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Passion for Art & Architecture
Minimalist • Introvert • PhD in Economics • NFT Collector

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Ist das echt?

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@ebrahimelmii the same goes for you, my friend 🫂

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For a moment, the architecture stopped being the subject.

Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca

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@ebrahimelmii ohhh thank you for such a generous compliment, Ebrahim ! that's high praise coming from you 🤍✨ truly means a lot

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@ebrahimelmii thank you, Ebrahim ! it was such a lovely father-kids-moment. it took my heart, and I'm so glad I somehow managed to capture it 🤧🥹

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The Art of Attention

I grew up less than 20 minutes from Frank Gehry’s buildings in Düsseldorf.
For years, I drove past them without really seeing them.

Makes me wonder: is familiarity a poor observer?

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Architecture compressing grief into space

A corridor of steel carrying 22,000 names and bronze bees toward the Baltic Sea. Tallinn’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism feels designed as a passage from oppression into breath.

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KUMU Picks

Sunday on Lake Peipsi (1975) by Estonian Artist Urmas Ploomipuu, seen at Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn.

The main collection of @kumuartmuseum covers Estonian art from the 18th century onwards.

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Layers from the Baltics — or: When history remains visible.

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Soviet Modernism

Palace of Concerts and Sports, Vilnius (built in 1971, closed in 2004).
I liked the shape more than the feeling of standing there.

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KUMU Picks

Market (1983) by Estonian artist Rein Tamnik, seen at Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn.

The main collection of @kumuartmuseum covers Estonian art from the 18th century onwards.

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Užupis, the independent artistic republic

Užupis is self-declared republic (since 1997) in Vilnius, Lithuania, where artists, intellectuals, and free thinkers shape the streets.
With its own constitution and ever-evolving public art, it stands as a living manifesto of creative freedom.
The Constitution contains 41 articles detailing the rights of citizens, pets, and the River Vilnelė; it has been translated into over 50 languages and is displayed on a wall.

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@AndresgallardoP Love that! It’s such a special spot—so glad you enjoyed it too. Thanks for sharing, Andrés ✨

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MO Museum, Vilnius by Daniel Libeskind

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@ebrahimelmii Thank you, Ebrahim—just one frame, echoing many places and moments across the Baltics. That subtle gratitude for freedom is deeply felt. 🤍

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Freedom

Traveling through the Baltics reminded me:

freedom—even the freedom to create—isn’t a given.

You can sense the resilience here,
and a deep gratitude for the freedom of expression—also in art.

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@DownsandTowns Bravo, Houston 👏💪😍

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News from NFT Legends

Huge congrats to @DownsandTowns on the "Through My Lens" exhibition in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Proud to be one of his collectors.

Thank you for letting us see the world through your lens, Houston!

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Tomorrow it opens!

‘Through My Lens’ is now on display at the Burlington library in Knoxville, Tennessee.

This show brings together my travel photography, fine art, portraits, and new experimental work.

Come see the world through my lens.
May 1 – 31, 2026

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Street Art

in Kaunas, Lithuania's dynamic heart of culture and creativity,

The Wise Old Man
by Tadas Šimkus & Žygimantas Amelynas

(The work is a tribute to George Maciunas, the Lithuanian-American founder of the Fluxus art movement)

The Winter is Over
by Tadas Šimkus

Painter
by Linas Kaziulionis

Contemporary Ladies
by Linas Kaziulionis

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Die Welt steht Kopf. Georg Baselitz bleibt.

RIP 🖤

(Photo of Georg Baselitz by Anton Corbijn, 2001. Via Instagram. © Anton Corbijn)