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The Friday Image: Coffee is a Social Activity, by Sandy Di Yu
Sandy Di Yu is a Berlin-based artist. For more, check out her Instagram.
The Friday Image: Waiting for the Bus, by Sandy Di Yu
When I think about where I came from and all I can remember is waiting for the bus a lot… Continue reading
STATE Festival Berlin: The Sentimental Machine
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. Continue reading
Glass Making in Berlin Schönholz
Berlin Glas e.V. offers glass-making courses which will ensure you never look at glass the same way again… Continue reading
No Compromises! The Art of Boris Lurie at the Jewish Museum Berlin
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!” Continue reading
Exhibition: There’s no place like time
There’s no place like time is an art exhibition with a twist. Continue reading
Short Film: Rhino Full Throttle, A Berlin Love Story
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. Continue reading
Exhibition: Obedience at the Jewish Museum Berlin
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. Continue reading
The Bode Museum marks the 70th Anniversary of End of World War Two
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. Continue reading
Creative in Berlin: Jenny Brockmann
Berlin artist Jenny Brockmann talks about her work and relationship to the city. Continue reading
Creative in Berlin: Laura Fong Prosper
Visual artist Laura Fong Prosper has been living in Berlin since 2007. Her solo video exhibition Gēn opens tonight at the Vesselroom Project. Continue reading
Erich Kissing at Galerie Schwind
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. Continue reading
Studio Visit Berlin
Studio Visit Berlin is a door to the city’s vibrant art scene… Continue reading
Villa Grisebach
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. Continue reading
Gallery Weekend, Berlin
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. Continue reading
R.B. Kitaj: Obsessions Exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin
The first large-scale retrospective of R.B Kitaj’s work in fourteen years is currently on at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Continue reading
Exhibition Opening: Condition Humaine at the Laden Gallery
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. Continue reading
Gerhard Richter: Panorama at the Neue Nationalgalerie
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 … Continue reading
Berlin Street Art 2
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… Continue reading
Preview Berlin
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 … Continue reading
Berlin Street Art
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 … Continue reading
