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Adela Yawitz

Adela Yawitz is a curator and writer based in Berlin. She founded and ran the 2-year performance program ASSEMBLE, as well as curating exhibition and performance programs at KW Institute for Contemporary Art and the Volksbühne theater. She completed her BA in Art History at Columbia University in New York and her MA in Comparative Literature at Potsdam University.

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The Realized Fantasy of Visiting an Empty Museum

by Adela Yawitz July 1, 2020November 5, 2020

I had previously wished to have the tourists and school groups disappear, but as Berlin museums reopen, it feels reassuring to see famous artworks still up, but also eerie to see them without a large audience.

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In a Changing Berlin, Artists Face Rising Costs and an Inflated Gender Pay Gap

by Adela Yawitz September 10, 2018September 12, 2018

The figures in a new survey by a Berlin artists’ association point to the general struggle among artists to support themselves through art in a city that is becoming less affordable every year.

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Two Berlin Filmmakers Reflect on Germany’s Racial Dynamics

by Adela Yawitz August 3, 2018August 4, 2018

In their films at the Berlin Biennial, Natasha E. Kelly and Mario Pfeifer address the growing divide in Germany between the politics of liberal inclusion and on-the-ground ignorance, racism, and suppression.

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Curators Test Ties Between Science, Art, and The Colonial Imagination

by Adela Yawitz June 18, 2018June 21, 2018

An ongoing investigation into the impact of 19th century botanical adventurers on culture shapes questions posed in an exhibition in a now defunct Veterinarian College.

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How Freedom Was Aestheticized During the Cold War

by Adela Yawitz December 8, 2017December 9, 2017

The House of World Cultures’ exhibition tells the story of the Congress for Cultural Freedom’s use of an aesthetic of freedom, and contextualizes the lasting legacy of modernism within the geopolitical power struggles of the Cold War.

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An Inclusive Documenta Succeeds Despite Curatorial Failures

by Adela Yawitz July 5, 2017July 5, 2017

The most successful arc of Documenta 14 is not accomplished by any of its symbolic gestures, but through the consistent and merited presence of non-white, non-heteronormative artists throughout.

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A Polish Curator Is Fired in Berlin, Exposing Two Countries’ Political Blind Spots

by Adela Yawitz December 13, 2016December 13, 2016

Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska was abruptly fired, following growing political differences with her colleagues ever since Poland’s right-wing party came to power last year.

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A Computer-Generated Coliseum that Will Disintegrate for 1,000 Years

by Adela Yawitz December 8, 2016

Sitting in the 20-meter-ceilinged space of the Boiler Room watching this infinite building disintegrate infinitely slowly, you cannot help but feel infinitely tiny.

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The Internet’s Supposed Invisibility and the Fantasies It Fuels

by Adela Yawitz June 22, 2016June 21, 2016

BERLIN — If we could see the inner workings of the internet, the cabled intestines that run between our walls, under our cities, and across oceans, would we grasp what the internet really is?

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