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mobile pics from the events we visited... WEDNESDAY 07.12 Exhibition 01) Wunderblock: Traces of process, document and memory @ Grimmuseum THURSDAY 08.12 Dove is a colour in my place @ Kreuzberg Pavillon Neukölln with Andreas Helfer, Georg Parthen...read more
Dear Diary, Winter has arrived and I am spending more and more days at home.. so this time no stories about bars. Or maybe a few.... because on Sunday Despina took me and the other girls, Maria and Rachel from Pigs, out for dinner at Themroc and...read more
Stedefreund is celebrating their 5 th anniversary and re-opening in a new Mitte location with Space Release , a series of exhibitions that the group has scheduled until February next year. For Space Release #1, twelve Stedefreund artists deal with...read more
The story behind origins of the Cell63 art gallery is unique. Luisa Catucci worked in Italy as an illustrator and graphic designer before moving to Berlin seven years ago (when Berlin wasn’t as popular as it is today). She wanted to have an...read more
Revisited: glitter shiny and creepy weird moments of the holiday season. Merry Christmas! Christmas magic: More Merry than a free Blackberry. *No Art. Finally we get to enjoy the Art of Cooking, the Art of Drinking (good quality wines for a change...read more
mobile pics from the events we visited... TUESDAY Kann Architektur unpolitisch sein? @ n.b.k. THURSDAY 01.12 Extension Series 12 @Grimmuseum SATURDAY 03.12 Mary Ocher's 7" Release Party @ .HBC Sunday 04.12 Lecture: Lose aus der Vase by johnicon @...read more
After a previous experience at Kunstraum Kreuzlingen and a year of research compiling material, curators Daniela Petrini and Tanja Trampe have displayed seventeen different approaches around the topic luck and happiness in a second exhibition zum...read more
Two months ago I was pining for the NY Book Art Fair and wondering if I could scrape together enough money to visit NYC for the weekend. It didn’t happen, but fortunately, a book fair came to me in the form of Miss Read at KW. Although not as...read more
Dear diary, I'm already at the half way point of my internship… and because living in Berlin feels so normal I decided to go to Copenhagen for a weekend… Berlin is sooo boring and of course there is nothing that I've missed this weekend… no expos...read more
mobile pics from the events we visited... TUESDAY 22.11 Nobody, Who's On the Road @ Skalitzer140 Katrin Connan / Olve Sande FRIDAY 25.11 still not a performance/ the guy sleeping outside the Volksbühne pavillion while inside they are building up...read more
On the occasion of one of the most exciting re-openings of this season, I met director Anne Fäser and artist Kerstin Gottschalk from the collective that comprises the artist-run space Stedefreund . If there is something that can certainly define...read more
In the year and a half of its existence Bpigs might have admittedly stepped on a toe or two. Your responses, scold and enthusiasm have been a constant companion, helping us retrace our steps, or just move on. It seems like a good idea to publish a...read more
Christiane Grüß, born in Freiberg, studied theater and economics and worked as a nurse before founding 7hours. While working in the pathological museum in Berlin in the late 80s the relation of the display of anatomical specimens to art became...read more
We all know about Mrs. Cleaning Lady, who, once mistaking the high-priced conglomeration of contemporary fine arts on the gallery floor for rubbish, still makes life difficult for those who work without expansive frames, canvases, or white plinths...
Today we are having a music interlude in this section. This time I would like to introduce you to Chris Heenan and Christopher Williams, the curators behind Certain Sundays . Heenan (Washington D.C., 1969) and Williams (San Diego, 1981) first met...read more
mobile pics from the events we visited... THURSDAY 17.11 NO ONE HATES YOU @ Kreuzberg Pavillon with Marc Bijl, Johanna Ahlert, Heiko Pfreundt ONE NIGHT STAND @ Kim with Diego Fernandez FRIDAY 18.11 Anteriors @ L40 with Alessio Delli Castell, James...read more
Just a few days earlier than the Venice Biennale, Kreuzberg Pavillon first opened its doors in Liegnitzerstr., where Heiko's own atelier was initially meant to find a place. After one month and having realized how many people were observing from...read more
Giro d'Italia , a little article in the October issue of Monopol, made me really eager to pay a brief visit to the boot-shaped peninsula. A series of Povera Art exhibitions curated by Germano Celant seemed a very convincing reason to me to hop off...read more
What is immediately striking about the show, Surrogate at Galerie Axel Obiger is the tension between the two bodies of work presented. Granted both artists are concerned with exploring photography’s potential as a medium (and photography’s...read more
Dear Diary, A quote from Willem the Kooning on the front of the building of my school says, "You have to change to stay the same", quite inspiring for an art academy but not only for an art academy. Bpigs is growing… every week we get more and...read more
ERBE BY STEPHANIE HANNA @ Donau x Ganghofer She isn't new to Berlin or to the space, but she's new to Pigs. The exhibition space Donau x Ganghofer is offering you the exhibition 'Erbe' from Stephanie Hanna. With the possibility to only view from...read more
mobile pics from the events we visited... TUESDAY 8.11. Trisha Baga - sandwich pedestrian mysticism sandwich sonata @ Johann König Delaine Le Bas. @Kunstlerhaus Bethanien MONDAY 14.11 Mirjam Thomann@ 4D Mirjam Thomann@ 4D coming up 17.11read more
Before there was text there was the image, a subjective representation of the surrounding reality. The text itself seems to be more complex. It consists of many layers including the semantic, the information, and the visual layer. In everyday life...read more
Diego Castro and Eva May are preparing for the upcoming exhibition of Franziska Wildt’s work in their space Gitte Bohr: Galerie für Kunst und politisches Denken opening this Thursday, the 10 th of November at 7pm. They took some time out of their...read more
(the best live music so far... at Mauerpark ) Dear diary, Please forgive me for talking so much about drinks… but I think that happens to you when you're living in Berlin…. Thirsty Fridays My Friday night was a pub crawl of exhibition openings...read more
