Blog entries by Maria Santos
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by Maria Santos, 4 May 2016Bpigs had the chance to meet up with Manuel Raeder from Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite while visiting Libros Mutantes in Madrid. The all-round designer behind the German publishing house with the musical Portuguese name is certainly known to Berliners due to design endeavors such as the sustainable architecture of abc... -
by Maria Santos, 26 Apr 2016Libros Mutantes is arguably one of the most interesting dates for art book lovers and independent publishers from every corner of Europe. The Madrid based fair is one of the youngest and international ones dedicated to independent printed matter and their intricated relationship with audiovisual arts. On its seventh... -
by Maria Santos, 29 Feb 2016We can now officilly say that the art hangover was totally worth it. Our Madrid adventure probably turned out more intense (and wet) than expected, but we feel lucky to have been able to see a good deal of galleries and artists from all over the world in many different formats. Before Arcomadrid... -
by Maria Santos, 11 Feb 2016Bpigs is currently in Madrid, the capital of Spain, of pinchos de tortilla and beautiful, idyllic blue skies straight out from a Windows desktop. We have told you about the city's vibrant cultural scene before and we are going to keep doing it in the near future, since this month we've got a good number... -
by Maria Santos, 21 Feb 2014What is to be found at ARCOmadrid 2014? The good, the predictable, the slightly uncomfortable -yet correct- and all that glitters at the Spanish fair. Yesterday, Bpigs brought you a sneak peek of ARCOmadrid. Today, the fair finally opens to the general public, and as of day two, this is what we saw and commented on... -
by Maria Santos, 4 Jun 2013Marino Auriti's "Il Palazzo Encyclopedico del Mondo, (ca.1950s), surrounded by photographs by J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere Spread between the Central Pavilion at the Giardini and part of the Arsenale, the exhibition curated by Masimiliano Gioni displays, as expected, contemporary art in all shapes and sizes, but... -
by Maria Santos, 30 May 2013Insanity and Architecture in historical palazzos. Another sneak peak into 55.Venice Biennale Edvard Munch and Lene Berg: "Beware of the Holy Whore", Norway's representation at the Biennale at Bevilaqualamasa, San Marco In front of the building, the workers of the institution protesting Inside the... -
by Maria Santos, 18 May 2013As the Preview of the 55th Venice Biennale approaches (barely one week to go), the Bigs Team gets busy scheduling one of their most important dates with the arts in a broader international context. As a result, we have started our very own “Venice Survival Guide“ that will attempt to make it reasonably... -
by Maria Santos, 18 Jan 2013Yesterday, Bpigs had the chance to meet up with Berlin's youngest curator while working on his show "Daddy, YOU can't make a Cactus... this has been done!" at Grimmuseum. In the span of ten years, Cato J. Dibelius has visited over four hundred international exhibitions. That is roughly over forty... -
by Maria Santos, 6 Jan 2013In summer 2010 we started a blog feature highlighting the very different protagonists of the most current and independent projects of the Berlin art scene. Through a handful of interviews, we got to introduce to some of our Bpigs spaces as well as other special guests. On some occasions we conducted group interviews... -
by Maria Santos, 23 Dec 2012WEDNESDAY 19.12 Bar Babette - Christmas Sale organized by Daniel Kingery ( 7 works were sold) dj Marc Bijl work by Cecile Evans (relatively) new arty restaurant - ( don't try this at home, if you are paying) NEW! Mescal tasting bar and Mexican design shop - on tor str 116 ; next to... -
by Maria Santos, 17 Dec 2012THURSDAY 13.12 KItty Kraus @ Galerie Neu Perspective @ G9 Galleria Nove Festive Neptune @ Alexanderplatz SATURDAY 15.12 Jan van Oost, "The Demon Love". With a music performance by Anne Müller @ Galerie Rolando Anselmi Sergio Ragalzi, "Madre_Oro... -
by Maria Santos, 10 Dec 2012THURSDAY 06.12 Blows to the temple @ Atelierhof Kreuzberg FRIDAY 07.12 Şakir Gökçebağ @ Tanas Hito Steyerl @ pro qm Edition 2012 @ Scotty Enterprises Adrian Buschmann @ EINE Galerie Christian Patterson @ Robert Morat SATURDAY 08.12... -
by Maria Santos, 3 Dec 2012FRIDAY 30.11 Max Beckmann Benefit Auction @ Villa Grisebach (1.000.000€ raised in no more than half an hour...) Bruce McLean, Time-based Painting @ Tanya Leighton Mise-en-Scène. Skulpturale Rhetorik @ Kwadrat Roses & videogames... @ The Boss Studio Party ... -
by Maria Santos, 18 Nov 2012TUESDAY 13.11 Japanther + Die Eternias @ Marie Antoinette THURSDAY 15.11 Liquid Archive @ Import Projects FRIDAY 16.11 Kitchen Talk @ Klemm's Katja Novitskova @ Kraupa-Tuskany Harun Farocki @ Galerie Barbara Weiss Landschaften | Landscapes Nachrichten zum Weltuntergang... -
by Maria Santos, 12 Nov 2012WEDNESDAY 07.11 Fokus Grupa @ Gitte Bohr - Club für Kunst und politisches Denken THURSDAY 08.11 Malerei der 80er Jahre / Nina Pohl @ Sprüth Magers Tacita Dean & Anna-Catharina Gebbers @ Zum Beispiel Berlin FRIDAY 09.11 Believers @ Kow Joel Sternfeld Retrospective @ c/o... -
by Maria Santos, 5 Nov 2012WEDNESDAY 31.10 Drop Dead 10th Anniversary Party @ Cube Club Symposium Fluid Cosmologies I @ Schering Stiftung SATURDAY 03.11 Zinefest Berlin @ SFE Marinella Senatore's parade @ Mitte Iris Touliatou @ Duve SUNDAY 04.11 Tacita Dean & Jérôme Bel @ HAU2 Ornament... -
by Maria Santos, 28 Oct 2012THURSDAY 25.10 Oliver Möst @ Galerie Axel Obiger Hajnal Németh @ Invaliden1 Otolith Group and Falke Pisano @ District FRIDAY 26.10 My safe reduction to form @ Exile Antonia & Jens Nordmann @ Stedefreund Axel Lieber @ Hengesbach Gallery Jonathan Monk @ Meyer Riegger SATURDAY...
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