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Why not, for once, look at a collection as a fabric of relationships among things that meet by chance? And as an opportunity which, as Jean Baudrillard put it, might establish an “everyday prose of objects, [...] a triumphant unconscious discourse”? Picking up on this idea, Flirting with Strangers, the autumn exhibition on the ground floor of the 21er Haus from 9 September 2015 to 31 January 2016, stages an exciting, playful, and at times unexpected encounter between and with works from the collection. On display are works by over one hundred artists—the oldest exhibit from the 14th century, …