48 hours Neukölln

The festival 48 hours Neukölln has grown to one of the biggest independent art-events in Berlin over the last years. Other than in curated, more or less “elite” or “high profile” cultural events, 48 hours Neukölln is pretty much open to everone and everybody and is not only limited to visual arts – you will also find circles of young writers reading from their (mostly unpublished) works, theater is played in various bars, handcraft and associations play their part. For there are (i do estimate) over a hundred venues to be seen, some as unusual as a “hindu temple” and an “iranian church”, one has a hard time to pick what to see. For the sake of length i will present only some special places and what i found to be the highligts of my personal tour, the quality – as is to be expected in such an open format – differs quite heavily.

I started my way through the thick belly of independent galleries and off-spaces at the Saalbau Neukölln, a communal gallery run by the district.

Saalbau Neukölln – Labor Neukölln 2 – Agora collective

The Agora collective (Caique Tizzi, Renata Har, Marcela Donato in cooperation with Caio Haar) presents objects, very much in the tradition of the objet trouvé, that are linked to the communal environment of the gallery. For this project the Agora collective sent letters to neighbours and residents, asking them to bring an object of their choice to the gallery, that has some kind of special meaning to them. The objects are presented at the backside wall of the gallery, ranging from wooden plates from southern germany to painted ceramic busts to plants. The persons who brought by an object, noted the story behind it on a little entry form. The storys where than spoken in english by one of the organisators (i suppose) and you can listen to them over earphones, while you have a look at the objects.

Until 28th of July, Saalbau Neukölln, Karl-Marx Straße 141, 12043 Berlin

Umspannwerk Richardstrasse

The old abandoned Umspannwerk (relay station) in Richardstraße was a treat from the spaces inside. on 4 floors you have very raw industrial halls, fitting perfectly to show contemporary art. Surely, there is some renovation to be done to use the spaces besides a festival format, but anyways, very interesting layout. The shown artworks on floors 2 to 4 were – sadly – overall pretty bad and not worth being mentioned. My advice: have a look at the spaces, if you have the possibility – and the strange barns in the courtyard were supposedly for sheep. Nobody seemingly knows actually, why they were installed next to the relay station.

Umspannwerk, Richardstraße 20-21, 12043 Berlin

Galerie im Körnerpark

For more insight into the possibilities of a festival like 48 hours Neukölln, we move our attention to the communal gallery im Körnerpark. the Körnerpark itself actually is a very nice, classical park with a fountain, an Orangerie (in which the gallery is located) and has quite a history (the wiki link is only in german). After making a stroll in the nice gardenlike park, you enter the nig terrace in front of the gallery, were a fat flamenco dancing woman was performing rather poorly, if you ask me. The communal gallery shows a very strange exhibition on the virgin mary and places of pilgrimage, linked to the theme of this year: art and cult. The exhibition oscillates between information and unwillingy funny exhibits, naive paintings, photos, statuettes from Lourde and other places, averall not critical or even with an (at least obvious) point of reference besides ginving information on virgin mary pilgrimage. Has in my opinion nothing to do in a communal gallery, but it is again a nice space to visit. In the small room next to it the hobby-painters from the hospital Neukölln exhibited their latest works. Interesting indeed – and actually quite funny but very very bad.

Galerie im Körnerpark, Körnerpark, Schierker Str. 8, 12051 Berlin, exhibition until 28.07.2013

THE M{ }ESUM

THE M{}ESUM, run by Anna Livia Löwendahl-Atomic, is housed in small two room space in Jonasstraße is what you could call an philosophical long term intervention. It has announced itself to be the place where all lost things are stored, although you cannot see or touch or mesure them and nobody knows exactly what is in it. In a way this takes the idea of multiple universes serious, because possibility is a big part of the “non-existing”, on the other hand it negates the linear understanding of time, given the pretext, that everything that has been but is no more is collected in this imaginary space that does not need space. Ah! It is getting complicated. I love it. A second approach to the “non-existing”, the obscure and “never has been” part of the world is the collection of statements on lost things (“I lost my virginity to an ugly guy”), possibilities, experiences never made and so on, donated to the M{}ESUM by the visitors via a specially designed entry-form. The collection of these statements, as  i will call them, ranges into the thousands and may very well be an interesting source of research on what was, has been, never will be and so on. Possibilities, or really decisions really, especially those we did not choose, are a vital part of us and therefore society and reality (which you cannot very good separate). So if you happen to be around Jonasstraße, it is a definite location to visit – and maybe you will be able to play the lottery, as i did, and if you are lucky, you win an artwork!

