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A brief anecdote from Ms Flacke, about how she found the Fangor in Łódź, and why for some pictures, you just have to go back once again. 

After our last Tuesday Question explained why there are only 113 artists in our exhibition, but 180 in the catalogue, this Tuesday Question also has to do with the catalogue. Since in addition to our traditional printed catalogue we also have an online version.

But why an online version, and what is it? 

The story of Monika Flacke’s night on the Serbo-Croatian border has meanwhile become a legend for the team, said our intern Cora Smidt-Ott. We see it that way, too. It happened on the way from Zagreb to Belgrade, when our curator Monika Flacke was refused permission to cross from Croatia to Serbia. It was in February, 2009, in the middle of the night, and she didn’t have a passport. But she will tell you herself how it came about and how it played out. 

Bankers on the telephone, bankers shouting, hurried footsteps, and the rustling of clothing: these are the background sounds you would normally expect to hear at the world’s stock markets. For those not at the scene of the action, the rising and falling of stock prices occurs in silence—followed on a ticker.

The Norwegian artist Svein Flygari Johansen, on the other hand, discovered a very individual soundtrack: the Altaelva River.  

‘Overloaded.’ criticised some reviewers. ‘Too many works.’ wrote others. But not one had found it ‘Too empty.’

This edition of our Tuesday Question has to do with quantity. And we posed it to our curator, Monika Flacke: