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Since ancient times the garden has been a symbol of cultivation and civilisation. To prepare and manage a plot of land for largely aesthetic purposes, however, often means that something else must be sacrificed\u2014namely native species of plants and animals, wildflowers and weeds\u2014to make way for an organised arrangement of flora and fauna. In this way, the garden is not just a site of abundant beauty but has long been a symbol of colonialism too, of power struggles, the land being taken over, ordered and controlled at the expense of indigenous cultures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think the garden is a good way of talking about the state of the world,\u201d curator Stephanie Rosenthal tells SLEEK about the latest exhibition to open at Berlin\u2019s Gropius Bau, <\/span>Garden of Earthly Delights<\/span><\/i><\/a>. \u201cTo think about plants and the way that we have dealt with nature is a direct way to talk about what has happened in the world of humanity.\u201d In this way, <\/span>Garden of Earthly Delights<\/span><\/i>\u2014which incidentally takes Hieronymous Bosch\u2019s famous triptych of the same name that pits pleasure and peril against each other as its point of departure (a version of one of the panels is exhibited in the show)\u2014 grapples with the manifold meanings and contradictions of the garden. Through a quintet of thematic perspectives\u2014utopia\/dystopia, anthropocene (human involvement), urban gardening, gardening as a system of thought and colonialism\/migration\u2014the garden unravels as a complex microcosm of the world\u2019s struggles at large, undoubtedly exacerbated in a tense era of climate change. <\/span><\/p>\n

Below, we explore some of those meanings through the works exhibited:<\/span><\/p>\n

The sensual garden \u2014 Homo Sapiens Sapiens<\/i> (2005), \u00a0Pipilotti Rist\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78599,"id":78599,"title":"gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens lowres","filename":"gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres.jpg","filesize":146159,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/garden-gropius-bau\/gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":78591,"date":"2019-07-31 13:35:18","modified":"2019-07-31 13:57:35","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1128,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1128,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1128,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1128,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1128,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1128,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":16,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_pipilotti_rist_homosapienssapiens-lowres.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1128}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":"Pipilotti Rist, \u201cHomo sapiens sapiens\u201d, 2005. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser and Wirth."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

Where many of the works on display situate the garden as a complex arena of cultural differences and meanings, Pipilotti Rist\u2019s 2005 film\u2014planted in the ceiling like a kaleidoscopic window onto a primordial other world \u2014 portrays the garden as a swirling, sensual paradise. Through a globular fish-eye lens, naked nymph-like women are glimpsed, caressing fruits and flowers, their bodies swerving and shimmying in ecstasy, cascades of streaming hair washing over the camera. Here, the garden is pure pleasure, a gleaming potion of psychedelic colour, impossible joy in an alternate Eden\u2014a safe haven prior to the industrialised harvesting of the land.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tampered garden \u2014 Mesocosmic Indoor Overture<\/i> (2019), Heather Phillipson<\/strong><\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78594,"id":78594,"title":"gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture","filename":"gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture-e1564571199968.jpg","filesize":412522,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture-e1564571199968.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/garden-gropius-bau\/gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":78591,"date":"2019-07-31 11:05:55","modified":"2019-07-31 11:08:27","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":844,"height":1500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture-e1564571199968.jpg","thumbnail-width":54,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture-e1564571199968.jpg","medium-width":844,"medium-height":1500,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture-e1564571199968.jpg","medium_large-width":844,"medium_large-height":1500,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture-e1564571199968.jpg","large-width":844,"large-height":1500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture-e1564571199968.jpg","1536x1536-width":844,"1536x1536-height":1500,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture-e1564571199968.jpg","2048x2048-width":844,"2048x2048-height":1500,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture-e1564571199968.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":7,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_heather_philipson_mesocosmic_indoor_overture-e1564571199968.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":844,"wpvr_mobile-height":1500}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"4","caption":"Heather Phillipson, \u201cMesocosmic Indoor Overture\u201d, 2019. Courtesy of Gropius Bau."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

It might take a moment to realise that you can walk across the pungent mulsh carpeting the floor in English artist Heather Phillipson\u2019s installation, <\/span>Mesocosmic Indoor Overture<\/span><\/i>. Without even casting an eye over the zany screens positioned in a triangular formation, the waft emanating from the soft underfoot is enough to transport you to a dank and earthy plot somewhere. Meanwhile, the rectangular screens present digitised footage of a canary-yellow, tulip-like flower, collaged against a galactic backdrop\u2014it\u2019s all pretty weird. The plant in question is the invasive skunk-cabbage\u2014a fetid perennial wildflower native to North America and alien to Germany (and Europe) that spreads incessantly when planted (in Britain, it is an offence to allow the plant to escape from a regulated setting and grow in the wild). In this installation, Phillipson imagines a world in a near future, where plants which have been purposely grown by humans, supersede and take over. As Rosenthal says, \u201cWe don\u2019t own nature, nature owns us…in the end nature will stay.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The treacherous garden \u2014 Lawn 1<\/i> (2019), Lungiswa Gqunta<\/strong><\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78601,"id":78601,"title":"Gropius_Bau_Garten_\u00a9_Mathias_Voelzke","filename":"gb19_p_lungiswa_gqunta_lawn_1.jpg","filesize":394244,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_lungiswa_gqunta_lawn_1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/garden-gropius-bau\/gropius_bau_garten__mathias_voelzke-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"gropius_bau_garten__mathias_voelzke-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":78591,"date":"2019-07-31 13:36:57","modified":"2019-07-31 13:42:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1001,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_lungiswa_gqunta_lawn_1.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_lungiswa_gqunta_lawn_1.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1001,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_lungiswa_gqunta_lawn_1.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1001,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_lungiswa_gqunta_lawn_1.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1001,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_lungiswa_gqunta_lawn_1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1001,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_lungiswa_gqunta_lawn_1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1001,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_lungiswa_gqunta_lawn_1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_lungiswa_gqunta_lawn_1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1001}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":"Lungiswa Gqunta, \"Lawn I,\" 2019. Courtesy of Gropius Bau. "}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

