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Last week Berlin had a hot&cold thing going on. Besides the standard combo (hot people + cold drinks), it went a bit crazy with fireballs in the freezing Berlin night and snowmen in the melting African sun. THURSDAY 07.11 Jutta Koether @...read more
I’ve been thinking a lot about Van Gogh recently. This might be because I recently watched the episode of Scandal where the team is mailed a disembodied ear. It also could have to do with the beautiful white van in my neighborhood lined with Van...read more
Stormy weather everywhere, including the artworld. Besides the tips listed below, this week pay attention to the performance by Penny Rafferty and the still ongoing debate on Painting Forever!, and don´t feel shy take notes from Joanna who...read more
A brief overview of all things we did not miss last week while dodging the flying eggs (somebody could've warned us that that's what kids do here on Halloween) and collecting worried looks aimed at our slightly innapropriate costumes. WEDNESDAY 30...read more
For the most of us Berlin Art Week may be an euphoric art experience somewhere back in September. Yes, we all went to the ABC art fair to catch up with the galleries’ freshest, attended openings – the more the merrier – and got silly drunk at...read more
There are a few things you get used to while being an intern… -Working for free... Because who has money? (Not interns…) -Minimal direction... I was trained by Adela on a need-to-know basis, which I thought was a pretty effective strategy. Old...read more
Bosco Sodi (Thursday 31.10 @ Eigen + Art Lab) Have you already decided what to wear for Halloween and where to wear it? We actually have answers to both. Skip the boring mask this year and follow Nathan's instructions , you'll be fine wherever you...read more
Last week we said goodbye to our lovely intern Eva who is heading back to Prague. Conveniently, the week turned out to be more eventful than ever; the parties lasted longer than usual and there were more openings than we could possibly attend...read more
Nicola Samori (Saturday 26.10 @ Galerie Christian Ehrentraut) From a wordy symposium to a dancey night out; whatever direction your mood is swinging this week, we have a place for you to feel at home. Read our tips carefully and you may also find...read more
Coming out of ABC Berlin, and headed to FIAC Paris, we stop in London for one of the iconic art fairs that is part of the Frieze Foundation projects, Frieze Art Fair London. The Frieze fair, celebrating its 10th anniversary, while still semi-...read more
If you have been checking your calendar regularly, then you know Halloween is coming up next weekend. If you are avoiding facing the fact that summer is over, just revel in the photograph above of me at a Halloween party my friends and I threw...read more
Full moon inspired many of us to do weird things this weekend. See what you've missed while we're assembling a moon related music playlist to recreate the Lynchian atmosphere that creeped upon us... FRIDAY 18.10 “OH HIMMEL, STRAHLENDER AZUR…” @...read more
Do you see that bright red light? When a computer dies, its screen often defaults to a cerulean blue screen affectionately called “the blue screen of death”. Likewise, when the WLAN in my flat fails, our router displays what I like to call “the...read more
While being out of the city we might or might not have missed a lot, but we are happy to be back for a fun arty weekend. Halloween in Berlin already begins in a few days (or does it ever stop?), and if the suit makes a man, then this week you can...read more
Rain, rain, go away, come again never. Ever. But bring the rest of the Bpigs team back! As half of the Bpigs staff was out of the country this week, Eva and Nathan took to the town to bring you the best (and worst) of last week. FRIDAY 11.10.13...read more
While I was debating whether or not to review Starbucks as an artistic institution , Despina suggested it might be more fruitful to check out Döner shops instead—it would be much more Berlin! Up for the challenge, I eagerly biked to Kreuzberg to...read more
We thought you might need a break from the reality in which Putin is nominated for Nobel Peace Prize and Madonna is turning to curating art on Twitter, so we brought you a list of events that guarantees an escape into the realms of underground,...read more
Yay for the national holiday! It gave us an illusion of a weekend that lasts forever, although it was only one day off (two for the luckier ones). Some of us used the extra time to get even busier and some decided to lose and let loose. However,...read more
I grew up on a 30 square-kilometer island. There were between seven and nine Starbucks on our island, depending on whom you asked. As both the cool place to hang out (when you were 12 years old) and a part of your daily routine (when you were 40...read more
Miriam Temme ( Friday 04.10 @ GiftRaum) Busy as usual, Berlin offers you too many interesting things this week; therefore we bring you our neatly planned schedule. Start moderately serious on Wednesday, on Thursday take it easy at a garden...read more
Last week at a three-day retreat in downtown Berlin, Marina instructed Slideshow Johnny in the Abramovic Method--a series of exercises designed to heighten participants' awareness of their physical and mental experience in the present moment...read more
Last week's events weren't about seeing as many as possible like the week before, but they did keep some of the festive glow. From the posh L40 to the happy-go-geeky LEAP, each one was packed and full of positive energy. People were talkative and...read more
If you just landed from the moon and missed the whole action, or if you have three more days in Berlin before taking off- THESE are the shows you should go see. No drinks, no pics, no tweets. Just art. JUSTIN MATHERLY: Community I cannot believe I...read more
While we waited at Michael Janssen gallerie last week for John Baldessari to arrive (late, against all odds) at the preview reception, Meg Cranston, his work partner, filled us in on the collaborative pieces they had made for their show Real...read more
After founding the successful DESIGNERDOCK recruitment agency in 1996, Alexander Dewhirst decided to create a networking project for artists to do what DESIGNERDOCK did for the communication industry. Artistdock aims to link artists and curators,...read more
