NEWS ++ Susan Sontag - Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

The Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn has been presenting since 14 March 2025 the author Susan Sontag, who has dedicated her life to the study of visual media.

Throughout her life, the author, critic and public intellectual Susan Sontag has worked intensively with visual media. Coming from a background in philosophy and literary studies, she clearly recognised the decisive influence of photography in our media-driven society. As an attractive woman herself, she was a sought-after subject for photographers and utilised the power of the medium for her own agenda. She described her early encounter with images of the Holocaust as a ‘negative epiphany’ in her life and the starting point for her further involvement with photography. She wrote in her first novel The Benefactor in 1963 that film was life, photography a memento mori. As a passionate cineaste, Sontag saw film as the ‘most vivid, most exciting and most important of all art genres.’ As a school of sensibility, cinema not only shows you ‘how to pose, smoke, kiss or fight’, but also offers the …

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Masterpieces in Berlin

You can visit numerous impressive artistic masterpieces from all eras in Berlin’s museums. But where exactly will you find works by Albrecht Dürer, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Sandro Botticelli, Peter Paul Rubens or the world-famous Nefertiti? We will introduce you to the most impressive artistic masterpieces in Berlin. And can lead you to the respective museum with only one click. So that you can personally experience and enjoy your favourite masterpiece live.