Today, 15 March 2019, the first “Day of the Art of Printing”, the anniversary of the inclusion of artistic printing techniques in the National Directory of Intangible Cultural Heritage by the German UNESCO Commission, will take place nationwide. On 23 March, Gregor Jansen (Kunsthalle Düsseldorf) and Andreas Schalhorn (Kupferstichkabinett Berlin) will dedicate a panel discussion to the topic “From Pre- to Postdigital Reproductive Art in Brazil and Germany”. The discussion will take place at the Leipzig Book Fair and will be moderated by Ludwig Seyfarth. “The influence of political events and social conditions can be seen in prints like no other art form,” said Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Goethe-Institut, in his opening speech for the exhibition “The Power of Duplication” at the Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill. “This was the case in the Brazilian military dictatorship – as the screen prints by Regina Silveira from the 1970s, which can be seen in this exhibition, prove – but also and especially in the GDR. At the moment, printmaking is experiencing a worldwide trend among both established and young artists … Read the article further on > DEEDS.WORLD <   Image caption: Die Macht der Vervielfältigung, 28.02.-23.03.2019, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Photo: Walther Le […]

For the INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY on Friday, 8 March 2019 the finissage of the exhibition boobs – We Show Breasts! will take place from 6 p.m. at KARL OSKAR GALLERY. The exhibition was curated by Britta Helbig and Saralisa Volm. Bounce. Flaccid. Small. Big. Furrowed. Beloved. Kneaded. Pinched. Filled with milk, silicone or expectations. We are not born with her, but she makes us a woman: the female breast. A sexual characteristic that is supposed to attract the male. A glandular tissue that serves to raise the offspring and yet so much more. Read the article further on > DEEDS.WORLD >   Image caption: Camila Gonzalez Corea – Nipple Act 2 bOObs – We Show Breasts – Finissage – Karl Oskar Gallery | Contemporary Art Berlin – ART at Berlin

until 20.04. | #2410ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts shows from 23rd March 2019 the exhibition BALLAD OF A THIN MAN by the artists Günther Förg and Julian Lethbridge. Günther Förg (1952-2013) and Julian Lethbridge (*1947) come from two worlds – Förg working and teaching at the University in Karlsruhe and later at the Academy in Munich, Lethbridge painting in New York’s Meatpacking District since the heydays of Max’s Kansas City. Their paths never crossed, the connection between the two is not obvious. Upon closer look, however, a story about painting arises, where gesture, tactility, repetition and seriality are paramount. In the meeting of these painters, we are struck with the insistence that constraint and repetition enable expression. As Förg and Lethbridge meet in Ballad of a Thin Man, the second presentation of works by the artists at CFA, the pair appear as the cool and collected conjurers of the poltergeists of the 20th century. The exhibition borrows its title from Bob Dylan, whom Förg and Lethbridge appreciated and valued as a fellow artist, and who, like the painters, carved out a path with humble understanding and quick wit. Detail of the invitation card to the exhibition – Collage of a sculpture by Günther […]

until 06.05. | #2409ARTatBerlin | Künstlerhaus Bethanien shows from 10th April 2019 the joint exhibition COME CLOSE & STEP BACK of the 2018/19 Winsor & Newton fellows Pia Krajewski and Irina Ojovan. The exhibition is curated by Jurriaan Benschop. Ondulating hair styles, meandering endless arms, vases and jugs as protagonists of a pleasurable puzzle game and monochrome surfaces that hermetically cover underlying layers of paint or provide information about the past like a palimpsest – from the 10th century to the present. With “COME CLOSE & STEP BACK”, this year’s Winsor & Newton fellows Pia Krajewski and Irina Ojovan will provide an insight into their artistic practice and show new works in a joint exhibition curated by Jurriaan Benschop from April 10 to May 5, 2019. Following the successful establishment of the Winsor & Newton Fellowship in 2017/2018, selected professors of painting in Germany were again invited to recommend artistic positions from their classes for two places at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Starting October 1, 2018 and April 1, 2019, the scholarship holders* will receive a studio, a monthly grant for living expenses, curatorial and technical support, and a joint exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien for six months each. Exhibition period: […]

