Diaries
What Did I Miss
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by bpigs team, 18 Feb 2013In 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 commentary is not intended to be a review of the show (since it is likely you... -
by bpigs team, 10 Feb 2013What 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 with the relationship between... -
by bpigs team, 3 Feb 2013With 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 lot of talks this week so there was a lot of sitting and theorizing; next... -
by Despina Stokou, 28 Jan 2013One of the things I will definitely miss about NY are the Lower East Side Sundays. The big galleries of Chelsea and midtown are closed on the day of the Lord (for obvious reasons), so the bigger and smaller names of art journalism (and we) are free to join the buzzing residents of Chinatown in a lovely afternoon art... -
by bpigs team, 27 Jan 2013This 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 fashion week being over. In case you didn't read last week's post... -
by Despina Stokou, 21 Jan 2013MISS or DISS We decided to spice up our weekly What Did I Miss post with a +/- system for you to gage whether or not you came up with the right answer to the all important winter question: "Is it worth leaving my warm bed to freeze my face off and see some art and people?" What we are reviewing here will be... -
by bpigs team, 20 Jan 2013Now 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 and a +/- system for you to gage whether or not you came up with... -
by Maria Santos, 23 Dec 2012WEDNESDAY 19.12 Bar Babette - Christmas Sale organized by Daniel Kingery ( 7 works were sold) dj Marc Bijl work by Cecile Evans (relatively) new arty restaurant - ( don't try this at home, if you are paying) NEW! Mescal tasting bar and Mexican design shop - on tor str 116 ; next to... -
by Maria Santos, 17 Dec 2012THURSDAY 13.12 KItty Kraus @ Galerie Neu Perspective @ G9 Galleria Nove Festive Neptune @ Alexanderplatz SATURDAY 15.12 Jan van Oost, "The Demon Love". With a music performance by Anne Müller @ Galerie Rolando Anselmi Sergio Ragalzi, "Madre_Oro... -
by Maria Santos, 10 Dec 2012THURSDAY 06.12 Blows to the temple @ Atelierhof Kreuzberg FRIDAY 07.12 Şakir Gökçebağ @ Tanas Hito Steyerl @ pro qm Edition 2012 @ Scotty Enterprises Adrian Buschmann @ EINE Galerie Christian Patterson @ Robert Morat SATURDAY 08.12... -
by Maria Santos, 3 Dec 2012FRIDAY 30.11 Max Beckmann Benefit Auction @ Villa Grisebach (1.000.000€ raised in no more than half an hour...) Bruce McLean, Time-based Painting @ Tanya Leighton Mise-en-Scène. Skulpturale Rhetorik @ Kwadrat Roses & videogames... @ The Boss Studio Party ... -
by Maria Santos, 18 Nov 2012TUESDAY 13.11 Japanther + Die Eternias @ Marie Antoinette THURSDAY 15.11 Liquid Archive @ Import Projects FRIDAY 16.11 Kitchen Talk @ Klemm's Katja Novitskova @ Kraupa-Tuskany Harun Farocki @ Galerie Barbara Weiss Landschaften | Landscapes Nachrichten zum Weltuntergang... -
by Despina Stokou, 12 Nov 2012Julia Sherman, THE DOCTOR AND THE SAILOR- part of the Recess performances @ Moma Over the duration of the evening, the artist and one live model stage Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon *********************** While Chelsea galleries are still fervently working on re-building, re-... -
by Maria Santos, 12 Nov 2012WEDNESDAY 07.11 Fokus Grupa @ Gitte Bohr - Club für Kunst und politisches Denken THURSDAY 08.11 Malerei der 80er Jahre / Nina Pohl @ Sprüth Magers Tacita Dean & Anna-Catharina Gebbers @ Zum Beispiel Berlin FRIDAY 09.11 Believers @ Kow Joel Sternfeld Retrospective @ c/o... -
by Maria Santos, 5 Nov 2012WEDNESDAY 31.10 Drop Dead 10th Anniversary Party @ Cube Club Symposium Fluid Cosmologies I @ Schering Stiftung SATURDAY 03.11 Zinefest Berlin @ SFE Marinella Senatore's parade @ Mitte Iris Touliatou @ Duve SUNDAY 04.11 Tacita Dean & Jérôme Bel @ HAU2 Ornament... -
by Despina Stokou, 29 Oct 2012This, dear Artist, is the Whitney Museum- pronounced We Tni. You will come to show here, when you grow up. During the openings you wait in line, then check your name at the girls with the ipad at the door. The space is candle lit, they have good music, bad wine, and delicious pop corn (and tortillia chips). You are... -
by Maria Santos, 28 Oct 2012THURSDAY 25.10 Oliver Möst @ Galerie Axel Obiger Hajnal Németh @ Invaliden1 Otolith Group and Falke Pisano @ District FRIDAY 26.10 My safe reduction to form @ Exile Antonia & Jens Nordmann @ Stedefreund Axel Lieber @ Hengesbach Gallery Jonathan Monk @ Meyer Riegger SATURDAY... -
by Despina Stokou, 22 Oct 2012A selection of shows you would have the chance to visit if you were in New York this weekend. Pictures are listed from: Lower East Side towards Chelsea, awesome to weird, and from normal to paranormal. LOWER EAST SIDE Andra Ursuta @ Ramiken Crucible Henrik Olesen @ Reena Spaulings this is...