The M{}ESUM, Jonas Strasse 31, 12053 Berlin, website

The imaginary district – Room E116

The room E116 is a studio house with studio-apartments located in a backyard on Emserstraße 116 (well, that could have been guessed, i suppose). In Imaginary district, the local artists (and possibly friends) exhibit a wide variety of works, most of them had a substantial quality besides of personal taste (what a relieve!). Most interesting in my opinion are the artist book projects done by the inhabitants and associated artists. The (mostly) unique books, some of them done in a collective, arrange drawings, little texts, ideas and gouache to somewhat coherent works that have a distinct notceabilty and range of expression. A selection of the published works can be looked at online on the website of the project space.

E116, Emser Straße 116, 12051 Berlin, contact website for hours and events

There was more to be seen and to be stumbled upon, many an exhibition had interesting facettes, a lot were just – sorry – bas, so this will be it for now. Until next year, Neukölln.

 

 

 

 

Gallery Weekend update 01 – Mitte

Juan Miguel Pozo Cruz, “Horizont”, 2013, Acryl auf Leinwand @ Liebkranz Galerie, Auguststrasse 62

Looking – that is what the girls on the painting above are doing. Other than me, stumbling from gallery to gallery (and often meeting the same persons again, who do the same thing that i do), they are looking somewhere far, probably beyond, as i was trying to look close at the artworks, as one should do.

With 51 openings just in the official program, a conclusive evaluation of the gallery weekend is a herculaneous task. As I am just a humble human, the following small reviews are particles, splinters, fragments of the event. I also do not care for the “official” program too much and visited galleries as well in the program as those who “just” happened to open a show at the same time. I will also try to bring a second update during next week, when the folly is over but the exhibitions take their more “normal”, even silent course of existing (mostly until june). Enough of the preliminaries!

Liebkranz Galerie – Juan Miguel Pozo Cruz: Market

The Liebkranz Galerie is one of the smaller galleries on Auguststraße. I put it in here, because it is one of the more rare painting exhibitions and Mr. Pozo Cruz has an interesting approach. In most of the paintings (see above), he mixes socialist aesthetic figures or architecture with flat, geometrical colour spaces. This gives a certain presence to the more articulated parts of the paintings and stands in relation to the former history of eastern Berlin. Good works, definitely worth having a look.

EIGEN + ART – Carsten Nicolai, crt mgn

One of the real big-shots in the Berlin gallery scene. They represent Neo Rauch nearly exclusively and have an unbelievable backlist oft great artists they work with. As usual for the Gallery Weekend, they show something rather conceptual. The artist chosen this year for the weekend is Carsten Nicolai with the installation “crt mgn” that is based on a distorted tv image and was previously shown in a different setup at Fondation Carlier, Paris. In this work the artist brings together a very clean set-up, references to Nam Jun Paik and sound (in my opinion the sound is the striking part here). Definitely worth a look, also the rooms of the gallery were just renovated, so that is interesting too, especially for those who are familiar with the old space.

Deschler – Holger Bär, Glück

Paintings, a little bit in the fashion of pointillism, a late impressionist movement. The motives are partly ironically but always rather profane – a couple that won at the lottery, a famous castle from a small island in the “Wannsee”, the biggest lake of Berlin, and so on. Those pieces are mixed with abstract “point” pictures, filled with little dots of colour. Intriguingly some of them do evoke the idea of them being knitted. Aside from that there are other artists represented by the gallery shown in the basement. Conclusion: Interesting but not really that great.

