I have been thinking about identity a lot recently. Susan Sontag’s diaries reveal how she constantly recreated herself. Like setting out to be less charming and more serious. Don’t smile so much, sit up straight…and above all Don’t Say It, all those sentences that come ready-to-say on the ticker-tape at the back of my tongue.… Read More Paris Magnétique at The Jewish Museum, Berlin
October in Berlin: Two experiences that centred around the importance of storytelling.… Read More Etgar Keret at the Jewish Museum Berlin and The Freedom Theatre at Theaterhaus Mitte
The Daimler Art Collection is very hard to find. We walked past it twice before spotting the little door that led to it. … Read More Guest post by Sophie Poulter-Patel: Daimler Art Collection
The Jewish Museum Berlin is a disorientating place. It is made up of various buildings from different periods, most recently The Libeskind building.… Read More Welcome to Jerusalem at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) was a Berlin-based artist, most famous for chronicling life in the city during the 1920s.… Read More Jeanne Mammen at the Berlinische Gallerie
With OSMO, where Beethoven’s last string quartet meets an installation meets an audience, Sebastian Blasius has directed a musical performance that hardly anyone can recognise as a musical performance.… Read More OSMO: A musical performance by Sebastian Blasius and the Sonar Quartett at Ufer Studios Berlin
Tess Motherway is an Irish filmmaker, visual artist & film curator, based in Berlin. She will be demonstrating her first performance piece ‘Things Men Have Said To Me This Year’ on Saturday, 16th September at 6pm at Alexanderplatz.… Read More Creative In Berlin: Tess Motherway
Kassel is most notable for the contemporary art exhibition documenta, which takes over its galleries, museums and public spaces for a period of 100 days every five years. … Read More Weekend Trips from Berlin: documenta14 in Kassel
Berlin Ninja asks, “What would Berlin look like with a superhero or villain in it?” Follow @berlinninja on Instagram.
The Friday Image: Where Did You Hide the Sun? by Sandy Di Yu… Read More The Friday Image: Where Did You Hide the Sun? by Sandy Di Yu
Sandy Di Yu is a Berlin-based artist. For more, check out her Instagram.
When I think about where I came from and all I can remember is waiting for the bus a lot…… Read More The Friday Image: Waiting for the Bus, by Sandy Di Yu
Berlin’s second STATE Festival, which brings together leading scientists, innovators, social-scientists, artists and members of the public to explore one topic took place recently at Kühlhaus in Gleisdreieck.… Read More STATE Festival Berlin: The Sentimental Machine
Berlin Glas e.V. offers glass-making courses which will ensure you never look at glass the same way again…… Read More Glass Making in Berlin Schönholz
It is rumoured that Boris Lurie’s No!art movement got its name when a woman entered an exhibition on 10th street in New York, looked his Railroad to America collage (below), and ran out screaming “No! No! No!”… Read More No Compromises! The Art of Boris Lurie at the Jewish Museum Berlin
There’s no place like time is an art exhibition with a twist.… Read More Exhibition: There’s no place like time
In ancient Rome, the term ‘Genius’ Loci existed, the ‘soul of the place.’ The soul of the city spoke to its inhabitants in the shape of a snake.… Read More Short Film: Rhino Full Throttle, A Berlin Love Story
Multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke and British film director Peter Greenaway revive the story of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac in an immersive installation at the Jewish Museum in Berlin.… Read More Exhibition: Obedience at the Jewish Museum Berlin
The Lost Museum Exhibition is about the hundreds of art works from the Berlin collections that went missing, were stolen or destroyed, due to the second world war.… Read More The Bode Museum marks the 70th Anniversary of End of World War Two
Berlin artist Jenny Brockmann talks about her work and relationship to the city.… Read More Creative in Berlin: Jenny Brockmann
Visual artist Laura Fong Prosper has been living in Berlin since 2007. Her solo video exhibition Gēn opens tonight at the Vesselroom Project.… Read More Creative in Berlin: Laura Fong Prosper
