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Frank Auerbach’s Berlin homecoming, human remains and museums, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s ‘Republic’—podcast

Exploring Frank Auerbach's first-ever Berlin exhibition, plus Dan Hicks discusses the origins of contemporary debates around colonialism, art, and heritage, and an expert on Ian Hamilton Finlay reflects on the artist's work ahead of a run of centenary exhibitions

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
2 May 2025
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Frank Auerbach, Self-Portrait 

© The Estate of Frank Auerbach. Courtesy Frankie Rossi Art Projects

Frank Auerbach, Self-Portrait

© The Estate of Frank Auerbach. Courtesy Frankie Rossi Art Projects

The Week in Art

From breaking news and insider insights to exhibitions and events around the world, the team at The Art Newspaper picks apart the art world’s big stories with the help of special guests. An award-winning podcast hosted by Ben Luke.

During his lifetime, the late artist Frank Auerbach never had an exhibition in Berlin, the city of his birth, which he left for the UK in 1939 to escape the Nazis. This weekend, the first show of his work in the German capital opens at the Galerie Michael Werner. Our digital editor, Alexander Morrison, went to Berlin to talk to the artist’s son, the filmmaker Jake Auerbach, about the exhibition.

Frank Auerbach, Hampstead Road, High Summer, 2010. Private Collection

© The Estate of Frank Auerbach. Courtesy Frankie Rossi Art Projects

A new book by Dan Hicks, a curator at the Pitts River Museum in Oxford, UK, titled Every Monument Must Fall explores the origins of the fierce contemporary debates around colonialism, art, and heritage. It investigates in particular the acquisition of human remains and their ongoing place in museums and other historical institutions. Ben Luke spoke to him about the publication.

Dan Hicks, Every Monument Must Fall

Courtesy of Hutchinson Heinemann

And this week’s Work of the Week is Republic (1995) by Ian Hamilton Finlay, whose centenary is being celebrated this year with a new publication and a series of exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, Palma de Mallorca, Brescia, New York, Hamburg, Basel and Vienna. Luke spoke to Stephen Ban, a long-term specialist in Finley’s work, about this sculptural installation.

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Republic, 1995

© The Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Courtesy the Artist’s Estate and Victoria Miro

  • Frank Auerbach, Galerie Michael Werner, Berlin, 3 May-28 June
  • Dan Hicks, Every Monument Must Fall, is published by Hutchinson Heinemann. It is out now in the UK and priced £25. It will be published in the US in August and priced $47.99
  • Fragments, an exhibition of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s work, is showing at Victoria Miro, London, until 24 May. Further exhibitions are at the Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh, Kvenig Gallery in Palma de Mallorca, Galleria Massimo Minini in Brescia, David Nolan Gallery in New York, the Svea Semmler Gallery in Hamburg, the Stamper Gallery in Basel and the Galleria Hubert Winter in Vienna
  • The book Fragments is published by ACC Art Books and edited by Pia Maria Simig. It is published on 8 May and priced £50
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