Diaries

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!

2021

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This is exactly how I feel with everything reopening (too fast?) and having to shave my legs again. Selin Wutzler "16 : 18 : 15 : 3 : 5 : 19 : 19" performance this Friday June 18th at 19h (This video has a very enjoyable, very fitting, and very...read more
Image: #MonaBroschar „Trendsetter“ via #EveLeibeGallery.

Tips This Week

I spent a disproportional amount of time the last two days looking for a starting image to announce the Gallery Weekend Berlin is having a summer do-over next weekend June 18-19th. Something that says fresh beginnings, something that says re-...read more

Freie Kunst- und Kultur in planetaren Grenzen: Kolloquium mit Vorträgen

Freie Kunst- und Kulturproduktion findet projektweise statt, meist mit besonderem Aufwand für Materialeinsatz, Reisen und Transport. Wie kann die Freie Szene zur Entlastung der Umwelt beitragen? Das Haus der Materialisierung (HdM) als Beispiel für...read more

THINK! - an auditive online series

One thing we have been enjoying during this uncertain period is alternative cultural formats. Case in point: THINK! - an auditive online series. What impact do news and headlines have – especially if one needs to follow their directives. How do...read more

GALLERY CLIMATE COALITION

Green is the new Black! We have had a lot of time this last year to think how we can make the art market a more sustainable place and we are happy to see some initiatives growing towards that direction, even if they are ultimately powered by...read more

Gallery Weekend 2021

It is Aperol Spritz time, and nothing, NOTHING will take this away from us. Well, I can think of a few things, but let's move on. Let's make some new memories, people; let's start forgetting this year ever happened. We want to know what you are up...read more
TF Founders © Lukas Städler

THE FAIREST- TEASER 01

THE FAIREST is a fresh initiative launched by Eleonora Sutter and Georgie Pope to support young, emerging, or independent artists and creators. Artists, regardless of gallery representation or medium, typically without access to fairs, are...read more

FICTIONS: Open Call

FICTIONS: An anthology centering queer voices in/from/across South Asia a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. kal Call for Submissions: Until 15 April 2021 For District's Berlin upcoming fiction anthology, they are looking for...read more

Public Jury Session for the Urban-Practitioner-in-Residence

ON FEB 18th 2021, 6-9 PM, Floating e.V will hold a public jury session, as part of their open call for urban practitioners. During the session, five finalists will present their project proposals for the site of the Floating University Berlin,...read more

Tips This Week

You know when you are waiting for the bus in the rain and it takes a while, and then you say fuck it I ll walk, you start walking and then the bus splashes you right past in what seems like the next second? It is coming, people. The bus is coming...read more
M. Behrmann, Ohne Titel (Raut), 2021 Wood, colour laquer 110 x 72 x 40 cm

A brief history of Berlin exclusivism

I was minding my own business one post-2020 afternoon (yesterday) when scrolling through the ad-lgorythm that is Instagram these days; I happened upon the latest Berlin art venture: the Clubhouse. An experience so exclusive it might as well not...read more

2020

Vikenti Komitski "The World", Edition of 75 +5 AP unique pieces, silksceen on map- 33,7 x 50 .5 each

2020 C U Next Tuesday

As this year, the year that will from now on be referred to as THAT year comes to an end, I couldn't help but wonder… what does it all mean. Do global pandemics need to happen for a reason? No. But happened it did, and I am curious if we, we the...read more

Kettenkarussell / chain carousel

Concerts, dialogues, live drawing: An open-air salon in two parts of the artist group "Die Kette" Tuesday, 15 September 2020, doors: 19:00 h, start: 20:00 h, Open-air stage at Suicide Club Bertil Thomas (Live Sets) Gabriele Gysi & Thomas Götz...read more

Long Live Zwischennutzung

Berlin is Berlin is Berlin, lost collectors, art fairs and Corona be damned. New industrial space needs clients? Here comes the art to smooth the path along. With: Thomas Arnolds, Julius von Bismarck, Catherine Biocca, Sol Calero, Keltie Ferris,...read more
Rirkrit Tiravanija, MORGEN IST DIE FRAGE for Studio Berlin 2020 at Berghain (installation rendering)

STUDIO BERLIN

FROM SEPTEMBER 9 TO WHEN THE CLUB REOPENS In the STUDIO BERLIN exhibition, the Boros Foundation presents the works of over eighty contemporary artists who live and work in Berlin. The show features national and international perspectives in the...read more
When This Is Over...I am Going to Get a Divorce

Is Art Essential?

I think this is an excellent moment to start over in the art scene: Educate collectors, gallerists, art lovers, even artists. Any reform in the art world and one is now sorely needed, should start in the ways we talk and write about Art. Starting...read more

ART IS ALWAYS LONELY

Art is always lonely. It is lonely in its conception because you need to quiet the voices in your head. It is lonely in its process because you left it too long, and now you have to finish the damn show. It is lonely in its social context because...read more
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OPEN CALL FOR the FIELD KITCHEN ACADEMY Educational Residency at WÜSTEN BUCHHOLZ,

Open call for an educational residency with: BILL FONTANA (composer and video artist), HANS PETER KUHN (sound and visual artist), SEBASTIAN MULLAERT a.k.a MINILOGUE (producer and DJ), OVE HOLMQVIST (sound artist), HANS ROSENSTRÖM (sound artist),...read more

Our picks from Berlin_Views

Another beautiful, fresh initiative this week trying to navigate a brave new world of semi-isolation. Berlin galleries have joined forces to create BerlinViews, a website format present­ing over 25 galleries and gallery models. Initiated by Office...read more
Alles wird gut (Everything Will Be Alright), 2020 Simon Mullan

Alles Wird Gut

Berlin galleries are stirring up again from the self-imposed quarantine as the State is now allowing non-essential businesses with spaces smaller than 800-square-meters (8,600 square feet) to reopen starting Monday, April 20. Galleries and...read more

Artist Support Pledge

project initiated by Matthew Burrows Here is another idea taking form currently on Intagram ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many artists have found themselves without work, teaching, technical support and gallery work...read more
picture by André Schlechtriem of Dittrich & Schlechtriem

Die Balkone. Life, art, pandemic, proximity in windows & balconies

"If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy." (Jean Genet, The Balcony) So here we are. We can be we, but not…read more
pic by @ClemensWilhelm in Berlin Neukölln.

No I don't want to zoom I want to look at the moon

pic by Clemens Wilhelm in Berlin Neukölln I miss FOMO. I miss opting out. I miss lipstick. Not on me, on you. I miss Aperols and Margaritas and impromptu picnics on the grass and babies running around and touching stuff. Dirty Fingernails. Licking...read more

Berlin Masters Open Call

BERLIN MASTERS is a promotion platform and a curated exhibition for artists under the age of 30, living and working in Berlin. Initiated by the art expert, Matthias Arndt in 2013, the BERLIN MASTERS exhibition is held annually in various prominent...read more

ZK/U OPEN CALL 2020

GLOBAL MEETS LOCAL. ZK/U is a residency and platform for creative and urban experimentation. Through its glocal program, ZK/U explores and critiques existing knowledge and practices in urban agglomerations as a springboard to individual and...read more

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