Peres Projects

Peres Projects

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

2016

Tips 31.05 - 13.06

Event lists are growing longer, and we wouldn't be talking about Berlin if it was only open-air parties coming up. One very special event, which will take over various venues across the city is the 9th edition of the Berlin Biennale. While the...read more

What Did I (Not) Miss: Gallery Weekend Berlin 2016

Bpigs team was out and about attempting to capture as much of the Gallery Weekend magic as possible. Take a virtual stroll through our snaps from the last week's events.

Tips 10.02 - 22.02

Music folks from abroad just left the city and film lovers are already taking their airbnb-ed spots to celebrate the art of the moving image. Besides the most obvious tip for the upcoming week, which is of course Berlinale (and the other, less...read more

2015

Tips 29.12 - 11.01

Berlin waves goodbye to 2015 in high fashion, and welcomes 2016 with a few great art shows. Take advantage of that little extra enthusiasm that comes with the new year & start crossing them all off the list. WEDNESDAY 30.12 19.00 3AM @...read more

Pre-interview: Marinella Senatore

While simultaneously participating at the Lyon Biennale and getting ready for the Berlin Art Week, Marinella Senatore reached back to us and shared some thoughts on her upcoming solo show “Scenografia” at Peres Projects, and the related...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 21.04 - 05.05

This year the 1st of May is more than just an excuse to get wasted in public at midday; it is also the Berlin art scene's favorite holiday – the Gallery Weekend – and the first day of the last Month of Performance Art. Try to stay moderate and...read more

Tips 10.03 - 23.03

Is everybody done with hibernation? Press refresh and hop into the new season of seeing and being seen. The next two weeks of simultaneous exhibition openings look fairly competitive; some hard choices will have to be made! THURSDAY 12.03 19.00...read more

Tips 13.01 - 28.01

"Fitter, happier, more productive"... Thom Yorke of The Radiohead got the January spirit right. As soon as the holiday leftovers and hangovers are gone, the all-too-familiar new year's resolutions begin. Be one step ahead of your own...read more

2014

Tips 18.11 - 01.12

Drama Drama Drama! The Team is grieving and California dreamin', for Despina is leaving Berlin for a sunnier place. All the luck to you, Queen D! While the alpha and omega of Bpigs is conquering LA, we will keep ourselves busy and distracted with...read more

What Did I (Not) Miss: Berlin Art Week, Part 1

Berlin Art Week is stirring up the spirits once again with six days of events all around the city. Confusion and excitement, the crowds and the queues, free drinks, gossips, wacky outfits and cool shows. Here's what we did not miss so far; Part 1.

Tips 25.06 - 29.06

This week Neukölln is awake for 48 hours straight for the annual celebration of its creative people and places. If you prefer some variety in the program rather than sticking to one district, there are still many spaces around the city where you...read more

First Impressions: A Newcomer's take on Gallery Weekend

I had heard about Berlin’s Gallery Weekend through my art classes pretty early on in my trip, and had collected multiple gold-foiled advertisements I had seen lying on the desks of galleries, so I was always aware that it would be something I...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

Pre-interview: Steffen Bunte

Faced with a too-big apartment for the two of them, Hannes Schroeder-Finckh of Sprueth Magers and NickKoenigsknecht of Peres Project did what came naturally: turned it into an art space. The result is Open Forum (formerly, the eponymous KSF...read more
 David Ostrowski F (A thing is a thing in a whole which it's not), 2013

How to Fuck Things Up 2

So we are through Armory, Frieze NY and Basel Hong Kong in one week, and at least one Biennal, more mature, more self assured and some of us even more prosperous. This is the second part of the how to fuck things up , a series of realistic,...read more

2013

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 21.11 - 23.11

Last week we went to see some interesting art and we saw much more than that. Everything blended well - people complemented artworks in the way they dressed, posed or or moved around. Rocker to rocker, raver to raver, hipster to Peres Projects,...read more

Tips 20.11 - 23.11

Christoph Schirmer (Friday 22.11 @ Galerie Hunchentoot) A tips list that starts and finishes with a festival indicates a great week ahead! Whether you are more into visual art, literature or music, or prefer it all mixed in one, there is an event...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 20.09 - 22.09

Aufwiedersehen Berlin Art Week, see you next year! Slightly exhausted and highly inspired, we look back on all of the places we visited and (dis)liked (read the first two diaries of our pilgrimage through the art venues of Berlin here & here...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 27.06 - 30.06

THURSDAY 27.06 Nicolás Robbio - Every Body Knows @ invaliden1 A simple, lovely and subtly humorous show. Or at least I saw it that way, while it actually cites some paragraph on ancient Greeks, Newton, the universe, quantum physics... (A)...read more

Gallery Weekend sneak peek

What a weird, beautiful, overwhelming day. Attending the Gallery Weekend preview for the press definitely gave me some material to discuss and/or brag about. Since I wasn't familiar with this kind of event (fresh Berlin transplant!), they already...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

2012

One of Ours Review

The figure of Javier Perés doesn’t need to be introduced to those who know Berlin’s art scene. The founder of already almost legendary “Peres Projects”, which currently has two locations in Berlin (previously also in Los Angeles and Athens), and...read more

What Did I Miss 09-16.01

mobile pics from the events we visited last week... TUESDAY 10.01 Out of the Black with Regina de Miguel, Sam Smith, Kim Westerström @REH Kunst THUSRDAY 12.01 Martin Boyce @ Daimler Contemporary FRIDAY 13.01 KW Institut - Kunst Lotterie (Olafur...read more