Nan Goldin returned to Berlin to rebuke the German government and cultural apparatchiks during the opening of her retrospective, titled This Will Not End Well. Berlin once served as a gritty refuge for international artists, offering cheap rent, abundant studio space, and generous public cultural funding. That environment attracted a global creative community and helped reposition the city as an artistic capital. Rapid gentrification and rising real-estate values followed, but the city retained experimental energy. Since October 2023, aggressive government responses to support for Palestine have triggered a nationwide cultural crackdown that critics say restricts speech and artistic freedom.
""This Too Will Not End Well.""
""This is a city that we used to consider a refuge,""
""Everything was extreme.""
""gagged by the government, the police, and the cultural crackdown.""
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