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!

2024

Miss Read 2024

applications are now open  Applications for this year's Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival are now open! You can apply here . We are looking for exhibitors with an ongoing publishing practice (around five publications). As we continue…read more

BPKF welcomes its 2024/25 fellows

Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung announced its 2024/25 fellows Bini Adamczak, Murat Adash, Jessica Ekomane, Daniel Falb, Holly Herndon, Anton Kats, Dan Lie, Henrike Naumann, İz Öztat, Marta Popivoda, Anta Helena Recke, Konstanze…read more

Tips This Week

THIS WEEK Thu, 23 Nov 18h at BBA Gallery BBA Photography Prize 2023 - Shortlist Groupshow - Add to my map with Eric Bachmann , Sam Barker , Patty Carroll , Jo Ann Chaus , Diana Cheren Nygren , Rene Dissel , Emme Divi, Renata Dutrée…read more

2023

This Week in banned words and freedom of speech violations

Germans authorities have now banned the usage of the word Gen*cide. Is this a trademark issue? Dark… I know. Things have been getting pretty bleak, pretty damn fast. During last week's We Still Really Really Need To Talk protest (…read more

Tips This Week

While the art world reached peak navel gazing last week, I think many of you will join my inner, high-pitched voice in asking WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING IN GERMANY? WTF is happening with (our) Germany? I have always respected Germany's…read more

Oyoun's statement on Israel Palestine and free speech

Amplifying @oyounberlin statement in regards to Berlin's Senat current "recommendation to limit politically charged topics". One of the most thoughtful and well written statements we have read this past week on the current iteration…read more

#paymemotto

Independent publishers go public with their stories about Motto Berlin (again) Let me preface this with the core value that I disagree with: public takedowns, shame campaigns, and the often thoughtless, unnuanced nature of cancel culture.…read more

impressions on MISS READ 2023

Written by Jae Kyung Kim (einBuch.haus) Last week, the Berlin Art Book Festival & Fair, MISS READ, was held at the House of World Cultures (HKW). There were 340 exhibitors from 55 countries in attendance. Despite the simultaneous…read more

Have you Met...Tayla Camp

Tayla talked to us about her new pop-up project in Berlin Brunnenstr and the challenges, internal and logistical, she had to overcome to face her dreams.  Camp Space is a pop-up art gallery and cultural hub driven by the vision…read more
  Image: Dani ReStack, Show & Tell in the Land of Milk & Honey, 2007 (film still)

Tips this Week

Miss Read in collaboration with lumburg pre-fair program at MISS READ SPACE in Wedding, Buchstabensalat alternative book fair @wirwir, Outdoor Film Screenings at Oyoun, an immersive infrasonic concert installation…read more

Tips Berlin Art Week

This is not a week, it is a marathon. You know the rules: hydrate well, wear comfortable shoes and concentrate on the pop up events and , yes, well, sceeny openings. You can visit the exhibitions in the month to come. And, yes, we do…read more
Anan Fries, Posthuman Wombs, 2023, still, VR KUNSTPREIS 2023, ©. Anan Fries

Tips this Week

New pop-up gallery Camp Space opening! Jonathan Monk at einbuch.haus, Prater Digital presents Tracing the Geometry of Cyberwar, UNLEASHED UTOPIAS- Artistic Speculations about Today and Tomorrow in the Metaverse (VR…read more

Tips this Week

and a Super Blue Moon “Supermoon” is a term, or more specifically, a branding, of relatively recent origin. It originated not from astronomy but astrology; first coined by an astrologer, who arbitrarily defined it as "a full moon…read more
 Coffee notes by @biscuitarchive 

Tips this Week

August is the new September. Let' the Berlin Art Week pre- gaming begin! If you want to list a show with us, email us the details until August 15th. We accept entries for project spaces, artists, galleries and institutions. All content…read more
Caption: Elisa Strinna, Third Nature; Electrical Symbiosis; Cables and Sea Anemone, 2021, photo: Elisa Strinna - @Galerie im Turm