DNA – Marianna Vassileva, Fold&Break

Besides of a big “Save” written in black eggs in the middle of white eggs, all of them glued to a canvas, mostly video works. One is showing people playing the french game “boule” in what appears to be New York City (i really liked the old chap in his worn out trousers and his rather funny hat), another one shows a person swinging fire in a basket on a leash, standing in the middle of nowhere. If you are feeling lost, do not worry, i was too – and in regard to fire juggling, you really have seen better.

serious of apes mounted on the facade of a house next to “Neue jüdische Mädchenschule”, author unknown, Auguststraße, Berlin

Camera Works, Neue jüdische Mädchenschule

Wide variety of photographical works by well known photographers, ranging from animal\nature photos to nudes by Helmut Newton. Impressive: Giant portraits of Jack Nicholson as the “Joker” from a Batman Movie. Must see: Alfred Hitchcock, portraied together with the female star of psycho in a rather scaring way in front of the “Psycho” House. Worth visitng, although the other inhouse exhibitions (Eigen+Art lab, Michael Fuchs Gallery) were rather disappointing.

Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Frank Darius: HERE IS PARADISE

Minimalistic photographies, mostly of bend blades of grass, set against a snow background (blinding white). The blades of grass transmutate to calligrafic figures, abstract scribbling, lines that could very well be rather magnificient drawings. Thus transfrming nature, looking at it in a very specified and unusual way, these photographies are a real treat. Some of the best works of the whole parcours.

Hopfen I, Frank Darius, 2011

Neugerriemschneider: Isa Genzken

Certainly real Genzkenesk. The exhibition brings together installations (or rather sculptures assembled from found materials, linked together by the use of dolls) originally invented for the “skulptur projekte Münster” 2007. Definitely not for everyone, but some important works nonetheless. The link to nineties horrormovies (why did they always have to use dolls?) is possibly not intended but rather interesting.

Kunststiftung Poll, Heizhaus, Juan Orrantia: Normalcy

A rather poetic videoinstallation, assembling photos, texts and moving images centering around a massacre that happened sometime in the past in the shown village\town by a big river in what appears to be Colombia (or somewhere else in south america). Through the use of poetical text, the actual place is not as important, the piece is in that way elevated on a level, where it signifies for all happened massacres. A hard but great piece of art. Definitely belongs on the List for the Must-Sees of this Gallery Weekend.

Kunstwerke, RELAUNCH

The only art-Institution in Auguststraße. And rather empty one might say, stumbling into the empty spaces of the ground floor. For her first exhibition (or rather approach) in the house, the new curator in chief, Ellen Blumenstein, chose to empty the spaces and to rethink the possibilities of the floors and exhibition ground as such. There will be also moving in a bookshop soon and an archive of what has happened in the Kunstwerke since the mid nineties will be accessible to the public soon. For those who know the Kunstwerke as an institution and those who want to get to know this important centre for contemporary art in Berlin – possibly entry fee after the weekend. Adults 6,- euro

He must have lost something, Giant Wallpaper on a house in Linienstraße, Berlin

Kuckei+Kuckei, Remise, Miguel Rothschild and others

Because I really do think the exhibition of paintings is not really worth mentioning, we go straight to the “remise”, two showrooms of the gallery at the end of the backyard, where are some interesting works to be discovered. Really great in my view: the works of Miguel Rothschild. Printed out photos from cathredal windows, afterwards perforated, so that they gain a translucid quality of light that resembles that of the original cathredal windows. To present the technique the perforate overlefts are assembled in the frame. Great technique, great sujet, beautifully executed, in short: more than worth having a look.

ON | OFF

Exposition au Salon de 1787, eau-forte de Pietro Antonio Martini (1738–1797) – Paris