until 18.04. | #2406ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei currently shows an exhibition by the artist Barbara Probst. A half-visible cup of coffee is nearly full. A few drips of coffee on the lip of the cup give the impression of someone having already taken a sip. It is positioned on a dark wooden table in the center of a pool of liquid. The liquid is clear, allowing the patina of the wooden table to show through and reflecting the light therein. Is it water? Was there a glass or a bottlespilled? Accidentally or intentionally? These two components in Barbara Probst’s Exposure # 140 would be perplexing enough by themselves. But our eye continues to wander, toward something that looks like part of a person’s arm resting heavily on the edge of the table. And once again, a cascade of questions is unleashed in the viewer: Who does the arm belong to? Where is the person? What are they doing here? What role do they play in this photograph and how are they connected to the coffee cup and the spilled liquid? Barbara Probst, “Exposure #140: Munich, Nederlingerstrasse 68, 09.07.18, 5:13 p.m.”, 2018 Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper, 3 parts: 112 x 75cm / 44 x 29 inches  The scene described could pass as a classic still life if it were not the subject of a triptych whose three images all revolve around a specific moment in the scene, featuring it from various angles. Barbara Probst uses a radio-controlled mechanism to create her Exposures, which allows the artist to simultaneously release the camera shutters from a distance. By this means a series of images is generated which breaks up the supposed reality of the moment into several views. Individual elements are therefore repeated in the […]

until 11.05. | #2405ARTatBerlin | Bermel von Luxburg Gallery presents from 28th March 2019 for the for the 1st year anniversary of the gallery the exhibition “Abstract Writing”. This special exhibition brings together renowned artists from Asia and Europe: Julius Bissier, Fred Eerdekens, Karl Otto Götz, Yuichi Inoue and Shiryu Morita. Bermel von Luxburg Gallery cordially invites for the opening of the group exhibition “Abstract Writing” to discover the artworks by Julius Bissier, Fred Eerdekens, Karl Otto Götz, Yuichi Inoue and Shiryu Morita. Yuichi Inoue YU-ICHI (1916-1985) is one of the most important Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose name is mentioned in the same breath as Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Pierre Alechinsky, Henri Michaux. The critic Herbert Read mentions YU-ICHI in his book “A Concise History of Modern Painting”, in which one of his works is also depicted. Robert Motherwell describes him in his notes as one of the few great artists of the second half of this century. Although his participation at the Documenta II in Kassel in 1959 and his participation in exhibitions in 1963 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and in 1965 at the Galerie Zwirner in Cologne helped YU-ICHI to […]

until 20.04. | #2402ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 21st March 2019 the solo exhibition Album by the artist Uwe Kowski. For Uwe Kowski, painting as an experience is always in the foreground, not the depiction of a motif. His landscapes are not so much representations of spaces or perspectives as attempts to arrange color on the canvas, to place bright surfaces next to dark ones, and to evoke sensations through the combination of different tones of color. Kowski knows exactly about the play of light in modernist painting, he juxtaposes pointillist spots of colour in well thought-out contrast-compositions to make his pictures shine. He puts an idea into each picture in advance, which he invents about what he sees, and then leaves it to the viewer to make his way through the pictures, to enter their whirlpools and to reappear elsewhere. Perhaps in this process they will come across the idea underlying each picture, perhaps a new one will emerge. The titles can serve as impulses, causing one’s own memories to flare up and overlap with those of the artist. Excerpt from a text by Leonie Pfennig Vernissage: Thursday, 21st March 2019, 5:00 – 8:00 Uhr […]

