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!

2015

Tips 12.02 - 21.02

Roses are red, violets are blue, Friday is 13th and Saturday Valentine's Day. Two sides of the same coin, or? Without any exagerrated superstitious or (anti)romantic tendencies, we do recommend to step out of your zone and find great spots to...read more

Music Tips 03.02 - 16.02

Keepin' it loud in the next two weeks with post-punk delicacies, wasted dreamy hipsters, genre-transcending hybrids, black-veiled spiritual droners and candy-coated noise rockers. Cross your fingers for some free tickets (try and get them here )...read more

Second

In the last month, between Christmas, New Years, friends visiting, changing jobs and the chaos of moving I cherished the precious time spent for visiting some of Berlin's galleries, events and exhibitions. Often dragging people to accompany me to...read more
Eigen + Art Lab team, Johanna, Judy and Anne

Have you met... Eigen+Art Lab

We had a chance to catch-up with Eigen & Art Lab team before their pre-opening party on Friday evening. After almost three years spent in the Mädchenschule on Auguststrasse, they are moving location and team, with Anne Schwanz and Johanna...read more

Tips 27.01 - 09.02

Berlin might have got 99 problems, but shortage of events is certainly not one. In the middle of CTM and transmediale, with Berlin Fashion Week behind us and Berlinale coming up, we could talk ages about what you should not miss, and what is...read more

Music Tips 22.01 - 03.02

Music-wise, in the next two weeks, CTM Festival will clearly steal the attention as the highlight (of the year?) in Berlin (and worldwide?). Beyond the festival program, there are few more very special gigs not-to-be-missed. To support our „attend...read more

Tips 13.01 - 28.01

"Fitter, happier, more productive"... Thom Yorke of The Radiohead got the January spirit right. As soon as the holiday leftovers and hangovers are gone, the all-too-familiar new year's resolutions begin. Be one step ahead of your own...read more
Image courtesy of Jennifer Lyn Morone™ Inc

Artist contribution: Jennifer Lyn Morone

"NO MONEY, NO DATA" could be one of Jennifer Lyn Morone's motto. She incorporated herself so that now, everything she is or has can be bought. Her artistic contribution for this online issue, focusing more specifically on the problem of data-...read more

Music Tips 06.01 - 20.01

A brave new season is ahead; starting with an eight-day ride with Kraftwerk, two brand new concert series, a renaissance of sonic experimenters of all kinds at various Berlin stages, and all of that being only an overture for the CTM festival...read more

2014

Tips 30.12 - 12.01

Cheers to an amazing new year! 2015 is kicking off spectacular with various kinds of parties (check out our NYE selection below), and some truly intriguing exhibitions opening early in January. It is a promising start of what we expect to be a...read more
Nancy Reagan & Mister T - Christmas 1983

All I Want For Christmas

Dear Santa, socks are cool, but if we could choose one thing we want to see under the Christmas tree, it would be an unaffordable piece of art, of course. This year we saw way more of those than we could even remember, but some are still haunting...read more

Tips 16.12 - 31.12

Ladies and gents, our last 2014 tips! Before we start revising the year and its best and worst moments, we still have to do some gift shopping and event hopping. For those who are in Berlin for the holidays, there are still plenty of Christmas...read more
Cafe Moskau

first

I am losing track of time. This morning I had to check, and turns out my interns bpigs timer is now past one month. Perfect time to post my overdue first post. Looking back I have no idea where this time went… so I skip through my event photos,...read more
Friends with Books

Have you met... Vanessa Adler & Savannah Gorton

Featuring more than 100 international publishing houses, bookstores, magazines and institutions as well as a series of public programs, the first edition of Friends with Books sounds more than promising. The Berlin art book fair will open for us...read more

Rudolph the Red Nose Berliner

It is a special day every year, the day I hear Rudolph the red nose reindeer for the first time. I was always impressed by this Christmas song, which is NOT about how six mammals fly around the world carrying a carriage full of presents and quite...read more

Music Tips 09.12 - 22.12

Christmas screams in our ears everywhere we go, and everyone seems to be slowing down with happenings while having a kick out of jingle bell jazz at fairs and markets. But worry not; our slightly starved pre-holiday list is going to grow stronger...read more
art basel miley cyrus performance

Fuck Yeah Basel

“You have to be careful!!! “ she grabs my hand and hisses in my ear “he is a very dangerous guy…” I have to look away and hide a laugh at this, she seems so earnest in warning me, woman to woman, how Stefan Simchowitz can take off my art panties...read more
Larry Abramson - Das kleine Blumenbuch at Circle1

Pre-interview: Larry Abramson

In this series, Bpigs highlights artists and their work just before their openings. An inside look into the studio practice and many other (ir)relevant thoughts that go through an artists mind before their proverbial 15 minutes of fame. We had the...read more

Tips 02.12 - 14.12

It is officially holiday season, and whatever is normally your favorite weekend fun, it is probably by now replaced with gallons of Glühwein and wasting money Christmas-drunk at gazillions of markets. Even the art spaces are trying to blend in...read more
Pierre-Etienne Morelle and Hester Oerlemans - Ozean

Pre-interview: Pierre-Étienne Morelle & Hester Oerlemans

Due to fundamentally different ideas about engagement in contemporary art, Hester Oerlemans decided that it was time to move on with OZEAN and host the last performance in that space. Back in 2010, Hester Oerlemans created her project space by...read more

Music Tips 25.11 - 08.12

The techno mecca is being invaded these days by touareg, r'n'r, hip-hop and pop tribes - among many others, that is. To prove how wonderfully diverse the scene is, and how many exciting events are happening every day, here is our heavily reduced...read more

Tips 18.11 - 01.12

Drama Drama Drama! The Team is grieving and California dreamin', for Despina is leaving Berlin for a sunnier place. All the luck to you, Queen D! While the alpha and omega of Bpigs is conquering LA, we will keep ourselves busy and distracted with...read more
Drama drama drama - Despina Stokou

Drama Drama Drama by Despina Stokou

Despina Stokou Untitled 2014 Oil crayon on paper Courtesy of the artistread more

Music Tips 13.11 - 24.11

Welcome to the first ever Bpigs all-music-guide! Here we lay all the shiniest pearls of the Berlin music calender - our favorite upcoming gigs, parties & festivals, freshly listed every two weeks. What's in it for you, besides a concise...read more

Tips 04.11 - 17.11

Last weekend Halloween reminded us of the power of masks and makeovers. This week we devoted ourselves to the idea of change in different ways, and even decided to give Bpigs a bit of a tweak here and there. From now on our Tips run every second...read more

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