Blog entry by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Sunday, June 26, 2011.
Tucked away behind a Vespa workshop in a back alley in Mitte lies Leslie Weißgerber’s and Max Frey’s new project space, Praterstr. 48. Originally hailing from Vienna, the art historian Weißgerber and the artist Frey set up the space early this year, and show a varied programme of contemporary art.
Blog entry by Clare Ros – in Berlin; Friday, June 24, 2011.
Transalpino 2011 explores the complex landscape of production places between the two capitals of design, Milan and Berlin. On their journey from one to the other city, nine Berlin based designers were visiting different companies and manufactures, which represent a certain region, its culture and tradition. Within the one-year project the aim was to develop product ideas that mix up the potentials from different regions and, as a result, stand for the landscape of production in between Milan and Berlin. [view all images…]
Blog entry and photos by SP Williams– in Berlin; Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
Motivated by a sense of the carnivalesque, Ryan Mosley’s canvases offer up a surreal world of invented characters and rituals that are simultaneously archaic and futuristic. Mosley develops his theatrical subjects through a spontaneous approach to painting. “They appear on the canvas,” Mosley explains, “worked, reworked, painted over, feeding on mistakes.
Blog entry by Clare Ros – in Berlin; Monday, June 20, 2011.
A Single Composite is a kinetic installation and multi-projection / viewing apparatus consisting of one 100 cm wide film strip stretched, twisted, and looped through multiple spaces by reconstituted digital printer chassis. This cinematic enterprise, a sprawling film through which declassified and other found reconnaissance footage is projected on walls, ceilings, and floors, forms a series of individual moments of surveillance and implied violence. [view all images…]
I think that the German Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennial is incorporating the gap between on one hand representativity and identity (signifiers that are meant to express…[read on]
The neighborhood of Tophane has carved itself out as a petite art’s distract within the western side’s new city (complete with it’s own Art Walk Guide boasting a modest 11 destinations…[read on]
Blog Entry and map by Elizabeth Feder // June 8, 2011
Most of us experience the library in a limited way and for a limited time: we’ve all known the anxiety and rush to make the final check-out time so we can spend more time with that essential text. But thanks to an orchestra of city officials and institutions, we can peruse, pursue, and…[read on…]
Blog entry and photos by SP Williams– in Berlin; Monday, June 6, 2011.
The DMY International Design Festival at Tempelhof Airport was this past weekend. It offered a wide range of works from independent designers, smaller design boutiques and recent university graduates.
I sure saw a lot of fancy lamp shades and chairs. Sustainable and recycled materials was a consistent theme throughout the show, including bike-part shelving, seat-belt beds and bio-degradable urns.
Blog Entry by Danielle Griffin – in Berlin; Sunday, June 5, 2011.
Next Thursday (June 9) is the Große Berliner Büchernacht at the Kulturbrauerei! The program begins at 7 pm, and readings, lectures, musical concerts and films will be presented throughout the evening until about midnight, throughout the grounds.
Curator and writer Corinna Kirsch sat down with one of Berlin’s busiest and most intriguing dance and performance artists, Helga Wretman — also Germany’s tiniest stunt-…[read on]
Blog Entry by Chloé Richard – in Berlin; Sunday, May 29, 2011.
Tuesday was Soylent Green Day at .HBC, where the movie of the same name was screened. Each audience member was given a ticket at the door, good for a plate of either “rich” food (bread, French cheese and cranberries) or “poor” food (crackers with cheddar cheese in a can, candy powder and a nice chemical dessert) to get the mind ready for the movie…