until 18.08. | #2401ARTatBerlin | me Collectors Room Berlin presents from 10th April 2019 the exhibition BEYOND with seven international artistic positions from the Olbricht Collection, who use their respective art forms to explore the subject of the afterlife. Each artist fills a separate space with art in their chosen media, ranging from painting, sculpture, video, installation to printmaking. Works by Jonas Burgert, Jake & Dinos Chapman, George Condo, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, FORT, Kris Martin and Francisco de Goya will be shown. As a kind of vague assumption, sinister threat, or blissful reward, the idea of the ‘afterlife’ has gripped mankind since the beginning of time. Religious promises of salvation, manifested psychosis, and ominous memento mori conjure a nebulous concept of the ‘beyond’. While the depiction of agony and death evokes the transience of earthly life, mythical illusory worlds oscillate between the here and the there, catastrophe and dream-like beauty, the material world and the hereafter. The ‘other side’ is also invariably always much farther removed than that casual phrase may make it sound, something illusively much greater than ourselves that is there to be attained, understood, and discovered. Francisco de Goya, Los Desastres de la Guerra, 1810 […]

until 30.03. | #2398ARTatBerlin | Galerie mehdi chouakri shows from 16th March 2019 the solo exhibition PIÈCE UNIQUE II by the artist Saâdane Afif at the gallery in Mommsenstraße.   Vernissage: Saturday, 16th March 2019, noon – 4:00 p.m. Ausstellungsdaten: Saturday, 16th March – Saturday, 30th March 2018   Image caption: Performance View Her Ghost Friend: 3 Tokyo Sessions at MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2017 Exhibition Saâdane Afif – Pièce Unique II | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 28.04. | #2397ARTatBerlin | Galerie Eigenheim presents from 16th March 2019 the group exhibition “From the Lab to the Studio – New Technologies and Materials in Art” with works by 14 artists. In 2019, EIGENHEIM Weimar/Berlin is the official showcase of the Bauhaus University Weimar for the 100th anniversary of the BAUHAUS. Various exhibitions on current themes will take place at both locations. This exhibition in Berlin marks the start of this exhibition series.  “From the Lab to the Studio – New Technologies and Materials in Art” – this is the title of the first exhibition of the Berlin gallery EIGENHEIM in cooperation with the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and other institutions to open on 16 March 2019 at 7 pm. As “Schaufenster Bauhaus 100” the gallery presents works by students, teachers and alumni from all four faculties of the Bauhaus University Weimar in its rooms in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The series presents the artistic and scientific work of the Bauhaus’s founding site in Weimar today and shows which contemporary issues currently play a role in the disciplines and demonstrates the scientific and artistic examination of them. “From the Lab to the Studio – New Technologies and Materials in Art” marks the start […]

until 04.05. | #2394ARTatBerlin| Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 22. March 2019 an exhibition by the artists Johannes Regin and Aja von Loeper. Johannes Regin provokes our vision with drawings that are often not perceptible at first glance. His works invite us to take a close look and to look through overlapping fragments of traces. Even the smallest deviations, tension shifts in the rhythm of his dot grids, leaking old traces of colour and the remains of signs can move into our consciousness. Regin gets involved with the material he chooses. He immediately knows how large his innumerable dots have to be, recognizes whether they have to be drawn or painted on or whether they have to be engraved, punched or chiseled into the material. Found objects are a counterpart for him, he looks into their stories. Lineal cracks, gaping fractures – he brings all these levels together in their complexity with his exaggerations. Gently touching or set hard, it will evoke a state of suspension. In contrast, the grid dots can rhythmically become flooded waves. The memory traces of our own network resonate, they are not fixed. Regin increasingly undermines his own meticulous set of […]

until 18.04. | #2393ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from 16th March 2019 the exhibition Es ist eh schon alles da (> Everything’s already there anyway) by the artist Carola Dertnig. We are very pleased to be able to invite you to the opening of the first solo exhibition in our gallery in Berlin-Charlottenburg of the Austrian artist Carola Dertnig. Under the title “Es ist eh schon alles da” (“Everything’s already there anyway”), we will be exhibiting photographic, video and text-based works in which Dertnig reveals to us “the deliberate randomness of things” – the things that surround us, or rather the things that we surround ourselves with. The theme is already set in the video piece that gives the exhibition its name: Three girls are sitting in a perfectly arranged living room. The gleaming white of the furniture and the bright sunlight make the room look like a digitally reworked advertising shot. We find ourselves in the former studio of the legendary Viennese artist Otto Wagner (1841 – 1918). The present owner has filled the round, dome-shaped room with a huge range of different furniture and design classics, and she lives in the midst of these as if it were […]