Tips this Week

We need a Beach Day, yes we do. Bpigs is now accepting event listings for our Berlin Art Week issue in September. Email info@bpigs.com for prices and availability. Deadline is August 15th. pic by Willem de Haan THIS WEEK Wed, 19 Jul…read more
Shira Wachsmann: The Moment Before- as part of the exhibition series Speaking to Ancestors, curated by Pauline Doutreluingne & Keumhwa Kim

Tips this Week

Shira Wachsmann: The Moment Before , world not my oyster in Acud, Oliver Thie: Schwarzraum / Gelbzeit at Showroom Galerie Nothelfer, Workshop Decolonizing Sexual Health at Galerie im Turm, Material: The Stuff Our…read more
Other people’s clothing  with: Kévin Desbouis, Pati Hill, Charlotte HouetteI curated by: Fiona Vilmer (Les Bains-Douches) und gr_und Exhibition, Live Music (Cesar Palace), Publication (Suckcess 2)

Tips This Week

Book Nomad Art Book Fair @einbuchhaus, Matters of Flux FLINTA festival @Art Laboratory, workshop | between identities from roots to wisdom @oyoun, Other people’s clothing and Sonntag Berlin as Project space highlights, Artist…read more

Tips This Week

Happy Pride, kids! Long weekend who? There are more events on June 9th than all the month combined. Let us look at some highlights. THIS WEEK Thu, 8 Jun 19h at Haus am Lützowplatz opening WHO BY FIRE: On Israel With works by Durar…read more

Tips This Week

SAVE THE DATE: Thu, 29 June, the 2nd edition of THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL THE FUTURE IS AFRICA , a project of the Opera Village Africa, opens in Berlin with artistic contributions from the African continent and the African…read more
The Museum is closed to separate the Art from the Artist. Thank you for your understanding. Berlinische Galerie. An artistic intervention by @cem_____a  I   Photography by @victoriatomaschko

Tips This Week

The participants of the upcoming Project Space Festival 2023 have been announced! Throughout June, 30 project spaces across Berlin will present a one-day program: 01.06. @culturalworkers_studio / 02.06. @sangt.hipolyt & @zyrland_zoiropa…read more
Yalda Afsah: Curro at Between Bridges Residency Space

Tips This Week

 A l'arme Festival pre-sale starts! International festival for avant-garde jazz, vibrant experimental music since 2012. Get your early bird deal May 3rd at midnight. An event by Louis Rastig and Karina Mertin/ABOUTNOW. In cooperation…read more
Tashi Brauen, Untitled (Horizon 11), 2023, Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 cm. 19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.

TIPS THIS GALLERY WEEK(END)

Deep breaths, good shoes, hydrate! Here is a list of cool stuff to visit on and off the beaten path. For the purposes of this list we concentrated on one time events, 2-3 day pop ups and openings that get the good good crowds. Wednesday…read more
Image © Andrej Dúbravský, Courtesy DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin, Photo, Dorota Jedinakova

Gallery Weekend Berlin

Let's make some noise! List your pop-ups, open studios, group, and solo shows now.  We now accept project spaces, galleries, institutions, and individual artist listings. Here are a few tips. Plan and list your event at least…read more

Tips this Week

Wednesday February 15th – HIDDEN GEMS at Dorothée Nilsson Gallery The exhibition will evolve and from Wednesday, 15th of February onwards will include works by Gerry Johansson, Julia Peirone, Lisa Röing Baer, Stefanie Schweiger,…read more
SCREENING: GRBAVICA, LAND OF MY DREAMS 

Tips This Week

Friday February 3, 18-20h opening of Rehearsal for Redemption , @wannsee_contemporary with @yaelbartana with artistic advice by @shelleyharten . With the exhibition 'Rehearsal for Redemption', Yael Bartana enters into a conversation…read more

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