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Celebrating Craftsmanship - DAMN° Magazine

Celebrating Craftsmanship

Artisans from all over Europe are brought together in Venice to show their unique skills

The Rhythm of History and The Everyday - DAMN° Magazine

The Rhythm of History and The Everyday

Artist Cevdet Erek uses percussion to amplify universal memories in our next installment of The Life and Times of Istanbul.

True Fiction - DAMN° Magazine

True Fiction

The 57th Venice Biennale

Michelangelo Pistoletto: One and One Makes Three - DAMN° Magazine

Michelangelo Pistoletto: One and One Makes Three

at the Basilica di San Giorgio, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, until 26 November 2017

Glass and Bone - DAMN° Magazine

Glass and Bone

Jan Fabre in Venice

Dirk Braeckman creates new work for the Belgian Pavilion - DAMN° Magazine

Dirk Braeckman creates new work for the Belgian Pavilion

on view at the 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, 13 May —26 November

At Home in Germany? - DAMN° Magazine

At Home in Germany?

The bittersweet immigration issue

Gigantic Inflatable Refugee arrives in Kopenhagen on 23rd of May - DAMN° Magazine

Gigantic Inflatable Refugee arrives in Kopenhagen on 23rd of May

On May 23rd and 24th Belgian visual artists Schellekens & Peleman will sail with their 6m high art work ‘Inflatable Refugee‘ on the Danish wooden galeas ‘Hawila’ in the port […]

Blinded by the Light - DAMN° Magazine

Blinded by the Light

The 54th Venice Art Biennial With a biennale as world renowned as that of Venice, it is naturally difficult for it to live up to its own reputation time and […]

Space Invaders - DAMN° Magazine

Space Invaders

53rd Biennale di Venezia Making Worlds is the theme for the 53rd edition of Venice’s Art Biennial, which was curated by Daniel Birnbaum. With the art world in meltdown and […]

Upside Down Under - DAMN° Magazine

Upside Down Under

Shaun Gladwell at the Australian pavilion Shaun Gladwell is back in Venice. Two years ago he came here to present his skateboarding piece Storm Sequence. During this Biennial’s edition the […]

Stains of Time - DAMN° Magazine

Stains of Time

The Ethics of Dust: Doge’s Palace, Venice Pollution is bad, no? Well, although Jorge Otero-Palios, who is Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University, is not advocating we all […]

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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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