Diaries
Artist Contributions
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by bpigs team, 1 Apr 2014In the role of the Berlin Social Media Ambassador for the Future Generation Art Prize, Bpigs is streaming live from Berlin, promoting our beautiful city, its project spaces and young and emerging artists. This is an opportunity for you, young artist, to present your artwork to a wide international audience. Next week... -
by Anonymous (not verified), 26 Feb 2014Have something to share? As Bpigs has recently relaunched the website, we’re looking for new artist contributions. Following our focus, submissions should be drawings and they should comment on the art scene. Previous artist contributions to Bpigs have included works by Martin Skauen and Witte Wartena....
Editor's Notes
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by bpigs team, 15 Jan 2026What did I miss? It has been my belief ( and I know I am not alone in this!) that when Bernie got ousted from the primaries on March 1st, 2020, we... -
by bpigs team, 8 Oct 2025We lost a(nother) gallery client last week. Helga, not her real name, didn't like “the mixture of art and political topics” on our platform. I think she didn't mind the Ukraine stuff, just, you know…the Arabs. My students in Vienna used to get furious when I brought up the art market, pricing, and career prospects.... -
by Despina Stokou, 21 Aug 2025Of course, OF COURSE they are letting POC women lead the way out of the cultural rabbit hole; the political and moral wasteland that is Germany right now, and curate a diverse show that will ruffle zero centrist feathers, walk the line on the IHRA code of conduct*, and ultimately stay mute on Palestine. Premature?... -
by bpigs team, 14 Jan 2025I am a reluctant Happy New Year wisher but goddammit this year I was gonna do it. Except I didn't have time. The balloons from our NYE party are still on the floor. The flowers my friends brought are still in the vase. But their home is gone. Is this the first natural disaster of my life? my 8-year-old asks me.... -
by bpigs team, 6 Sep 2022I consider König a peer, of sorts, from our Bar 3 days. I mean, I was a thirty-something foreigner starting up a career and a business in Berlin with 35euro memberships, and he was a same-aged, you know, yada yada rich bitch. I find his later development baffling and ultimately disappointing ( and I am talking... -
by Despina Stokou, 28 Jul 2022Why dont we want our rich people to fail? Let's talk about it. I am summarizing (and commenting) this NYT article which you can have free access to here. Julia Stoschek’s great-grandfather, the German industrialist Max Brose, was a member of the Nazi Party. During World War II, his automotive company... -
by Despina Stokou, 19 Apr 2022Anyone who is anyone will be in Venice this year, because it has been two years god dammit and we are all gonna die soon. But not everyone can speak Italian. We are here to help, capturing the Zeitgeist and having our Italian co workers translate it for you. And, yes take some rain boots with you. The place is sinking... -
by Despina Stokou, 14 Apr 2022And here I thought we should be discussing a transition from the feudal, redundant snooze fest of state funding that procures the so-called National Pavillions every two years at the otherwise lovely Bienalle Jardini. But no, let's bring the cultural discourse back a few decades and discuss the role of culture in... -
by bpigs team, 5 Oct 2021On the occasion of another friend getting screwed over by their gallery at the tender age of We Should Know Better, here is a long overdue post on walking that thin, thin line between social niceties, handshake deals, and well, labor law. First of all, and I have said it before, consider NOT having a permanent... -
by bpigs team, 20 Jan 2021I was minding my own business one post-2020 afternoon (yesterday) when scrolling through the ad-lgorythm that is Instagram these days; I happened upon the latest Berlin art venture: the Clubhouse. An experience so exclusive it might as well not exist. It is an app. But sound only. Also; Invite only—only two invites... -
by bpigs team, 17 Dec 2020As this year, the year that will from now on be referred to as THAT year comes to an end, I couldn't help but wonder… what does it all mean. Do global pandemics need to happen for a reason? No. But happened it did, and I am curious if we, we the Royal We of the Art world, have become better or... -
by Despina Stokou, 15 Jul 2020I think this is an excellent moment to start over in the art scene: Educate collectors, gallerists, art lovers, even artists. Any reform in the art world and one is now sorely needed, should start in the ways we talk and write about Art. Starting from what seems like the gotcha question: Is Art essential to society?... -
by bpigs team, 28 May 2020Art is always lonely. It is lonely in its conception because you need to quiet the voices in your head. It is lonely in its process because you left it too long, and now you have to finish the damn show. It is lonely in its social context because it is ( ideally) always new, always awkward, always kind of an outlier.... -
by bpigs team, 14 Apr 2020pic by Clemens Wilhelm in Berlin Neukölln I miss FOMO. I miss opting out. I miss lipstick. Not on me, on you. I miss Aperols and Margaritas and impromptu picnics on the grass and babies running around and touching stuff. Dirty Fingernails. Licking chocolate off the floor. Not me, the kids. I miss talking... -
by bpigs team, 5 Mar 2019LADIES. What are we fighting for here? Best of Gender? Because you are not gonna grow a dick however many sisters you throw under the bus... In the summer of 2016 an androgynous version of Hillary Bonham Clinton was poised to become the first female president in the US in what turned out to be a Before and After... -
by Despina Stokou, 29 Oct 2018The day before my recent opening in New York titled "White Lies", I received an email from a collector I know and like in Los Angeles reacting to the press release. I don't wish to publicize a private conversation, but I do think it is interesting to expand on the public debate it touches upon. In her...