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Review // Discussing the Matter of Critique with Renzo Martens at KW Institute for Contemporary Art

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Article by Nora Kovacs – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 26, 2015.

Renzo Martens has been urging the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to “Enjoy Poverty” for quite a while now. The project title itself is inflammatory – how can anyone enjoy poverty? – but the ideas and intentions behind it have been clearly thought through, and it is precisely this paradox that has given the Dutch artist his fame…[read on…]