The Bpigs Diaries offer a peek under the art market hood; what are the power dynamics, access and gatekeeping, and the current tension holders. Let's discuss!
FRIDAY 12.10 Jeongmoon Choi @ re:MMX Sarah Westphal @ Galerie Zink Arcane of Patterns @ mindpirates Conversation with Wael Shawky @ KW What is it to be Chinese? @ Grimmuseumread more
Did you know that www.bpigs.com is banned in China? Here's what happened during the last three weeks in Shanghai: "Reactivation" the 9th Shanghai Biennale: The Academy of Reciprocal Enlightenment a lot of work to be done one week before opening...read more
Say it loud. On words and actions @ District, 2011111111111s @ LEAP, Appartement Re: Installed @ Atelierhof Kreuzberg THURSDAY 04.10 Say it loud. On words and actions @ District FRIDAY 05.10 2011111111111s @ LEAP Appartement Reinstalled @...read more
Conceived as a hybrid space for exhibitions, events and short-time residency projects, turned into a weekly dinner event exhibiting emerging artists, promptly established as Berlin's melting pot of the expat crowd, and raised to the category of...read more
On the occasion of their final exhibition "Rita, Sagen Sie jetzt nichts!", the graduates of the Goldrausch Program 2012 , are also hosting a series of events at Kunstverein Tiergarten, Galerie Nord. Tonight on the program: Goldrausch artists...read more
*********************** In New York , as in life, you have to move in a firm pace. (Why? Let's say there is no other way). This is not easy when you don't know where you are going. It is hard to keep the tempo with your head bent over your smart...read more
THURSDAY 27.09 Richard Mosse, Linn Pedersen, Young & Giroux, Mauro Cerqueira and Zuspiel @ Künstlerhaus Bethanien FRIDAY 28.09 The Artist as Curator's Art vol. II @ Schaufenster Red @ Catine Aqua Carre Arch+ features 15 Party @ St. Agnes...read more
Es geht hier auch um Homogenisierungen der städtischen Struktur, auf eine Weise, die sowohl die qualitative Beschaffenheit, sowie Dichte und Permeabilität der städtischen Oberfläche betrifft. Mit anderen Worten: Neben einem Projekt der...
Liebe Freunde der Kantine, Auch diese Woche verlassen wir wieder einmal unsere geliebte kleine Farm in der K36 und besuchen Freunde in der Klosterstrasse. Im ehemaligen Fernmeldeamt, ex-WMF, heutigen Theaterdiscounter und Schrott-Disse. Einen...
FRIDAY 21.09 Rock'n'roll People @ Tropen SATURDAY 22.09 artist Johannes Buss Finissage September Issue@ Atelierhof Kberg with live from HERZANGST feat. CLOSTER of GRAN HORNO (Catherine Lorent) and Laura Bruce with her band Dangerpony Daniel...read more
Rosa Barba (carlier gebauer) how many gallerists are needed to make something work? To be perfectly honest, I thought abc was kind of blah. Ok let me rephrase that. abc was fine, people liked it, quite a few LOVED IT (our editor Maria Santos for...read more
Fall has always been my favourite season with a reason, and this past week has only confirmed that. We had Boros' refurbishing, Johann König's festive secularization of St. Agnes, Preview, plenty of Berlin galleries proudly presenting their new...read more
As opposed to the Miss Read fair last year, where if you were at KW that weekend, you were there for the books, the book fair this year acts as more of a supplement to the larger abc. Miss Read's integration into abc is most likely advantageous to...read more
The long-awaited art berlin contemporary kicked off yesterday morning at Station-Berlin revealing itself as one of the most exciting events of the season. Featuring the newest positions in the contemporary art scene, this time under no subject and...read more
If collecting is a virus- I think I got it: Acquire unique objects that will guide, inspire, comfort and maybe even bore and enrage you throughout your life. Objects you and you alone possess (and are possessed by). I get it. To enrich my...read more
I am looking at cranes. This is correct yes? Starting backwards- Cyprien Gaillard did it again to our city! abc sneak peeks - during installation David Adamo @Ibid Ignacio Uriarte @FiggevonRosen Jenni Tischler @Krobath Klemm Gallery Der Geist von...read more
In the uncertainty of our ever shifting art times; where anybody could be somebody any minute (and nobody the next), nobody risks disappointing a conversation partner who might eventually outrank him, politeness is religion and negation does not...read more
1work/1room/1night #2: Sofia Bempeza & Vana Kostayola @ Gitte Bohr, Yunchul Kim, "Carved Air" @ Schering Stiftung, Ethan Hayes Chute @ Kinderhook & Caracas, Gary Hume & Thomas Demand @ Sprüth Magers, From the Age of Poets @ Aanant...read more
Unfortunately I've been unable to write the blog for the past 2 weeks as I somehow managed to get Salmonella (which I had half thought was a made-up illness used to ward off children from licking the bowl when making cakes) so I ended up spending...read more
BPIGS, first issue budget plan - June 2010 “The identity of an artist doesn’t have to be a truthful one, they believed. (about Duchamp and Man Ray) What they were doing was unpicking the conventions.” Jennifer Mundy, curator of Duchamp, Man Ray,...read more
Michaela Meise, "Adieu St. Agnes" @St. Agnes Church, Lorenzo Sandoval "Ivy over Ivy" and BrokenToujours.eu @ Büro BDP, "In the mirror of myself" @Galerie Zink, Philipp Fürhofer "...und immer nur Spuren von möglichen Welten..." @ Verein zur...read more
St. Agnes church - Wed night Michaela Meise performed church songs that relate to her recent album Preis dem Todesüberwinder Berlin is apparently a teenager of 772 years old. I am not quite sure how old the art scene in Berlin is, but all...read more
Letters from the Field @ Atelierhof Kreuzberg, NOT BY DEFAULT- post internet art @DAM, Wael Shawky @ KW, Alte Meister, Neue Geister @ Scotty Enterprises WEDNESDAY 22.08 Letters from the Field @ Atelierhof Kreuzberg THURSDAY 23.08 About face @...read more
