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Museum Folkwang’s 2024 programme will focus on people and their imagination in a powerful and diverse way, across epochs and disciplines.

A chat with the art gallery owner who has been dealing with avant-garde for at least three decades, who wanted to be a photographer, and whose debut is linked to the 1980s and an abandoned factory.

A point, a punch line, and a moment of dark ambivalence collide in Niclas Riepshoff’s A Stitch in Time (all works 2021). The cartoonish sculpture depicts an elderly lady with a boy over her knee. An enormous silver needle in hand, she appears to mend his pants right on his arched bottom. The object is a drastically enlarged, exaggerated replica of a kitschy decorative figurine, one in a series of similar genre scenes. Inside the cutesiness looms an abyss of repression. Is this grandmotherly care or authoritarian violation? By scaling up the scene, Riepshoff’s adaptation amplifies its menac...

Traps are defining elements in the art of Andreas Slominski, both in a figurative and a literal sense. His new works include a series of motifs drawn