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True Cities at Architekturforum Aedes is a photo(geo)graphical installation by Dutch artist Charlie Koolhaas. True Cities is a collection of photographs that show four metropolises which each in a specific way form the current political and cultural landscape. The installation is a patchwork, bringing together the urban structures of Guangzhou, Dubai, Lagos and London. The exhibition comprises hundreds of different pictures that show the interconnectedness of the world.
Charlie Koolhaas is a Dutch artist raised in London who currently works from her studio in Guangzhou, China. Trained as a sociologist, throughout her career she has worked as a magazine editor, exhibition curator, writer as well as photographer, and in her photos we see this multidisciplinary approach applied to the urban experience. In True Cities she brings together hundreds of disparate images of different places to bounce off each other, resonate and begin a dialogue.
In this video Charlie Koolhaas talks about the concept of the exhibition. The show runs until the 26th March 2009.
Architekturforum Aedes, Berlin / Germany. January 30, 2009. Video by Martin Griessmüller.

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Currently, the Vitra Design Museum is showing an exhibition that aims at telling the story of Dubai from a cultural angle. Together with the exhibition “Living under the Crescent Moon” the exhibition “Dubai Next: Face of 21st Century Culture”, being located in Zaha Hadid’s Firestation at the Vitra Campus, complements the museum’s focus on Arab domestic and contemporary culture in 2008. The exhibition, a cooperation between the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority and the Vitra Design Museum, has been curated by Rem Koolhaas and Jack Persekian. The exhibition was officially opened by Sheikh Majid bin Mohammad bin Rashid Al ­Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai who was guided through the exhibition by Michael Schindhelm, director for culture, arts and heritage, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority. Dubai Next runs until September 14, 2008. Vitra Design Museum, June 4, 2008.
Links: The National | Artforum | Artreview.

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