until 04.05. | #2390ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary presents from 30th March 2019 the exhibitions “Eins” with photographs by the artist and actress Katja Flint. The Moment of Being (One) – Internal and External Reality These times of great uncertainty – when suddenly entire patterns of behavior and thinking and social, political and economical agreements, forged over decades of long struggle, are crushed and collapse – these are also the times of introspection and the beginning of a new creative turn. All catastrophes carry – as terrible as it might sound and also be – the birth of the new. One must only be able to sense it and develop the tools to see it. A critical mind is the prime prerequisite of creation. The according susceptibility for measuring these moods and vibes and turning them into new energy is common to all creative individuals, no matter in which discipline they are active in. In such times hatred, anger and brutish, animalistic tendencies in us humans break free bluntly, encouraged and feeling comfortable in the great wave of like-minded people, forcing those who are undecided and insecure to leave their comfort zones, letting themselves be swept away into the new, big, […]

until 20.04. | #2389ARTatBerlin | ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE presents from 22. March 2019 the exhibition FORMS OF INNOCENCE with artworks by Bianca Regl and Sofie Bird Møller. The author Amy Sillman quotes the philosopher Walter Benjamin in her article ‘On Color’ as ‘color is a powerful form of innocence that can subvert the logic of capitalism’. The idea behind our exhibition follows an initiative by the Austrian artist Bianca Regl, who lives in Beijing and has been running a large studio there for many years, where she designs exhibition projects with international artists. Even Regl, like many others, has had to vacate her studio twice already, using the logic of an unbridled globalized capitalism, the logic of the market: where real estate is built there is no room for art. Bianca Regl, Innocent Forms (Tulips) / Azure, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 100 x 80 cm Bianca Regl in her apartment in Vienna. The artist paints images of tulips, examining the question of whether ‘color’ really represents a powerful form of innocence, whether it can undermine capitalism. Regl’s tulip paintings recur in art history as well as in the history of capitalism. In the ‘golden age’ of art, in the 17th […]

until 20.04. | #2386ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin shows from 8th March 2019 the exhibition Simple Present by the artist Frederico Pietrella.  On encountering the work of Frederico Pietrella one is initially bewildered, and automatically asks, how are they made, the precisely detailed portraits, landscapes, urban spaces? The question of his choice of motifs is superfluous. What we are confronted with is everyday life. The view of the clouded sky through the window, the artist’s living room, Berlin’s Tiergarten in winter, and the portraits, frequently of his wife and daughter. Pietrella’s paintings have a strong photorealistic character, however he is quite distinct from all other artists of this current. He completely dispenses with brushes or spatulas in his work. Federico Pietrella paints with a rubber stamp, a date stamp. This assumes an extraordinary mastery of the pictorial space. Before applying the stamp every part of it must be considered, down to the smallest detail. During his daily work it is always set to the current date, and from the work titles one can see the first and the last day he worked on the respective picture. “Simple Present“ serves as a reference to his work with the date stamp.The progress of time […]

until 21.04. | #2385ARTatBerlin | König Galerie (Nave) presents from 9th March 2019 the exhibition THE SERIOUS LIFE OF A RIDICULOUS MAN with works by the artist Erwin Wurm. Erwin Wurm, Bar, 2019, bronze, wood, glass, steel, 182 x 140 x 60 cm, unique  Vernissage: Friday, 8th March 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 8th March to Sunday, 21st April 2019   Image caption: Erwin Wurm, Bar, 2019, bronze, wood, glass, steel, 182 x 140 x 60 cm, unique Exhibition Erwin Wurm – König Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin

