Monopol Magazine May Issue: Berlin Gallery Weekend and Venice Biennale Preview

The May issue of Monopol magazine focuses on art in the age of AI, the Berlin Gallery Weekend, and the Venice Biennale. Media artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) criticizes the art world for ignoring digitalization and AI, stating that everyone outside the art world talks about technology. His work "Regular Animals" at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin features robot dogs with faces of tech oligarchs Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, as well as Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso; the dogs photograph their surroundings and occasionally produce AI-edited photos. The issue also profiles Lithuanian artist Lina Lapelyté, who has transformed the Hamburger Bahnhof's main hall into a giant playground with wooden blocks for singing and collaborative construction. A special supplement covers the Venice Biennale, opening May 9, with interviews with curator Kathleen Reinhardt and artist Sung Tieu, a feature on the late artist Henrike Naumann regarding the German pavilion, and choreographer Florentina Holzinger explaining her transformation of the Austrian pavilion into an underwater world with naked performers.