The Christoph Schlingensief retrospective at MoMA PS1, titled simply Christoph Schlingensief, seeks to capture the career of an artist whose practice is particularly ill-suited to an exhibition.

“Tötet Helmut Kohl” (“Kill Helmut Kohl”) read the banner that got German artist Christoph Schlingensief arrested. It was 1997, and the sign aimed at the conservative chancellor was part of his project ...

A new documentary portrays the enfant terrible theater director, performance artist and filmmaker Christoph Schlingensief, who died 10 years ago. "The word all-round artist always sounds odd, but ...

Christoph Schlingensief, who has died aged 49 of lung cancer, was a mercurial figure in arts and politics in Germany, as a film-maker, theatre and opera director, installation artist and deviser of ...

Milos Stehlik is Director of Facets Multimedia and Worldview's Film Contributor. His film commentaries air on Fridays. Today looks at the strange life and work of Christoph Schlingensief. In 1998, ...

A diminutive Queen raises her arm in a Hitler salute and bakes swastika-shaped cookies. Princess Diana is in bed alongside two men with Down's syndrome. Camilla has animal blood thrown at her. In his ...

GOETHE FILMS features core Schlingensief projects that tackle the ghosts of Europe's past, present and future – fascism, capitalism, division and reunification – in his signature no-holds-barred ...

Christoph Schlingensief, a filmmaker, theater director and political gadfly who made it his life’s work to upset German complacency and the status quo, died on Saturday in Berlin. He was 49. His death ...

Still from Schlingensief’s ‘Passion Impossible: 7 Days of Emergency Call for Germany,’ 1997 (Courtesy estate of the artist/MoMA PS1) Theater led him to public art performances. In 2000, after a ...

In this film we take you on a tour through the Julia Stoschek Foundation’s exhibition “What a Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem” at the historic Variety Arts Theater in Los Angeles. Gropius Bau ...