until 06.04. | #2383ARTatBerlin | EIGEN + ART Lab currently presents the exhibition Hundred liters of diet ink with works by the artist Igor Hosnedl. Igor Hosnedl’s creatures are bred in test tubes and greenhouses – preferably without sugar, long lasting, but not without additives. Poster-sized pictures with floral patterns and glossy surfaces, pastel-coloured side tables with funnel-shaped vases and cut flowers form a clinical synthesis of the arts. On closer inspection, however, the perfect surfaces have sharp incisions and erosions, and like the half bulb painted in the manner of the Old Masters, they fan out into a multitude of layers (Alphabet still life, 2017-19). The picture with the alphabetically ordered roots and buds reads like a key to Hosnedl’s approach, in which meticulously performed operations distil a multi-layered relief with almost obsessively recurring formal language. Igor Hosnedl, Character from borrowed book, 2019, Pigmente und Kleber auf Leinwand, 210 x 135 cm, Foto: Otto Felber, Berlin  More the laboratory of a contemporary alchemist than a tasteful Art Deco interior, the traditional genres of painting, occidental iconography and classical avant-garde are melted down here. Hosnedl extracts, sublimates and lets different fabrics react with each other. Female figures with flowing hair […]

until 20.04. | #2381ARTatBerlin | DIEHL currently presents the exhibition NeroRossi by the artist Turi Simeti. New works by the Italian artist Turi Simeti (*1929) will be shown. Turi Simeti, 3 ovali neri, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 180 cm Vernissage: Friday, 22nd February 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 23rf February – Saturday, 20th April 2019   Image caption: Turi Simeti, 3 ovali neri, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 150 x 180 cm Exhibition Turi Simeti – DIEHL | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 12.04. | #2378ARTatBerlin | Migrant Bird Space presents from 9th March 2019 the exhibition On Nature and Insanity by the artists Xia Peng, Yu Aijun and Yu Linhan. “On Nature and Insanity” assembles the work of three contemporary artists from China: Xia Peng and Yu Linhan, both based in Berlin, and Yu Aijun, living and working in Shenyang. Each of them tackles the problem of perception in a world that is increasingly dominated by technology and virtual reality. Although quite distinct from another and each different in their approach, their paintings & drawings unite in an attempt to restore a feeling of nature and a natural state of mind — whatever that may mean. It does not come as a surprise that their artistic attempts oftentimes seem to border on the verge of insanity. Yet, “insanity”, as Jean Dubuffet has famously said, “is super-sanity”. It is in this sense that their works function on a meta-level in opening up different perspectives on our “nature”, such as, literally, land- and seascapes, as well as industrial environments and virtual reality. In face of a world in which nature is radically transformed by the artificial, “insanity” might not seem so insane after […]

until 30.04. | #2377ARTatBerlin | Köppe Contemporary shows from 22nd March 2019 the exhibition nichts kommt von nachts (> nothing comes from night) with paintings and paper works by the artist Kevin A. Rausch. Kevin A. Rausch, born 1980 in Wolfsberg (Carinthia) and now living in Vienna, is a prominent international representative of the young generation of Austrian artists. His pictures are created in a mix of spontaneity, calculation and experiment. They are characterized by an exciting expressive aesthetic between realism and abstraction, the art of Kevin A. Rausch draws on many sources of inspiration, Rausch relies on a mixture of many influences. Transitions between ‘High and Low’ are characteristic. The rapid mix of his pictorial language of art, underground, street art and punk design elements reveals references to the young protest culture. Kevin A. Rausch | Green Light, 175 x 125 cm, 2017, Mischtechnik / Leinwand His painting process is, as Rausch once said, “a painting, painting on, painting away, painting over, and applying and removing”. Rausch’s paintings are “sedimentations of materiality”, formulated the Austrian art historian Florian Steiniger. And indeed, some pictures appear as if another dimension penetrates the consciousness from the deep layers – or as if traces […]

