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berlin galleries

2022

bold and emboldened

"Sometimes offensive", of course, does a lot of heavy lifting in the collective socioeconomic wet dreams of the rich Wunderkind. I consider König a peer, of sorts, from our Bar 3 days. I mean, I was a thirty-something foreigner…read more

2020

Our picks from Berlin_Views

Another beautiful, fresh initiative this week trying to navigate a brave new world of semi-isolation. Berlin galleries have joined forces to create BerlinViews, a website format present­ing over 25 galleries and gallery models. Initiated by Office...read more
Alles wird gut (Everything Will Be Alright), 2020 Simon Mullan

Alles Wird Gut

Berlin galleries are stirring up again from the self-imposed quarantine as the State is now allowing non-essential businesses with spaces smaller than 800-square-meters (8,600 square feet) to reopen starting Monday, April 20. Galleries and...read more

2013

Intern's Diary #2: WDIM Starbucks Edition

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

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

Gallery Weekend/ Editor's Cut

Unlike "director’s cut", this new series, which might or might not become a thing in Bpigs, will try to present readers with a shortened version of events: a dense mix of popular oppinion, marked usually with “I heard” and personal ones marked,...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 22.04-27.04

What a week! The massive Gallery Week roster ensured that there was plenty of good, definitely some bad, and always some ugly. Hopefully our survival guide and sneak peak helped you make some well-informed decisions about how to divide your time,...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 18.04-20.04

With the overwhelming events and openings for Gallery Weekend on the horizon, this week’s warm up may not have taken us to a large quantity of places, but we sure got around geographically. From an exclusive tour in Wedding, to openings in...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 08.04-14.04

This was a great week in Berlin, and I don’t think any explanation of why is necessary. While en route to EIGEN + ART on Thursday, I noticed that there were a lot of attractive people around, and I wondered where they all came from. I realized...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 18.03-23.03

This week the Former West conference brought some of our favorite theory all-stars to the Haus that soon became a second home. The unacceptable weather made us more inclined to sitting and listening than moving from gallery to gallery but no...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 14.03-17.03

This week has certainly set one record of something I don’t usually have the fortune of tallying up, and that is food served at almost every event! Our stomachs were happy at the buffet table with a vast variety of choices mirroring the variety of...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 01.03-03.03

So March is here, spring is coming, the Berghain queue is already almost as long as it is in summer, but apparently people (ok, us included to an extent…) are still a bit lazy when it comes to going to art events. Speaking of Berghain, there’s a...read more

What Did I Miss/What Did I Not Miss 12.02-16.02

In case you are new here, let us keep you updated on the changes that have been made to our WDIM series. Now instead of only showing you pictures of the Berlin events we visited this last week, we are providing you with commentary too. The...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 04.02-09.02

What happened this week? Well James Franco graced Berlin with his presence, and we saw quite a bit of work that was “haha” funny...so where does it fall on our Miss/Diss scale? Monday 04.02 Dream Factory @ Import Projects video screening dealing...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 29.01-03.02

With transmediale in the mix this week, seeing everything there was to see would be an exhausting and impossible full time job. So everyone missed something, including us; we can just hope that we made the best decisions. We ended up going to a...read more

What Did I Miss/What Did I Not Miss 22.01-27.01

This week it was especially hard to leave home and go see things, but it was usually worth the effort. So if you stayed at home this week, chances were you did miss something, have a look. There were also some impressive winter outfits despite...read more

What Did I Miss/What Did I Not Miss 15.01-19.01

Now that Berlin’s art establishments have woken up from the holiday sleep, we would like to welcome you to the new and improved Bigs WDIM! This weekly update now contains not only pictures from the events we visited this last week but commentary...read more

2012

abc Final Report

Fall has always been my favourite season with a reason, and this past week has only confirmed that. We had Boros' refurbishing, Johann König's festive secularization of St. Agnes, Preview, plenty of Berlin galleries proudly presenting their new...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

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

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