Blog Entry by Danielle Griffin – in Berlin; Saturday, May 28, 2011.
Sand Journal will be hosting its Art and Literary fair at Etsy Labs on June 4! It will serve as a showcase for various mediums, and artists from different disciplines will be selling their work. The event is free and open to everyone who wants to check it out, and if you want to participate more directly and show off your work there, Sand is still looking for submissions!
Blog Entry by Clare Ros– in Berlin; Friday, May 27, 2011.
An Art Newspaper is pleased to announce the release of its special limited edition DECADE issue giving an extensive look back at The Noughties. One thousand copies only, this special 56-page signed double issue brings to our readers an anthological survey of An Art Newspaper’s greatest hits and liveliest scripts that made the last 10 years what it was. [read on…]
Blog Entry by Henna Räsänen – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 24, 2011.
Vector Lounge’s ‘DRAW YOUR OWN LINE’ series, is a fierce one-to-one designer battle which challenges the graphic designers of four European capitals. The series is held simultaneously in two different cities and is aired live.
After two years of single battles, the contest has evolved to a broader edition with participants from Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen and London.
Blog entry and photos by SP Williams– in Berlin; Saturday, May 21, 2011.
In ‘Mythos Incorporated’, Eckart Hahn puts classical symbolism and mythic force to the test. He paints over the subjects with current day objects such as plastic bags, or masks them in ‘marketing colors’, such as the sickly McDonald’s yellow that I connect with cheeseburgers, childhood and constipation.
Blog Entry by Clare Ros– in Berlin; Friday, May 20, 2011.
This class, offered at The Public School Berlin, will explore the exchange in theoretical and cultural production between Los Angeles and Berlin during the last 100 years. Beginning with the exodus of Jewish intellectuals during WWII, and looking at the effect of the such exhile on the formation of the American avant garde, the first part of the class will seek to chart the influence of many German emigrants in Los Angeles.
Through his series entitled, Pseudo Sanctuary, Interiority Complex, and Thrill Life, Simpson examines the home as the false sanctuary – exposing alternative…[read on]
Blog entry and photos by Jeni Fulton – in Berlin; Tuesday, May 17, 2011.
It is now 40 days since Weiwei was arrested, and his show at the gallery neugerriemschneider serves as a reminder that the culture wars are not over, they have merely relocated. Weiwei’s installation of reassembled trees (Tree, 2011) and white porcelain rocks (Rock, 2011) is intended to invoke associations with traditional Chinese gardens, sites of contemplation and reflection. [view all images…]
Blog entry and photos by SP Williams– in Berlin; Monday, May 16, 2011.
With a jogger, a bottle, and a puddle on the street as it’s actors, the stories unfold either with an absurd suspense, an illusion of finality, or a feeling of unending entrapment.
Blog Entry by Henna Räsänen – in Berlin; Sunday, May 15, 2011.
After finding our way to an unmarked inner yard of Brunnenstrasse 196, we made our way through a relaxed skater crowd to find an impressive collection of sticker art. Framed and exhibited were pieces from notorious street artists such as Obey and Prost, side by side with commercial stickers and anonymous artwork.
Blog Entry by SP Williams– in Berlin; Saturday, May 14, 2011.
For those who still believe that WASTED GERMAN YOUTH is more of an art project than a tshirt label have the chance to prove themself even maybe right by checking out the 2006 WE CAME TO FUCK piece from paul snowden at the group show with Philippe Decrauzat and Olivier Mosset at Nymphius Projekte.
Blog Entry by Corinna Kirsch– in Berlin; Wednesday, May 11, 2011.
Kraus takes banal and inanimate objects, then recombines and alters them in a way to imbue them with emotion and a resemblance to living things. For her “ice lamp,” she sealed a light bulb with silicone and then stuck it inside a cube of icy water and ink, causing the lamp to slowly wither and melt away. Regarding this work, Kraus has said: “When you see the lamp, there is something extremely sad about it.”
Blog Entry by SP Williams– in Berlin; Tuesday, May 9, 2011.
This huge space, self-dubbed ‘the experimental culture generator’, holds much potential for future creative collaborators right in the heart of Wedding. Creatives of all kinds are encouraged to contact Mica Moca with ideas for future events.
