Blog entries by Despina Stokou
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by Despina Stokou, 19 Oct 2011Never- Ever send an angry mail..not even from your iphone. Can only translate the punchline -- conclusion of an email "dispute" between an applicant for an internship job at Flash Art Magazine in Italy and Giancarlo Politi- director. A girl from London adressed the issue of the unpaid (8-9months long... -
by Despina Stokou, 12 Oct 2011We seem to be moving towards winter backwards in the calendar and Berliners always react unexpectedly to extended sunshine. First the article of Kai Müller in Tagesspiegel informing extensively about how the so called Seven (powerful galleries) rule the scene in Berlin, then this email on Saturday from... -
by Despina Stokou, 19 Sep 2011The Godfather part III He is very big in Italy... Is he, ha.. I thought it was just a friend of John’s.. He is huge in Italy... Here in Berlin he is a nobody. That is what I love about berlin, you can be anybody anywhere, here we are all the same. Yeah I don’t know about that... I am big in... -
by Despina Stokou, 15 Sep 2011You probably have met Enrico Centonze, director of Grimmuseum, and you almost certainly have met me...but have you met the rest of the team? WHO: Marcel Türkowsky & Francesco Cavaliere WHAT: Curators of the sound art program WHISTLE MINOTAURE! In its 9th edition, WHISTLE... -
by Despina Stokou, 17 Aug 2011I think it is ok if I just go ahead and say it: Saying you are an artist (in Berlin) is kind of the equivalent of saying you are Greek right now. Try it out. The minute your conversation with somebody at an opening gets interesting tell them “I am an artist you know”. (The reaction will also be similar if... -
by Despina Stokou, 10 Aug 2011Perla Montelongo and Ignacio Garcia from Node Center for Curatorial Studies (Image courtesy of Laura Gianetti) Artists teaching Curators? Perla Montelongo (Mexico, 1980) and Ignacio García Gómez del Valle (Spain,1978), founding members and directors of Node, both initially... -
by Despina Stokou, 13 Jul 2011The other project space- VeneKlasenWerner I have been hearing the name VenerklaseWerner whispered around Berlin in awe for quite some time now, mostly in relation to some amazing after party or exclusive dinner, as things go in the arts. The whispers were so loud in fact that it actually took me some time to decipher... -
by Despina Stokou, 6 Jul 2011from my article on http://www.berlinartlink.com/2011/06/23/spritz-kitsch-and-whiskey-sour/ LIST OF SMS EXCHANGED DURING THE OPENING DAYS OF THE VENICE BIENNALE Interview magazine party is scula grande, sestiere di san polo 2454. Text me if you hear of cyp party Gotta run. Orlan is at iceland Eating dinner... -
by Despina Stokou, 29 Jun 2011Last week @ frieze d/e discussion about Leben in der Blase (living in the bubble) in Monbijou Park as part of based in berlin- about the growing (and growingly indifferent) expatriate scene in Berlin, I ran into Santiago Taccetti, Argentinian artist living in Berlin a few monrths now, who reads bpigs tips... -
by Despina Stokou, 27 Jun 2011Berlin Tor str -01.06 “Dont know where to hang you my darling 150x400cm mixed media and oil on canvas. In order to unlock contact...“ -
by Despina Stokou, 4 May 2011According to a poster I saw on the street there were three Turner Prize winners having a solo show opening this gallery weekend: the coo-coo lady in Bortolozzi, the painting genius in Johnen and one more who now escapes me. It also escapes me who got nominated GW King and King in Autocenter (I am guessing...
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