Founded in 1999 in London by Will Ramsay, the aim was to make contemporary art accessible to everyone, and to show you don’t need to be an art expert or a millionaire to enjoy and buy art….
Blog entry by Monica Salazar – in Berlin; Monday, Nov. 7, 2011.
On November 18th, the international reach of Berlin’s emerging art scene will be presented prominently in Saatchi Gallery’s first survey of German art, Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany. Artists from Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Bremen and Cologne will be exhibited. Fourteen of the twenty-four artists hail from Berlin.
Blog entry by Virginia Wagner – in Berlin; Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011.
“Something very important and very weird is happening to the book right now: It’s shedding its papery corpus and transmigrating into a bodiless digital form, right before our eyes. We’re witnessing the bibliographical equivalent of the rapture.”
Lev Grossman, New York Times
Blog entry by Devon Atkins – in Berlin; Friday, October 28, 2011.
Not long after Hiyme’s arrival in Feburary this year, he broke his foot and was left wheelchair bound and lonely, struggling in a city made of staircases. Luckily for this painter, his character is not dissimilar to his paintings, colourful and chaotic, fun and magnetic – somehow eight months later, with an ever slowly-healing injury, he has survived the worst of it and is showing his work for the first time in Europe. …
Blog entry by Anna Freedman – in Berlin; Thursday, October 27, 2011.
Fredrich Seidenstücker had a particular quirkiness when it came to taking photographs. Having taken interest in what others may consider distinctly mundane, he made a niche for himself in street and animal photography. He was most successful commercially in the years prior to WWII, at a time when his optimism and sense of humor could be reflected by society as a whole…
Blog entry by Monica Salazar – in Berlin; Wednesday, October 26, 2011.
Using analog style photography, accented with handwritten notes and sketched drawings of journalists and designers during the shows. The Berlin Fashionweek Phototdiary offers a peak into the behind the scenes images of fashionweek. …
Come celebrate the release of EADERS DIGEST ISSUE No. 2: ” All m/eat no/ filler”
/////in conjunction with HERE!HERE!THERE! SAINT GEORGES
Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011; 9pm – 12am
Blog entry by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Friday, October 14, 2011.
A moiré pattern is an interference pattern created when two grids are overlaid at an angle. Christian Schwarzwald utilises this phenomenon to create intricate patterns in charcoal and acrylic on paper…
Blog entry by Monica Salazar – in Berlin; Thursday, October 13, 2011.
Starting Friday, STROKE.ARTFAIR returns to Postbahnhof Berlin for it’s second year in the city. The fair presents a focus on designs of the everyday streetscape, with its graffiti, tags, tattoos, advertising and graphic design….
Blog entry by Samantha Manton – in Berlin; Tuesday, October 11, 2011.
It is the juxtaposition of small-scale, black and white, digitally produced prints with their much larger, full colour, analogously prepared counterparts on the walls of Klemm’s that arouses great curiosity at even the slightest glance through the gallery’s glass frontage. It is the relationship between the two that presents Viktoria Binschtok as a thoughtful and analytical artist whose pictorial explorations raise questions about visibility, function and artistic intent.