Last night was the opening of an Erich Kissing exhibition at Galerie Schwind on Auguststrasse in Berlin Mitte. The artist, as well as gallery owner Herr Schwind, attended.… Read More Erich Kissing at Galerie Schwind
Studio Visit Berlin is a door to the city’s vibrant art scene…… Read More Studio Visit Berlin
On Sunday, The Bavarian and I previewed some works that are to be sold over the next week at one of Berlin’s finest auction houses – Villa Grisebach in Charlottenburg – because the Bavarian has registered to bid in their Autumn Auction.… Read More Villa Grisebach
Friday 26th April to Sunday 28th April was Gallery Weekend – when galleries all over Berlin had exhibition openings. There were 51 official participants, but a lot of other galleries opened their doors to visitors during this time too, which was useful, because most Berlin galleries have random opening times. … Read More Gallery Weekend, Berlin
The first large-scale retrospective of R.B Kitaj’s work in fourteen years is currently on at the Jewish Museum Berlin.… Read More R.B. Kitaj: Obsessions Exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Yesterday saw the opening of Condition Humaine, an exhibition organised by the Ingeborg-Leuthold-Stiftung, a foundation promoting the art of women – especially realistic fine art in Berlin, at the Laden gallery in Tempelhof.… Read More Exhibition Opening: Condition Humaine at the Laden Gallery
Gerhard Richter: Panorama, a comprehensive retrospective of Germany’s greatest living artist at the Neue Nationalgalerie near Potsdamer Platz, is awe inspiring. Around 130 paintings and five sculptures, made between 1962 and 2011, are exhibited in the light, open space of the upper floor of the gallery. The work is displayed chronologically, although there is no… Read More Gerhard Richter: Panorama at the Neue Nationalgalerie
Following on from my last post about Berlin Street Art I recently discovered what must be the best Berlin Urban Art Blog, run by JUST, who’s been recording the street art movement for over ten years. You may have seen the word JUST graffitied across buildings all over Berlin – that’s him…… Read More Berlin Street Art 2
We went to the opening of Preview Berlin: The Emerging Art Fair last night. Sixty-one international galleries, from London to Israel, have set up exhibits in the open space of Hangar 2 of the former Tempelhof Airport. Most of the galleries are from Germany, and of those, the majority are from Berlin, presenting a good overview of the… Read More Preview Berlin
Berlin is a world hub for the street art scene. It is everywhere and, as is the nature of street art, forever being re-plastered and re-painted over. Here are some photos I took in Friedrichshain at the weekend… For more on Berlin Street Art, this blog has info about well-known artists and crews working in the city, The New York… Read More Berlin Street Art
Turning the Seventh Corner is an installation by Tim Noble and Sue Webster currently at the newly opened Blain|Southern gallery in Berlin. The installation, made in collaboration with architect David Adjaye, was inspired by the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs and is an allusion to the Book of Proverbs, 9:1 – “Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out… Read More Turning the Seventh Corner
This former bunker at Reinhardstrasse 20 in Berlin Mitte houses a private art collection belonging to Christian Boros. Built in 1942 by the Reichsbahn, its two metre thick exterior walls and three metre thick roof slabs sheltered thousands of people from air raids during the war. After the war, being in the Soviet part of the city,… Read More The Boros Collection
This gallery has a big name but small scope. One usually associates Guggenheim museums with vast collections, famous artists and notable works; the Deusche Guggenheim has none of these. … Read More The Deutsche “Guggenheim”
Not many people visit this gallery in Potsdamer Platz due to its slightly out of the way location in relation to Museumsinsel. However, it holds one of the most important collections of European art dating from the 13th to the early 19th century. Most notably, it is home to the second largest collection of Rembrants in the world after the Rembrant… Read More The Gemäldegalerie
An Englishman in Berlin 