin – Fofi’s Story

The New York Times wrote in 1987 in an article titled ‘Berlin by Night’ that ‘John le Carré sends one of his characters in a melancholy mood to Berlin: “Scared of himself he hastened to a fashionable Greek nightclub he knew of, run by a woman of cosmopolitan wisdom”.’ This woman is Fofi and this is her story (and how we met her):  


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Happy New Year! (And what happened last year)

Dear all,

we hope all of you had lovely holidays with family and friends and an equally lovely New Year’s Eve.

Our past year was filled with excitement, new friendships, exhibitions ending and new ones opening, lots of work but also lots of fun and we hope it was the same for you.

What all happened? 


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Wiebke Hauschildt(hauschildt[at]dhm.de)Comments 0
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10.09.2013
13:57

‘The Desire for Freedom’ – Now as smartphone app!

‘Good things come to those who wait’ – our exhibition app is finally and officially in the stores!

It took us a while, but after all this is our first exhibition application for smartphones and there are definitely things you only learn during the process of developing. Anyway are we smarter now, have an app and it’s free!

There is an iPhone version as well as an Android version. 


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