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!
1. I love Berliners: so many open, friendly, willing to engage with you German people who are interested in art, current affairs, new ideas and even just off the press clueless Auslander impressions of their beloved Deutschland. Curious about what...
Steven Warwick @ Kinderhook & Caracas, NYU Studio MA Thesis Show @ Grimmuseum, Steff Loewenbaum @ last show at DUVE before moving WEDNESDAY 01.08 Steven Warwick @ Kinderhook & Caracas NYU Studio MA Thesis Show @ Grimmuseum SATURDAY 03.08...read more
1work / 1room / 1night @ Gitte Bohr, DRAW, Victoria's last night@bar 3, ChessBoxing @Platoon to be honest I was not aware who the cute old couple were @Schinkel Pavillion- RIP Franz West. WEDNESDAY 25.07 1work / 1room / 1night Part 1: Ondrej Brody...read more
Back in February, when I had gotten all intern crazy and spent a week actually joking about building the "pigs" army. I met this girl, the last of a series of young people offering to do everything for nothing. She had been a while in Berlin, got...read more
Part Two My involvement with Bpigs has been a bit…haphazard to date. The post you are about to read in now, is approximately 5 months delayed. To summarize … It was February, I was unemployed and running out of money fast …on the brink of a self...read more
Our Likes our now complete- Maria , Rachel , Christian and mine below. Now your turn! Send in or comment online the 5 things you absolutey adore about Berlin and its art scene. We will post all half -way sane answers with a name, as soon as we get...read more
First things first: in the Art Scene 1. Focusing, filtering, setting clear interests and establishing your own networks. Something I learned over the last years is that this process can be really revealing and satisfying, especially in a city with...
What I like about art in Berlin 1. Never ending event calendar : There are so many openings, events, lectures, performances, and parties to choose from every day and night! Therefore, when I am not doing anything especially productive, instead of...
Despina Stokou- if you don't watch out you are going to end up a curator 2012 in situ installation, Derek Eller Gallery NY Stargastkoch Despina Stokou, gerade eben erst jet-set-mässig von ihrer ersten New Yorker Ausstellung zurückgekehrt, ist...
Miha Erman, "Room with no Echo" @ Galerie Kuchling, Body Controlled #4 @ LEAP, Workshop Xth Sense with Marco Donnarumma @ LEAP, Preview Bomb Gallery @ Galerie Axel Obiger, Rundgang 2012 @ UdK, Rundgang der Kunsthochschule Weißensee 2012 @...read more
Japanther @ Marie Antoinette, Paul McCarthy @ Neue Nationalgalerie, Cia Rinne & Anders Lauge Meldgaard Performance @ Grimmuseum, Robert Montgomery @ Tempelhof from the press release sent out yesterday : "Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic...read more
After climbing the stairs to the top floor of an old industrial building, now Delloro Contemporary Art, one enters Wolfgang Stiller’s installation, Laboratory I, an installation that feels like a combination of the backstage office at the natural...read more
-Why did you come to Berlin to work? -I have promised myself I will not answer any more questions about Berlin. First of all football. So Germany triumphs over Greece, to get beaten to a pulp by Italy, who in their turn got absolutely ridiculed by...read more
The Palimpsest of Democracy - on "The Draftmen's Congress" by Pawel Althamer at the Berlin Biannual 7 Several of Gitte’s texts in this series have been concerned with the repellant, slick, hydrophobic, etc. surface in design and technology as a...
As Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pecuchet have shown us, trying to learn only from books and no experience only leads to one failure after another. Sometimes we need to take a closer look at the educational system and how knowledge is produced in order...read more
Cia Rinne believes that if you only speak one language you are limited in your thinking because you can only express things in one way. In her show, Sounds for Soloists, at Grimmuseum, Rinne showcases her ability to express herself through an...read more
Karla Black @ Schinkel Pavillion, Vadim Fishkin @ Galerija Gregor Rodnar, Harald Klingelhöller @ Konrad Fischer Galerie, Wolfgang Stiller, Laboratory I and Andreas Zingerle, Squeeze @ Delloro Contemporary Art, Cia Rinne, Sounds for Soloists @...read more
A Tale of Three Cities Berlin Bookswap @ Geist im Glas, Alfredo Jaar Opening Afterparty @ Prince Charles, Impress Me @ NGBK, Positioning Osmotic Impulses @ Former Neukölln Prison THURSDAY 14.06 Alfredo Jaar. The way it is @ Berlinische Galerie A...read more
The ultimate guide to Art Basel- All you need to know about the super art fair- the absolute highlights. If such a thing is even possible, this is not it. The first thing I noticed in Art Basel is that I did not get in. In Kassel ( Documenta!!! )...read more
Kassel: Real-Unreel screening with Francis Alys; Art Magazine party @Ekstase, professional preview Berlin: Films and Windows I @ Mathew Gallery, Hilaron Manero "2011" @ 7hours Haus 19, Sameheads/Purge/Ocvlto Party Kassel If the sound of the Art...read more