The champagne is already cooled and now it is only till tomorrow that the city will be full of highheels under makeuped faces and men in suits standing in white cubes, listening to gallerists and assistants who will counsel them on what they see. Yes my friends, the Gallery Weekend is nearly upon us and it is gigantic as usual: 51 Galleries, 51 Openings, three times good old Hans-Peter Feldmann (even for him this is a lot). So far the official programm – on which we will comment the latter days again. But besides of this “exclusive” circle (exclusive is a relative term, concerning the numbers), all and everyone from institutions like KW (Kunstwerke) to Haus der Kulturen der Welt to small galleries to off spaces is involving themselves in the big event. Really: the circus has come to town and the professionals on the production and sales side are getting their clown costumes out of the attic. After all it is business – and business is more than selling. Attention, in my opinion, is for artists as welll as gallerists the first (and in the beginning probably most important) currency. To be noticed – by curators, collectors, journalists – really means to exist, before being noticed, you simply do not exist. So we will see panicked gallerists trying to sell there showroom standing half on the street as if they were selling fish on a market. You will also see artists wandering through the halls of galleries they would like to work with, visiting exhibitions of admired colleagues, trampling down the paths of hope as so many before and after them will do. As in real estate, location is everything. If you happen to be with your space near the gallery clusters and the big shots who participate in the gallery weekend you might end up lucky – curiosity exists after all in every single one of us., if you are located in (regardind the art world) more remote corners of the city, you stay out of it, or you have to get smart. A goof example is the “Kolonie Wedding”, a loose commune of galleries and projects based around Soldiner Straße in berlin Wedding. They do their own “Kolonie Wochenende” (Weekend) with seven openings and guided tours. A valuable approach, because the off-scene in berlin has as such a good reputation, but on the other hand you do not know the city well enough to find the places, if you just fly over for the weekend. So this kind of “guided” event is probably an attractive one for those who want to discover young talents and get involved in the special Berlin scene besides the big galleries that are – after all – only a small part of it. After last countings there do exist between 500 and 600 galleries, project spaces and off locations for art in the city. Their range in quality and conceptual idea is as wide as one can imagine. It reaches from basic democratic approaches like “Kreuzberg Pavillon“, who managed to show 500 exhibitions over the last three or so years with the intent of not “judging” the art they show, to producer\aritst run spaces like “Lage Egal“, situated in Prenzauer Berg, which will move temporarily into a loft near Potsdamer Straße for the Gallery Weekend to have a better possibility of getting attention, to nearly institutionalised locations like NGBK (New Society for Visual Arts). One sometimes do wonder, if there actually is someone in town, who does know really all (or most) of them. When the dust settles after three days, everyone will be happy and announce that this was the best Gallery Weekend yet, more visitors, more collectors, more VIPs, more whatsoever. There might also be someone who talks from the art-capital Berlin again. In the shadows, beyond the bright lights of media attention, importance and business, most of the actors in this little drama will commence as usual: struggeling with the difficulties of the cultural sector, their work, money, attention. And wait for the fall, when the art-fairs open their doors and the circus does return.

Heaven or Hell?

With the opening event “MACHT KUNST”, a wordplay with the actual act of making art and the power of art (macht in german is as a verb used likewise to create and as a noun as power), the now opened “Deutsche-Bank Kunsthalle” that is replacing the “Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin” is opening itself to the art of Berlin. Everyone – from professional to student to hobbypainter – could bring one of their works to “Unter den Linden” and be exhibited for 24hours in those prestigious halls that have seen Picasso, Matisse, Dan Flavin and so many other famous artists over the last years. The queue this weekend was likely to be big, but it turned out to be enormous, the management of the Kunsthalle was stunned, now they even will do a second event to show all those works which did not fit into the location. The beautifull thing about this performative action conceived by Réne Block, that is probably more art in itself than it is (for the most part) showing to the public, is the total abstinence of judgement if something is “worth showing” or has “artistic quality”. So i will not judge either, even though the event is over by tomorrow 12.00 and most of the works will again vanish into total obscurity. But so much might be said: you have everything – from emerging artists (mostly painters though) up to horses running under a full moon. The old dictum “everybody is an artist” by good Mr. Beuys is taken seriously to a quite high degree and with the needed honesty.

Surely these kind of events have their critics. Some said, the Deutsche Bank is exploiting the artists to advertise their new venue. This is true, although it is also true, that artists do need to advertise themselves and their works too – which is turning out to be probably not too bad given the circumstances and the many visitors (had to wait myself in the queue for about 20 minutes to get in). For the Kunsthalle definitely everything wents the way they wanted to: massive media coverage in print, television, radio.

Please enjoy the (sadly bad quality) pictures below and note the first “serious!” exhibition in the Kunsthalle opens on the 18th of april, showing works from Imram Qureshi, a Pakistani artist who was selected to be the “Deutsche Banks” artist of the year 2013.

Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Unter den Linden 15-16, Berlin

two o´clock, room one

shopping list – olive oil, knitted or printed on cnavas, room one, number 148

Around Town – exhibitions between winter and spring

Around Town – exhibitions between winter and spring.

Exhibition reviews Berlin \ march

Around Town – exhibitions between winter and spring

What is up, Berlin? Well, the Filmfestival berlinale was rolling through the muddy late winterdays, grey as ever and drove attention to the movies which also reflects in some interesting exhibitions. Let´s start with the Hollywoodstar!

