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When you live in Berlin, you cannot even recover from an amazing weekend before the next one arrives. This weekend, Fête de la Musique will treat us with free concerts, while the galleries will be awesome as ever and host free events from...read more
Plan your week well! It seems like everything is going on at once, including the much anticipated Berlin Art Prize. Besides the openings, closings, and corresponding parties, this week we have some great concert tips for you. WEDNESDAY 11.06 19.00...read more
If you are not familiar with Arne Schreiber and his work, and you are trying to find out something about the artist by googling his name, all you will see are stripes in many variations - a basic, but overpowering element of his oeuvre. No wonder...read more
Summer arrives decidedly this week, just in time for the upcoming birthdays and festivities, as if we did not have enough of those in May. This week we raise our glasses for the 40-year-old Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and with no less enthusiasm, for...read more
It's been a week since I visited the "David Bowie" exhibition at Martin Gropius Bau and I'm still mumbling refrains from "Starman", "Space Oddity", "Man Who Sold the World"... My flatmate warns gently me about it, commenting how I must have been...read more
This week should feel like heaven for the art lovers, and not only for the tourists not used to Berlin's dynamic. Luckily, most of us are free of work on Thursday, so we can relax and celebrate Biennale, Tempelhof, sunny weather, our editor's...read more
All hail to the wonders of technology! You will hardly ever hear that from me, but I do admit if something leaves me thinking: why did nobody come up with this before? How did we manage to live without this for so long? Let me introduce you to one...read more
Much like the weather forecast, our list of events for this week is a bit different than usual, and slightly unpredictable towards the end of the week. There are opportunities to indulge in various art and party forms, as well as to show your best...read more
Berlin's regular partygoers probably know Markus Manowski as Daze Maxim, the Berlin-based musician, producer, and performer in the field of electronic music. You can often see this name on the pages of Resident Advisor, in the line-ups of various...read more
Nevermind the art fair giants of New York and Hong Kong; here is what you should not miss this week in Berlin. THURSDAY 15.05 19.00 Anonymous Drawings #3 WHY: The project presents 300 drawings by Berlin-based artist, collected through an open call...read more
The huge Gallery Weekend fuss is (finally) over; some are already nostalgic, others relieved. It still does not mean that all of the galleries in Berlin took a break. On the contrary: there are still places to go, things to see, people to meet!...read more
I had heard about Berlin’s Gallery Weekend through my art classes pretty early on in my trip, and had collected multiple gold-foiled advertisements I had seen lying on the desks of galleries, so I was always aware that it would be something I...read more
On Friday May 2nd, KIK opened its second show, “An die Freunde”, curated by Anna Erickson. We met with the creators to discuss the KIK 2 project and a lively conversation ensued, covering everything from the difficulties brought on by stiletto...read more
Complete with installation, wall painting, sculpture, and even performance, Christopher Kline’s show O.K. takes a multimedia look at the history and culture of his hometown Kinderhook, New York. Kinderhook is rich with folklore and cultural...read more
Gallery Weekend just turned ten! I won't hide the excitement and enormous expectations I had at the yesterday's press converence and the gallery tour. The organisation (this year with Maike Cruse in charge) made it more fancy and intimate,...read more
Particularly eventful and exciting days ahead require some good planning. Choose your events wisely to make the best of the jubilee edition of the Gallery Weekend (02. - 04.05), or keep it simple with our top ten recommendations for the week...read more
Faced with a too-big apartment for the two of them, Hannes Schroeder-Finckh of Sprueth Magers and NickKoenigsknecht of Peres Project did what came naturally: turned it into an art space. The result is Open Forum (formerly, the eponymous KSF...read more
So we are through Armory, Frieze NY and Basel Hong Kong in one week, and at least one Biennal, more mature, more self assured and some of us even more prosperous. This is the second part of the how to fuck things up , a series of realistic,...read more
In this new series bpigs will highlight artists and their work in progress just before their openings. An insider's scoop to an artist studio practise and the many many irrelevant thoughts that go through one's mind before the proverbial 15...read more
After a long and lazy holiday weekend, we are starting to miss the gallery hopping routine. For those who feel the same: use this week's events as a mild-tempo preparation for the marathon called Gallery Weekend (starting 02.05 - more info here...read more
Happy holidays, folks! Easy on the Easter feast; this week there are plenty of places to go and things to see! WEDNESDAY 16.04 18.00 Amir Fattal – Book launch & music performance @ Kunstquartier Bethanien WHY: ‘Shadow of Smoke Rings on the...read more
Newsflash! This week OZEAN allows a view through its closed doors for a new exhibition, the winner of the GASAG Art Prize celebrates with a show at Berlinische Galerie, Praxes presents two new modules, Das Gift and ReTramp gallery share a single...read more
The artist-run space Invaliden1 is now almost ten years old. The collaborative product of 6 artists which started in 2005 in an atelier in Invaliden Strasse, found its final location in a bright gallery space in Schönleinstrasse, in the blossoming...read more
An exciting week ahead -- we look forward to the opening of the largest solo exhibition to date by Ai Wei Wei, our editor-in-chief Despina Stokou's solo show at EIGEN + ART Lab, LEAP's first exhibition at their new space, DJ-slash-painter Markus...read more
In 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...read more
