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Jurriaan Benschop

Jurriaan Benschop is a Dutch writer, art critic and curator who is based in Berlin. He is a regular contributor to Artforum International and DAMn* magazine. He published several books, among them De Berg van Cézanne (2006, essays on painting and photography, in Dutch) and Francis Bacon, Graphic Work (2014).

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Visual Clichés

Adrian Ghenie and his colourful noir Adrian Ghenie is a Romanian artist who chooses not to utilise the traditional tools of the painter, but rather to rely on alternative means […]

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Is That Birdsong?

Carsten Höller’s alternative nature   Approaching art-making from a science-of-plants-and-animals perspective, Carsten Höller creates rather unusual works that refer, either directly or indirectly, to one or the other of these ...

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The Museum in Times of Crisis

A snapshot of (arte)facts Though not a cheery topic, it is worthwhile to reflect on the current situation regarding cultural institutions worldwide in today’s less-than-favourable financial climate. Taking as examples […]

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How to Recount History?

Monika Sosnowska on the bent truth Rapt by the mélange of built references to the powerful communist past and the overzealous structures of the present, Monika Sosnowska has every intention […]

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A State of Becoming

Delving deep with Anish Kapoor You would be mistaken to think that Anish Kapoor’s sculptures are all about exquisiteness of form, when, in fact, they are actually about its negation. […]

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Dubbed the “first TikTok war” the current battle raging in Ukraine against Vladimir Putin’s reckless imperialism is taking advantage of user outrage.

As British art critic John Bergen so poignantly said, “Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.” And that’s just what we all want – TikTokers, magazine subscribers, TV addicts, artists, designers, and architects alike.

In the new issue of DAMNº – The Art of Protest – we side with those creatives whose work bites deep, with those who use their craft to protest, and specifically with those who reach out to the public directly as collaborators in that fight against iniquity. We have tried to extend the impact of cultural protest to emphasise those artists and designers who go beyond mere representation and dare to discuss real solutions.

And even if the medium of protest expands in the age of social media, it should be recognized that rough skills as well as cheap accessible materials have always been at the core of protest art – posters then, memes now, photography then, NFTs now.

The kernel usually starts emotional and even angry before the narrative cleans up and moves across the spectrum into polite society where eventually even galleries and collectors become enthusiastic.

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