Aya Soika contributes to arte documentary on Emil Nolde

BCB Professor of Art History Aya Soika appears in Kunst und Kalkül – der ganze Nolde (Art and Calculation – the whole Nolde), a documentary on the German-Danish expressionist painter Emil Nolde, produced by the cultural public broadcaster arte.

The documentary examines how Nolde himself contributed to constructing the image of himself as a defamed artist. It touches not just on his political ideology but also on themes in his work and questions of artistic practice. Attempting to provide a comprehensive introduction, the film also draws on the findings of a research project conducted by Prof. Soika and Dr. Bernhard Fulda which examined the artist's involvement with National Socialism and deconstructed the one-sided Nolde "myth" of being exclusively a victim of Nazi politics due to his prominent position in the "Degenerate Art" exhibition in 1937.

The full documentary is available on the arte website until January 14, 2022 >>

Post Date: 11-04-2021