Issue No. 135
September 2024
„Country“
The upcoming issue of TEXTE ZUR KUNST is dedicated to the diverse implications and meanings of the countryside for art and contemporary culture. In addition to examining the political appropriation and romanticization of the rural as an idyllic counter-concept to the urban, it focuses on the urban exodus of Berlin’s cultural practitioners to the surrounding countryside, especially to the Uckermark, a rural region in Brandenburg. Conceived under the shadow of upcoming state elections in three German federal states in which the far-right AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) is steadily gaining influence, the issue also sheds light on the cultural and political consequences of the current shift to the right.
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