Blog entries by Rachel Simkover
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by Rachel Simkover, 2 Sep 2012Michaela Meise, "Adieu St. Agnes" @St. Agnes Church, Lorenzo Sandoval "Ivy over Ivy" and BrokenToujours.eu @ Büro BDP, "In the mirror of myself" @Galerie Zink, Philipp Fürhofer "...und immer nur Spuren von möglichen Welten..." @ Verein zur Förderung von Kunst... -
by Rachel Simkover, 26 Aug 2012Letters from the Field @ Atelierhof Kreuzberg, NOT BY DEFAULT- post internet art @DAM, Wael Shawky @ KW, Alte Meister, Neue Geister @ Scotty Enterprises WEDNESDAY 22.08 Letters from the Field @ Atelierhof Kreuzberg THURSDAY 23.08 About face @ Momentum FRIDAY 24.08 Videoart at Midnight @... -
by Rachel Simkover, 20 Aug 2012Jonathan Richman @ Festsaal Kreuzberg, Timeless Beauty, 100 years of fashion photography @ C/O, "Petra" by Maryanne Amacher @ Hamburger Bahnhof MONDAY 13.08 Jonathan Richman @ Festsaal Kreuzberg THURSDAY 16.08 Open Studios @ Künstlerhaus Bethanien FRIDAY 17.08 Timeless... -
by Rachel Simkover, 13 Aug 2012Don’t get me wrong; I love to read. But when it’s sunny and warm outside I have a difficult time focusing on a block of text. Sadly summer weather doesn’t stop me from spending too much time looking at images on the internet, the result being tired eyes. The solution? Books with few words and mostly... -
by Rachel Simkover, 12 Aug 2012Lev Khesin @ Galerie im Rathaus Tempelhof, Stephanie Dost @ Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, new bar opposite Kingsize, Caleuche_Video VI XXX Noisekölln @ Raum, Frank Höhne @ Gestalten, Art Connect Berlin Anniversary Party THURSDAY 09.12 Lev Khesin @ Galerie im Rathaus Tempelhof Frank Hö... -
by Rachel Simkover, 5 Aug 2012Steven Warwick @ Kinderhook & Caracas, NYU Studio MA Thesis Show @ Grimmuseum, Steff Loewenbaum @ last show at DUVE before moving WEDNESDAY 01.08 Steven Warwick @ Kinderhook & Caracas NYU Studio MA Thesis Show @ Grimmuseum SATURDAY 03.08 last show at Duve in the Mitte location, and the... -
by Rachel Simkover, 23 Jul 2012Ensemble Zwischentöne Concert @ Hamburger Bahnhof, Platoon Opening, Partouse opening and Mandy's bar, Vicky Uslé - Woodshedding @ Alexander Levy, Limited Limitlessness @ LEAP THURSDAY 19.07 Ensemble Zwischentöne Concert @ Hamburger Bahnhof as much as we dislike the use of the word... -
by Rachel Simkover, 16 Jul 2012Miha Erman, "Room with no Echo" @ Galerie Kuchling, Body Controlled #4 @ LEAP, Workshop Xth Sense with Marco Donnarumma @ LEAP, Preview Bomb Gallery @ Galerie Axel Obiger, Rundgang 2012 @ UdK, Rundgang der Kunsthochschule Weißensee 2012 @ Oranienplatz 17, Pyoyectos Monclova - Asiataco @ Tanya Leighton... -
by Rachel Simkover, 8 Jul 2012Japanther @ Marie Antoinette, Paul McCarthy @ Neue Nationalgalerie, Cia Rinne & Anders Lauge Meldgaard Performance @ Grimmuseum, Robert Montgomery @ Tempelhof from the press release sent out yesterday : "Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of dOCUMENTA (13), welcomes the »occupy«... -
by Rachel Simkover, 5 Jul 2012After climbing the stairs to the top floor of an old industrial building, now Delloro Contemporary Art, one enters Wolfgang Stiller’s installation, Laboratory I, an installation that feels like a combination of the backstage office at the natural history museum and a turn of the 20th century laboratory. In the... -
by Rachel Simkover, 1 Jul 2012Berlin-Paris Gallery Exchange, Hilarion Manero Private View @ 7hours Haus 19, David Levine performance @ Tanya Leighton FRIDAY 29.06 Berlin-Paris Gallery Exchange: Alicja Kwade Studio Visit Berlin-Paris Gallery Exchange: Jordine Voigt Hilarion Manero Private View @ 7hours Haus 19 SATURDAY 30.06... -
by Rachel Simkover, 28 Jun 2012As Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pecuchet have shown us, trying to learn only from books and no experience only leads to one failure after another. Sometimes we need to take a closer look at the educational system and how knowledge is produced in order to move forward. When math class gets boring... -
by Rachel Simkover, 26 Jun 2012Cia Rinne believes that if you only speak one language you are limited in your thinking because you can only express things in one way. In her show, Sounds for Soloists, at Grimmuseum, Rinne showcases her ability to express herself through an impressive array of languages, including English, German, French, Swedish,... -
by Rachel Simkover, 24 Jun 2012Karla Black @ Schinkel Pavillion, Vadim Fishkin @ Galerija Gregor Rodnar, Harald Klingelhöller @ Konrad Fischer Galerie, Wolfgang Stiller, Laboratory I and Andreas Zingerle, Squeeze @ Delloro Contemporary Art, Cia Rinne, Sounds for Soloists @ Grimmuseum THURSDAY 21.06 Diane Arbus @ Martin Gropius Bau... -
by Rachel Simkover, 17 Jun 2012A Tale of Three Cities Berlin Bookswap @ Geist im Glas, Alfredo Jaar Opening Afterparty @ Prince Charles, Impress Me @ NGBK, Positioning Osmotic Impulses @ Former Neukölln Prison THURSDAY 14.06 Alfredo Jaar. The way it is @ Berlinische Galerie A Tale of Three Cities Berlin Bookswap @ Geist im... -
by Rachel Simkover, 10 Jun 2012Kassel: Real-Unreel screening with Francis Alys; Art Magazine party @Ekstase, professional preview Berlin: Films and Windows I @ Mathew Gallery, Hilaron Manero "2011" @ 7hours Haus 19, Sameheads/Purge/Ocvlto Party Kassel If the sound of the Art Cologne was the iphone ring tone, the sound of this... -
by Rachel Simkover, 3 Jun 2012Construction/ Building @ Galerie Open, The World is Not Fair: Die Grosse Welt Ausstellung @ Tempelhof Field, Picasso Grid @ Autocenter, The Future Archive @ n.b.k. "this bitch REALLY loves the camera" THURSDAY 31.05 Kanon 1-12, Henrik Vestergaard Friis- The best of Danish culture @Grimmuseum... -
by Rachel Simkover, 28 May 2012mobile pics from the events we visited WEDNESDAY 23.05 Turkish Art New and Superb @ Tanas THURSDAY 24.05 Haroon Mirza @ Schering Stiftung Slawomir Elsner @ Künstlerhaus Bethanien FRIDAY 25.05 Larry Clark @ C/O SATURDAY 26.05 Book Days @ C/O