L40

L40

2017

Tips 08.11 - 20.11

Warm up for colder days with a festival that brings the global South closer to the North, and try to keep up with the busy gallery hopping route throughout the next two weeks. Among many curiousity-provoking exhibitions to come, these are the ones...read more

Tips 28.02 - 13.02

Our tips are a wave goodbye to long and arduous winter, and a warm welcome to longer days packed with lovely events. Here is our selection for the first days of March, in which, among other things, you shouldn't miss to get your hands on our brand...read more

2016

Tips 23.11 - 05.12

In these troubled worrisome times, we recommend boosting your immune system with art and engaging ideas. No better place than Berlin to undergo this kind of therapy - here's where, when, and why. WEDNESDAY 23.11 19.30 Conversas Berlin #9 @...read more

Tips 14.07 - 25.07

There is no time to get lazy this month; exhibition openings, lectures, screenings, artist talks, pop-up art stores, and so many other occcasions to experience new things and meet new summer friends. Here is our must-shortlist for the following...read more

2015

Tips 02.12 - 14.12

In these times of uncontrollable shoppingholism, it is important to remember that there are some far more important things in life... To spend your money on. Such as art! Visit some nice galleries, meet some cool artists, do some math and see how...read more

Tips 17.06 - 27.06

Festival mode on: the annual celebration of all-things-Neukölln meets the first Berlin Food Art Week, while over a hundred films are being shown at Les Rencontres Internationales, and about two hundred art publications presented at Miss Read. All...read more

Tips 05.05 - 17.05

Gallery Weekend was once again an impressive yearly reminder of how powerful and colorful the Berlin art scene is. The main spectacle is over, but the shows go on - aside from all the exhibitions opened last weekend, there are lots of new things...read more

Tips 08.04 - 20.04

A recent study’s results suggest that looking at art might be just as salubrious as hitting the gym. Challenge accepted! Here is a two-week plan for burning off those excess holiday calories. WEDNESDAY 08.04 17.00 Assaf Gruber – "Citizen in the...read more

Tips 27.01 - 09.02

Berlin might have got 99 problems, but shortage of events is certainly not one. In the middle of CTM and transmediale, with Berlin Fashion Week behind us and Berlinale coming up, we could talk ages about what you should not miss, and what is...read more

2014

Tips 28.10 - 02.11

With or without Halloween, this is going to be a hell of a week. Accordingly, we decided to lure you in with some treats. Your part is to stalk us on Facebook in the next days, and do your creepiest to win tickets for two of the events listed...read more

Tips 08.10 - 11.10

When we say "do not miss this" - we mean it. This week our recommendations include very special last-chance and one-day events, therefore judge not, for this commonly misused phrase is the biggest truth you will hear from us. Do not miss. For real...read more

Tips 27.08 - 31.08

Instead of mourning the end of summer, put on another layer of clothes and celebrate the social life that is blooming around the many events in the coming days. We are not even talking about the super eventful September, but the last week of...read more

Tips 16.07 - 20.07

Temperatures are rising, but Berlin does not seem to slow down. Along with a thick list of art-related events, this week there are various summer-y festivals and celebrations that will make you feel like a tourist falling in love with Berlin all...read more

Tips 30.04 - 03.05

Particularly eventful and exciting days ahead require some good planning. Choose your events wisely to make the best of the jubilee edition of the Gallery Weekend (02. - 04.05), or keep it simple with our top ten recommendations for the week...read more

Tips 15.01 - 18.01

Athi-Patra Ruga (18.01 @ SAVVY Contemporary) This week Berlin is all about fashion, but the opening calender indicates that the force is almost as strong with art. Good luck to everyone who will try to coexist both in the art and the fashion world...read more

2013

Tips 11.12 - 14.12

Tomasz Kobialka (Wednesday 11.12 @ The Gym) Whether you are keen on celebrating the upcoming holidays or not at all, this week should not dissapoint. Christmas-crazy or Grinch-grumpy, the upcoming anniversaries and spiced-up openings should...read more

Tips 16.10 - 20.10

While being out of the city we might or might not have missed a lot, but we are happy to be back for a fun arty weekend. Halloween in Berlin already begins in a few days (or does it ever stop?), and if the suit makes a man, then this week you can...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 25.09 - 28.09

Last week's events weren't about seeing as many as possible like the week before, but they did keep some of the festive glow. From the posh L40 to the happy-go-geeky LEAP, each one was packed and full of positive energy. People were talkative and...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 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

Have you met... The Best of

In summer 2010 we started a blog feature highlighting the very different protagonists of the most current and independent projects of the Berlin art scene. Through a handful of interviews, we got to introduce to some of our Bpigs spaces as well as...read more

2012

Speed Portfolio III feedback

“It reminds me of school time, with the difference that we wrote the books that we are talking about.” One of the artists, the Italian guy, told me this when I asked him how it is going. (Davide from IOCOSE) The idea of the speed portfolio viewing...read more

What Did I Miss 13.02-19.02

mobile pics from the events we visited... WEDNESDAY 15.02.12 EDGED Pop-up store @ Auguststr 35, Exhibition by Paul Green Exhibition @ Galerie Gerken, Iman Rezai & Flavio Degen THURSDAY 16.02.12 Turkish Alphabet @ Museum Der Dinge Opening...read more

2011

Speed Portfolio Viewing II- The Feedback

The second Speed Portfolio Viewing took place last Sunday 25.09 in L40, kindly hosted by Verein zur Förderung von Kunst e.V. am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz. After the event we asked artists and curators for a short feedback. The pictures were taken with my...read more