As the light catches on the severed zig-zag edges of the green bottles in Lungiswa Gqunta\u2019s <\/span>Lawn 1<\/span><\/i>, it\u2019s hard not to take a breath. A hundred or so broken bottles are arranged in a square formation at foot-level, violently gleaming; children are instructed to be held by the hand. Gqunta\u2019s installation is a poetic representation of the gardens in South Africa that brutally keep trespassers out\u2014 largely directed at members of black communities \u2014by attaching broken glass bottles to their fences. Gqunta renders the garden as a vicious marking of territory, a danger zone that divides rich and poor, black and white. The garden is far from a safe haven here, but a ferocious battle ground.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The spiritual garden \u2014 2012-2555, <\/i>Korakrit Arunanondchai<\/strong><\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78600,"id":78600,"title":"Gropius_Bau_Garten_\u00a9_Mathias_Voelzke","filename":"gb19_p_korakrit_arunanondchai_2002_2555_2-e1564580263777.jpg","filesize":395626,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_korakrit_arunanondchai_2002_2555_2-e1564580263777.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/garden-gropius-bau\/gropius_bau_garten__mathias_voelzke\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"gropius_bau_garten__mathias_voelzke","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":78591,"date":"2019-07-31 13:36:51","modified":"2019-07-31 13:44:06","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_korakrit_arunanondchai_2002_2555_2-e1564580263777.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_korakrit_arunanondchai_2002_2555_2-e1564580263777.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_korakrit_arunanondchai_2002_2555_2-e1564580263777.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_korakrit_arunanondchai_2002_2555_2-e1564580263777.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_korakrit_arunanondchai_2002_2555_2-e1564580263777.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_korakrit_arunanondchai_2002_2555_2-e1564580263777.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_korakrit_arunanondchai_2002_2555_2-e1564580263777.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_korakrit_arunanondchai_2002_2555_2-e1564580263777.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":"Korakrit Arunanondchai, \"2002-2555,\" 2019. Courtesy of Gropius Bau."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

New York-based and Bangkok-raised Korakrit Arunanondchai become a household name after being selected for this year\u2019s Whitney Biennial, where he was exhibiting this installation simultaneously (on 20 July <\/span>he withdrew his work in protest<\/span><\/a> against the involvement of Whitney\u2019s vice chair Warren B. Kanders in the production of tear gas). At Gropius Bau, however, the clear-sighted heartfeltness and meditative nature of this piece can be fully appreciated. At the top of a long room, two screens are placed on easel-like stands, behind them lies an altar-like formation: an empty rendition of Raphael\u2019s foyer from the <\/span>School of Athens<\/span><\/i> is adorned with garlands of garish fake flowers. The screens show shots of the artist\u2019s grandparents, their garden and scenes of a cataclysmic flood that devastated Arunanondchai\u2019s homeland in 2011. Against a stirring, wistful soundtrack, there is the sense of being washed or carried away, the images are meditative, the land withers and renews, cleansing follows destruction, and life ultimately goes on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The colonised garden \u2014 Antoine\u2019s Organ <\/i>(2016), Rashid Johnson\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78602,"id":78602,"title":"gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2","filename":"gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2.jpg","filesize":375288,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/garden-gropius-bau\/gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":78591,"date":"2019-07-31 13:40:02","modified":"2019-07-31 13:40:02","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1074,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":92,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1074,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1074,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1074,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1074,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1074,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gb19_p_garten_rashid_johnson_antoinesorgan_2.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1074}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":"Rashid Johnson, \u201cAntoine's Organ\u201d, 2016. Courtesy of Gropius Bau."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

In the atrium of the Gropius Bau, you will be greeted with Rashid Johnson\u2019s magnificent <\/span>Antoine\u2019s Organ<\/span><\/i>\u2014which resembles a sort a giant shelving system overflowing with verdurous houseplants that any green-thumbed millennial could only dream of. It is also the perfect work to sum up the conflicting ideas and themes that this exhibition sets up. On the one hand, it is gorgeously fresh and tactile, teeming with potted plants, shea butter sculptures, books, TV screens, even a piano, but on the other, the imposing grid-like structure is restrictive. The plants and flowers are penned in and organised, illuminated in unnatural neon lights, purely for aesthetic contemplation. In this way, the work is imbued with colonial politics, of taking over and reclaiming as one\u2019s own. But it\u2019s not purely negative: music brings Johnson\u2019s flourishing ecosystem to life, suggesting harmony and poignancy in this situation at the same time. As Rosenthal notes, \u201cPeople understand that to have a plant gives you a form of life. We live with them, they live with us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

G<\/span>arden of Earthly Delights<\/span><\/a> runs through to 1 December 2019 at Gropius Bau.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\nUntangling the garden as a site of pleasure and power in 5 art works Untangling the garden as a site of pleasure and power in 5 art works<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/garden-gropius-bau\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Untangling the garden as a site of pleasure and power in 5 art works Untangling the garden as a site of pleasure and power in 5 art works\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/garden-gropius-bau\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-31T13:24:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-07-31T14:02:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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