Gaytown, James Franco

Gaytown, Installation view@peres projects

James Franco, one knows him from the movies, as a darling of – well – some would say american “indie” cinema, but also starring in blockbusters like Spiderman. As the multitalent he seems to be, Franco also publishes books and – yes – makes art. He paints, he prints (always on the same kind of carpet, there are 378 of them on show in the exhibition), he loops and samples videos (mostly of himself) and he comments. A Gucci jackett hanging from a carpet – written on the carpet: Gucci. A Boulevard magazin phtostory on some Hollywood celebretier: BORING – written in red painted letters. The presentation is obsessive, the sujet oscillates between ironically broken monomania and criticism of the “hollywood machine”. Some other, not so easy to explain topics: sex (what else?), painted fat animals (really FAT), hatred of Spiderman (what was it with Tobey Maguire, Mr. Franco?). Gaytown stands – who has not yet realised – as a synonym for Hollywood and gaiety rather than for the homoerotic facette of that words meaning.

Peres Projects temporary Space
Karl-Marx Allee 87
tuesday to saturday 10-18.00
until 9th of march

Magnificient Obsession, Matthias Brunner

Magnificient Obsession, installation view@Nolan Judin

Well, magnificient is the right word to use with this extraordinary sampling of movies Brunner invented. It all circulates around Literature and cinema – sampling some 36 Films in a 4 channel video projection, especially old Hollywood (50ies and 60ies, Douglas Sirk, Hitchcock, Elia Kazan and others) and the Nouvelle vague of the french cinema (Le quatre cent coups, Truffaut, Le Mepris, Godard and so on). The subtile change of sounds and settings given by this sampling is rather extraordinary and i just advise you to go and see for yourself, if you are around Berlin.

Nolan Judin
Potsdamer Straße 83 (backyard)
tuesday to saturday 11.00 to 18.00
until the 6th of April

How to write I

piece of wood, durham

The last in our cinema related tour de force. The Gallery and Bookshop WienLukatsch, which is celebrating their 25th birthday this year (it is an eternity for Berlin, i tell you!), will host a series of exhibition this year concerning artists and the written word. The written word is also the starting point for narratives beside of the orality. In the first edition of “How to write” however, there are real treasures to be found. For instance Jimmy Durhams work “A piece of wood”, displaying a piece of driftwood and at its side a long, printed story that tells you the (imagined) life of this piece of wood. Also very pleasing: Three paintings by Fluxus artist George Brecht, just white canvas with white applicated words – corner, front, and last but not least – steal me.

WienLukatsch, Gallery and Bookshop
Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3. floor
tuesday to saturday 11.00 to 18.00
until 13th of April

On a short notice

As sadly quite usual with the smaller exhibition this one will be over this weekend: Mehrweg im Dickicht (Reloaded), works by Boris Duhm\Andreas Helfer (cooperative paintings from two very different artists, highly interesting and one – well – “masterpiece” came out of it in the end) and Karsten krause, showing small formats (usually he paints in dimensions like 2meter times 2meters). The three presented their works over the summer of 2012 in a gallery in Lübeck, a small town in the north. Worth visiting, if you get to do it this Weekend!

flyer mehrweg im dickicht

Mehrweg im Dickicht (Reloaded)
Atelierhof Kreuzberg
Schleiermacherstraße 31-37
Monday to friday 14.00 to 18.00

Mixed Signals

flyer for the exhibition

A groupshow with 8 positions of Berlin based artists is on display in the (very nice) communal Gallery in the Haus am Kleistpark in Schöneberg under the title of “Mixed Signals”. Curated by artist\curator Jens Hausmann the presented artists (Isabelle Borges, Juliane Eirich, Frederik Foert, Amelie Grözinger, Jens Hausmann, Christian Henkel, Vanessa Henn and Sven Reile) work in different medias (installation, photography, painting). Although one is missing the link between the works of the artists (as so often in group shows like this), there are some really good works on display.

