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\"Chris Chris Dercon, image by Frank Senftleben and courtesy of bz-berlin.de<\/p>\n

 
\nFor years, Berlin<\/a> has been considered a beacon of opportunity and freedom in the art world. It often ranks high in lists of world cities and, recently, three of its residents made it onto ArtReview<\/a>‘s list of the top 10 most powerful people in the arts. Even the former Tate Modern director Chris Dercon seemed to be enamoured with the city, which he once referred to as \u201ccosmopolitan\u201d. But since Dercon\u2019s appointment as the next director of the theatre institution\u00a0Volksb\u00fchne two years ago, the mood has been far from chirpy.
\nFirst, his announcements of reform were received with a formal complaint from the theatre\u2019s staff as well as a brief strike. And last week at a conference in the Belgian embassy<\/a> in Berlin he expressed his discontent with the city, labeling German theater as old-fashioned, its contemporary art as unimaginative and Berlin a non-world city. Ouch or as the Germans utter: aua<\/em>!
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\u201cI come from London, I come from the art market. I am responsible for Brexit, the climate change, I am neoliberal, I stand for the event culture.” – Chris Dercon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Chris_Dercon_Istanbul\" Chris Dercon in Istanbul<\/p>\n

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“I do not know if I can help Berlin\u201d – Chris Dercon
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It\u2019s unclear why Dercon has fallen foul of the city he\u2019s chosen to live in after Brussels, New York, Rotterdam, Munich, and London. But despite his claim, he remains humorous and self-critical. “I know the arguments against me,\u201d he said. \u201cI come from London, I come from the art market. I am responsible for Brexit, the climate change, I am neoliberal, I stand for the event culture.”
\n“The state of art is very weak at the moment, in repetitions and stereotypes, it sucks up other disciplines,\u201d he said. But not all is bad: at least for him there are two artists in the city he thinks are very good: Wolfgang Tillmans<\/a> und Hito Steyerl<\/a>. Never mind the shade, though, as the good director that he is, Dercon is aware that his job is also to galvanise and agitate the system.
\nDoes this mean that Berlin is over? Probably not. Chris Dercon has a vision, and he has an extended concept of culture that he now claim he doesn\u2019t think Berlin is ready for. However, these scathing remarks have to be taken with a pinch of salt. Dercon does have a point: Berlin has long been hindered by bureaucracy, inefficiency and a certain provinciality that will take years overcome.
\n“I do not know if I can help Berlin, Willkommenskultur<\/em> is something else,\u201d he remarked on the reaction against his proposals. Chris Dercon knows what he’s doing and Berlin can only gain from his criticism.
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