berlin art week

berlin art week

2014

Pre-Interview: Martin Eder

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

Pre-Interview: Sinta Werner

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

2013

“Painting Forever!” Discussion panel with the curators and Michael Kunze – What about that?!

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

Berlin Art Week Gallery Shows Not to Miss

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
Pantone Emerald Paint

Intern's Diary #1: Pantone Forecast 2013

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
Figge von Rosen booth with Diana Sirianni

Abc-ircus

And action! First thing I did on the fair was a step back, fretting from the crazy whip lady, one of the many shows/actions to be set up and taken down in the course of 2 hours in the Upcoming Exhibitions section right by the entrance. Is she...read more

abc: First Impressions

art berlin contemporary’s sixth edition opens today at Station Berlin! Following the success of last year’s art fair format, galleries across the world were invited to demonstrate their ability as producers for artists at this year’s fair. With...read more

Tips 17.09 - 22.09

Berlin Art Week, ladies and gentlemen, is starting right about NOW! In the next few days time is the most precious currency - don't waste any of it - there is a lot not to be missed! Tune in our facebook and twitter pages for daily events tips and...read more

abc preview

In the sixth edition of abc art berlin contemporary, first-time director Maike Cruse presents over 130 galleries and 18 countries, with the three-day-long fair pushing each gallery and institution to demonstrate their abilities as producers for...read more

Bad Curating

Imagine you finally get invited to the Venice Biennale and you end up in this mess, in the upper left corner no less…. That is what I thought about Sgarbi’s (mostly) painting cluster Arte no est Cosa Nostra , which appalled the art world in the...read more

An Apéritif

So what has been going on? Berlin Art Week is getting ready for its second edition. It got bigger, better and if possible... Berlin_er! The 10 main institution partners, abc and Preview art fairs are now joined by ten temporary partners, chosen by...read more

2012

abc round table with Niche and Stil in Berlin

Rosa Barba (carlier gebauer) how many gallerists are needed to make something work? To be perfectly honest, I thought abc was kind of blah. Ok let me rephrase that. abc was fine, people liked it, quite a few LOVED IT (our editor Maria Santos for...read more

What Did I Miss Berlin Art Week Special

C/O, Ellen Gallagher talk @ Berlinische Galerie, Cyprien Gaillard @ Schinkel Pavillon, Boros Bunker re-opening, Simon Starling talk @ neugerriemschneider, Mike Nelson@neugerriemschneider (external), Goldrausch 2012@Kunstverein Tiergarten, BAL "...read more

abc: report from day #1

The long-awaited art berlin contemporary kicked off yesterday morning at Station-Berlin revealing itself as one of the most exciting events of the season. Featuring the newest positions in the contemporary art scene, this time under no subject and...read more

(my) Imaginary Collectors Buy List @abc 2012

If collecting is a virus- I think I got it: Acquire unique objects that will guide, inspire, comfort and maybe even bore and enrage you throughout your life. Objects you and you alone possess (and are possessed by). I get it. To enrich my...read more

Berlin Art Tuesday and Wednesday

I am looking at cranes. This is correct yes? Starting backwards- Cyprien Gaillard did it again to our city! abc sneak peeks - during installation David Adamo @Ibid Ignacio Uriarte @FiggevonRosen Jenni Tischler @Krobath Klemm Gallery Der Geist von...read more

How to speak PR/ Lesson #1: Negation

In the uncertainty of our ever shifting art times; where anybody could be somebody any minute (and nobody the next), nobody risks disappointing a conversation partner who might eventually outrank him, politeness is religion and negation does not...read more

Say a Little Prayer

St. Agnes church - Wed night Michaela Meise performed church songs that relate to her recent album Preis dem Todesüberwinder Berlin is apparently a teenager of 772 years old. I am not quite sure how old the art scene in Berlin is, but all...read more

Why I Like Tourists

The only other word that is pronounced with the same eye rolling, self explaining disgust and dot dot dots besides “Artists!...“ is without a doubt the word: “Tourists!...“ As we spend these last summer weeks in what resembles the mood in a...read more

2011

You Did Not Hear It From Me

The Godfather part III He is very big in Italy... Is he, ha.. I thought it was just a friend of John’s.. He is huge in Italy... Here in Berlin he is a nobody. That is what I love about berlin, you can be anybody anywhere, here we are all the same...read more

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