Haus am Kleistpark
Grunewaldstraße 6-7
Di-So 10.00 – 19.00
until 28th of march

An Anderen Orten

filmstill, taken from “carpeting the ceiling”, stefania migliorati, 2012

ENGLISH VERSION BELOW

Videoscreening zweier Arbeiten von Stefania Migliorati und Rebecca Agnes

am 02.03.2013\ Morgenstern – Galerie \ Budapester Straße 14\ Berlin

Liebe Kunst-Freunde,

die Morgenstern – Galerie freut sich im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Keep me posted!“ für einen Abend zwei Videoarbeiten der auch in der Ausstellung vertretenen Künstlerinnen Stefania Migliorati und Rebecca Agnes präsentieren zu dürfen.
Die Videoarbeiten werden den Abend über als Loop an eine der Wände des oberen Galerieraumes projiziert. Inhaltlich beschäftigen sich beide Arbeiten mit der Veränderung der Wahrnehmung durch das Reisen bzw. den Aufenthalt an fremden Orten und dem Einfluss der Sprache auf das persönliche Erleben.

Video No. 1

Carpeting the Ceiling
Stefania Migliorati
animation video, 1´50“, 2012

Das Video besteht aus einem animierten, mit Bleistift gezeichnetem Selbstportrait und entstand während eines dreiwöchigen Aufenthalts in Peking im Rahmen eines Residency Programms.
Während des Aufenthaltes führte die Künstlerin ein Selbstexperiment durch und notierte jeden Morgen die ersten Gedanken des Tages in dem halb-bewussten Moment des Erwachens. Die Resultate dieses Experiments, das ein gehöriges Maß an Aufmerksamkeit und Übung benötigt,bilden die Basis der Videoarbeit.
Die Idee für diese Arbeit entstand durch die Beschäftigung mit der Frage, welchen Einfluss die Bewegung und das Erleben eines fremden Ortes unsere Sprache und das Erleben der Realität beeinflusst.

Video No. 2

I was here
Rebecca Agnes
2D animation Video, 1´30“, 2012

Der Titel des Werks von Rebecca Agnes nimmt Bezug auf die naive Praxis, sich selbst durch ein Photo vor einem Monument oder durch das Schreiben des eigenen namens auf eine Wand zu verewigen.
Das Video zeigt verschiedene, imaginative Landschaften, die als physische Rekonstruktion nicht existierender Orte aus verschiedenen Romanen fungieren. Literatur und Reisen verändern zusammen unsere Ansichten und verändert unser Erleben. Reisen kann dabei in verschiedener Weise aufgefasst werden: als Körper im physischen Raum, als Ideen oder in Form von Imagination. Die Titel der Romane, die in Form ihrer Originaltitel kommentierend neben die imaginativen Landschaften geschrieben sind, erzählen von Orten, welche die Künstlerin für Besuchenswert hält.

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Videoscreening by Stefania Migliorati and Rebecca Agnes

filmstill taken from “I was here”, rebecca agnes, 2012

Morgenstern – Gallery is pleased to present two video works of two of the artists of the exhibition “Keep me posted!”, Stefania Migliorati and Rebecca Agnes. The videos will be projected in loop during the evening on one of the walls of the upper gallery space. Both works deal with the change of perception through travelling or stay in foreign places and the influence of language on the personal experience.

Video No. 1
CARPETING THE CEILING
Stefania Migliorati
animation video,1’50”, 2012

The video is an animation of a self-portrait in pencil made during a visit to Beijing in spring 2012. During the three-week stay was collected every morning the first thought of the day, that of the awakening. Significant moment between conscious and unconscious. Difficult to stop and requiring attention and exercise. What kind of impact has on our language the movement, the encounter with the other, a different reality/ language? How changes the language? And how long does a language take to become ours? How important is the subjectivity in this process? The video is the result of an experiment. It’s the linguistic report of my brief exchange with China. The title recalls the site-specific installation that reported on the ceiling of the room in which I slept the collected thoughts. Tribute to a passage of Species of spaces of George Perec.

Video No. 2
I WAS HERE
Rebecca Agnes
2D animation, 90 sec, format 16:9. 2012.

The title of the work of Rebecca Agnes recalls the naive practice of immortalizing one’s own presence in a place, by taking a picture in front of a monument or writing one’s name on a wall. The video shows some landscapes that are the physical reconstruction of places that do not exist except in the imagination, fantastic settings of different novels. Literature together with travel affects our view and changes our experience. We travel at various levels, as bodies in physical space, as ideas or as experiences. The selection of novels, which titles are written in their original language, tells about some places worth to visit, from the artist’s point of view.