Indigenous cultures in Australia have regarded not only flora and fauna, but also rivers and mountains as beings to be protected. Inspired by this, the Biennale of Sydney will take an artistic and philosophical look at our planet's ecosystems starting March 12, 2022.

In retrospect, Max Pechstein and Emil Nolde are celebrated today as important Expressionists. But their ideas were also based on racial ideologies and distorted images with a »longing for the South«. The ARTE film The White Gaze - Expressionism and Colonialism exposes their romanticized views of the »paradise« that at that time had been destroyed by German colonialism already. Furthermore, the Film shows previously unpublished photographs of their travels to »German New Guinea«.

The streaming service Netflix is currently making the documentary The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography available. The film by Errol Morris examines the life and work of the US portrait artist Elsa Dorfman.

He is one of the most famous Spanish painters, known both for his grotesque etchings and the idyllic oil paintings he produced as court painter to the Spanish royal family: ARTE shows in Francisco de Goya. The Sleep of Reason the life of the last great court painter, who became the model for many artists of the 19th century.

The documentary The Price of Everything deals with the question of who decides on the financial value of art. In an attempt to find an answer, the film follows, among other things, the value chains of works by well-known artists and interviews collectors as well as leading figures from various auction houses on the subject.

Eleven years ago, the Arab Spring began, a protest movement that started in Tunisia and later spread to several countries on the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. The German-French broadcaster ARTE draws in the reportage 4 Arab Women Comic Book Artists, the German-French broadcaster ARTE takes stock of the past decade and visits the four women Nadia Khiari, Lena Merhej, Zainab Fasiki and Deena Mohamed in their studios. The film tells of their individual concerns, which they convey in their comic drawings.

The work of visual artist Sibylle Zeh is multifaceted: her portfolio encompasses a wide spectrum of artistic expression, from paintings and drawings to book objects, photo series and collages to textile objects and installations. The Berlin resident usually concentrates in her work on the representation of the »absent« or the »repressed«.