Diaries
What Did I Miss
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by Maria Santos, 15 Nov 2011Giro d'Italia, a little article in the October issue of Monopol, made me really eager to pay a brief visit to the boot-shaped peninsula. A series of Povera Art exhibitions curated by Germano Celant seemed a very convincing reason to me to hop off on the Lombardy and take a ride to the Piedmont for the occasion.... -
by Despina Stokou, 15 Nov 2011mobile pics from the events we visited... TUESDAY 8.11. Trisha Baga - sandwich pedestrian mysticism sandwich sonata @ Johann König Delaine Le Bas. @Kunstlerhaus Bethanien MONDAY 14.11 Mirjam Thomann@ 4D Mirjam Thomann@ 4D coming up 17.11
Interviews
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by bpigs team, 23 Sep 2023Camp Space is a pop-up art gallery and cultural hub driven by the vision of its owner and curator, Tayla Camp. Camp landed in the Berlin art scene via a career in fashion, museum marketing in London, and an art tech start-up in New York. She has wanted to pursue a curatorial career since her Master's in Museum studies... -
by Adela Lovric, 21 Sep 2018The work of Finnish artist Aurora Reinhard is built upon different observations and theories on gender and sexuality. When asked why she keeps exploring these topics, Aurora sincerely answers – „It is not my decision“. Although contradictory at first, the answer makes sense when looking at her oeuvre. For... -
by Adela Lovric, 17 Sep 2018While anticipating the Berlin Art Week and its many interrelated exhibitions and events, we reached out to the Rotterdam-based artist Evelyn Taocheng Wang (born 1981 in Chengdu, China) to talk about her upcoming show titled "What is he afraid of?“ at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. The exhibition, curated by... -
by Sarie Nijboer, 14 Jun 2018The name LAGE EGAL has become well known within the Berlin art scene. Over the past 8 years, artist-curator Pierre Granoux has been developing many curatorial projects, aiming to offer a space for production and wider visibility to artists. We spoke to Granoux about his program, his fascination for word play (the word... -
by Julianne Cordray, 31 May 2018We met with District Berlin's current studio grant holder, Karina Griffith, whose practice comprises film and installation, often in tandem, as well as curatorial projects and organizing talks, conferences and events within the frame of her current research on Black authorship in German cinema. A field of... -
by Julianne Cordray, 27 Apr 2018Initiated in 2015, the large-scale group exhibition organized by artists Jonas Burgert, John Isaacs, Christian Achenbach, Zhivago Duncan, Andrej Golder, Andreas Mühe and David Nicholson under the name of Artist Weekend, is taking place for the second time over this year’s Gallery Weekend. NGORONGORO II opened... -
by Julianne Cordray, 19 Apr 2018Gallery Weekend brings a densely packed schedule of exhibition openings and events to Berlin each year. It’s a time when bustling crowds flood Potsdamer Strasse and the like, weaving in and out of the many spaces that open their doors with new exhibitions, performances, events and parties. It’s a lot of ground to... -
by Adela Lovric, 22 Mar 2018In her multimedia work, the Berlin-born artist Yvon Chabrowski deals with the visual formulas of contemporary media, which she decontextualizes to uncover its mechanisms and manipulation strategies. Her sculptural video installations and performances are at the centre of her practice. For her current series of works,... -
by Julianne Cordray, 17 Mar 2018We had the opportunity to meet with Dorothée Nilsson, who opened her space on the gallery-lined Potsdamer Straβe last fall. Arriving at the gallery, its storefront window wrapping around two sides – offering a panoramic view of the bustling street – she first walked us through the current... -
by Adela Lovric, 15 Mar 2018Zilberman Gallery's presence is hardly news to anyone—the Berlin branch of the originally Istanbul-based gallery was warmly welcomed almost two years ago, and has since established itself as an exciting hub for young contemporary art. The gallery's twofold aim – to promote contemporary artists from Turkey... -
by Sarie Nijboer, 12 Mar 2018Her experiences in the art world, as well as an interest in supporting fellow curators, artists, and art administrators has brought Berlin-based Turkish curator Ece Pazarbaşı to start the Berlin Art Grant Clinic. It is a clinic specialised in giving you knowledge on how to write a good application, but also teaching... -
by bpigs team, 2 Mar 2018The Polish artist Malwina Niespodziewana recently exhibited her latest series Comic Gold Haribo at Maniere Noire in Berlin. In the 30 drawings, the artist explores scenes drawn from her work, her family and her surroundings, while at the same time addressing universal themes. The apparently minimalist layout of her... -
by Adela Lovric, 21 Feb 2018With the newly commissioned curators Lena Johanna Reisner and Sylvia Sadzinski, Galerie im Turm takes on a new direction. Their two-year curatorial mandate kicked off earlier this month with “Third Lung”, a solo exhibition of the Guatemalan artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa. The show resonates... -
by Sarie Nijboer, 24 Jan 2018What started with a reenactment of a WOI battlefield in Cameroon between Germany and France has now developed into an ongoing project that alludes to several important topics, such as the effects of postcolonialism on identity, economics, politics and more. Documentation of the project Mimicry Games by Ghanaian-... -
by Julianne Cordray, 30 Nov 2017In anticipation of NOME Gallery's group exhibition, Evidentiary Realism, we spoke with curator Paolo Cirio about his development of the concept, the aesthetics of presenting and revealing evidence, and his own investigatory process of putting together an exhibition of investigative art practice. When... -
by Adela Lovric, 23 Nov 2017Three buses are towering vertically into today's bright blue sky over the 18th of March Square in the historical center of Berlin. Even from afar, you can already see "Monument“, the disputed installation by the 32-year-old German-Syrian artist Manaf Halbouni, through the pillars of the Brandenburg Gate...