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Underappreciated for many years and treated as a mere provocateur, Christoph Schlingensief was, above all, a radical educator. A review of films by this German director and artist, who died in 2010, highlights how even his older films remain outstandingly current.

Artist as production agent

Morning of 31 August 1997: Hybrid WorkSpace at Documenta X in Kassel. The second part of Christoph Schlingensief's Mein Filz, mein Fett, mein Hase - 48 Stunden überleben für Deutschland is set to begin, when the director learns via internet of the death of Princess Diana and her partner in an automobile accident.

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Debate on provocation and scandal in contemporary art held on the 19th November 2011 at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle, featuring Martin Schibli (curator at Kalmar konstmuseum), Oscar Germouche, Kaia Pawełek, Kamila Wielebska, Zuzanna Janin. Moderator: Agnieszka Rayzacher. The audience profited abundantly from the occasion to exchange opinions. The discussion took place one day after the opening of the exhibition of young artists from Sweden ("Cool Water"; curator: Martin Schibli, artists: Oscar Guermouche, Elin Magnusson, NUG, Anna Odell; lokal_30, 18.11.2011 - 13.01.2012)

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What I like most about your book is that it works just like GPS - you show what the options to achieve certain goal are, which in this case is creating art collection, without giving ready solutions or even suggestions. Instead readers receive a huge list of issues to consider before choosing the way.

That was a very conscious decision. I of course mentioned some artists and galleries, but I wanted the guide to be something that you can use how and where ever you want. You could be in a small town or massive metropolis and you would have the tools to discover art that you love in your own way, to make your collection exactly as you want it to be.

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Roee Rosen talks with Kamila Wielebska about Surrealism and Justine Frank (1900-1943), a Belgian Jewish artist present in his oeuvre.

According to Professor Anne Kastorp of Brown College in East Orange, New Jersey, Frank is descendent of the mystic Jacob Frank who lived in 18^th century and was a bizzare and controversial person. This is interesting for me because in my opinion Jacob Frank was a typical Roccoco personality. And I think about Roccoco as a kind of origin of Surrealism. So it's quite amazing because you are doing actually very similar thing, you found a Roccoco ancestor for a surrealist. What do you think about it?