until 30.03. | #2374ARTatBerlin | The Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz shows from 2nd March 2019 the exhibition Law of the Instrument with works by Joannie Baumgärtner, Julius Bobke, Hannah-Sophie Dunkelberg, Clementine Edwards, Andi Fischer and Lukas Q. Hoffmann. “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” – A. Maslow, The Psychology of Science, 1966 Law of the Instrument is a group-show that sets particular ways of artistic production in relation to each other. The positions shown approach the pattern of behavior known as “Maslow’s Golden Hammer” in different ways. Instrumental approaches contrast highly idiosyncratic positions, proprietary modes of production are shown alongside performative objects. While artistic success is often related to the myth of originality and uniqueness, the question arises as to how much art history was written with the hammer and whether art as a process is not itself subject to this law. Law of the Instrument seeks to break the mold and highlight a different concept of unconventional artistic production with the works displayed. Vernissage: Friday, 1st March 2019, 7:00 p.m. Exhibition period: Saturday, 2nd March – Saturday, 30th March […]

until 23.03. | #2373ARTatBerlin | Galerie Hunchentoot shows from 2nd March 2019 the exhibition “Strangers in a cloud oder eine Reise in den Randbereich von Rhodopsin” by the artists Jens Hanke (with drawing, collages) and Friedrich-Daniel Schlemme. The gallery cordially invites you to the opening on Friday, 01.03.2019 from 7 p.m. on.8 p.m. Concert as part of the vernissage: Ringela Riemke, Violoncello, plays: Bernd Alois Zimmermann: 4 short studies for violoncello Helmut Lachenmann: Pression for a cellist Vernissage: Friday, 1st March 2019 from 7 p.m., at 8 p.m. Concert: Ringela Riemke, Violoncello Exhibition period: Friday, 1st March to Saturday, 23rd March 2019   Image caption: Courtesy by Galerie Hunchentoot – Jens Hanke and Friedrich-Daniel Schlemme Exhibition Jens Hanke + Friedrich-Daniel Schlemme – Galerie Hunchentoot | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 13.04. | #2370ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from 2nd March 2019 the exhibition Abstrakte Bildwelten (> Abstract Picture Worlds) by the artist Volker Henze. The abstract work of Volker Henze is penetrated by a passionate energy and a pervaded colour sensitivity. His non-representational colour compositions seem to be fluently in motion, radiating a powerful beauty. The painting style becomes spontaneous and intuitive. The encounter of lively, exciting colours with abstract shaping creates an optical illusion, that seems to perceive multiple dimensions within one flat surface. This is how large-format imageries emerge on the canvas that with painterly intensity create a beautiful, vibrant, at the same time expressive world. VOLKER HENZE, F 35 (Rastplätze) 2018, Oil on Canvas, 140 x 200 cm Background: VOLKER HENZE was born in Halle an der Saale in 1950 and finished a study of the painting in 1972-1977at the College of Fine Arts Dresden with a diploma. In 1981 he moved to Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg), took a teaching assignment for painting in 2001-2004 at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee and had a Representation of the Chair of Painting at the Institute for Art and Material Culture of the University of Dortmund from 2004-2006. The works of the […]

until 30.03. | #2369ARTatBerlin | galerie weisser elefant shows from 23rd February 2019 the group exhibition “Weltenwechsel. Oder: wesentlich gewesen”, a contribution to the realism of speculation with works by six artists, curated by Ralf Bartholomäus. Participating artists: Codemanipulator, Kinga Dunikowska, Else (Twin) Gabriel, Astrid Köppe, Anne Rinn, Carsten Schneider Within the sphere of influence of the philosophy of speculative realism, the problem of who is actually speaking for all of us, for the world, for the earth on which we stand, plays a major role. The more we become aware of our origins, the clearer it becomes that things look back at us and their questions: Where do you want to go and how could you forget us? – Is it an it that asks so, a logic without utilization? There are always enough opinions. And a speculatively intended art would be like the compensatorily calibrated fine balance of reason. Josef Vogl already comments on the meaning of realism understood in this way: “One could say that in philosophical terms this is an attempt to return to something like an intellectual gold standard. I would call these attempts alchemical experiments in the field of philosophy a little more pointed”. […]