The Bpigs Diaries offer a peek under the art market hood; what are the power dynamics, access and gatekeeping, and the current tension holders. Let's discuss!
Unfortunately I've been unable to write the blog for the past 2 weeks as I somehow managed to get Salmonella (which I had half thought was a made-up illness used to ward off children from licking the bowl when making cakes) so I ended up spending...read more
BPIGS, first issue budget plan - June 2010 “The identity of an artist doesn’t have to be a truthful one, they believed. (about Duchamp and Man Ray) What they were doing was unpicking the conventions.” Jennifer Mundy, curator of Duchamp, Man Ray,...read more
Michaela 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...read more
St. Agnes church - Wed night Michaela Meise performed church songs that relate to her recent album Preis dem Todesüberwinder Berlin is apparently a teenager of 772 years old. I am not quite sure how old the art scene in Berlin is, but all...read more
Letters 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 @...read more
The only other word that is pronounced with the same eye rolling, self explaining disgust and dot dot dots besides “Artists!...“ is without a doubt the word: “Tourists!...“ As we spend these last summer weeks in what resembles the mood in a...read more
Jonathan 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...read more
As the office that I currently work in is located in the new-new Berlin gallery "hot-spot", situated around the Check-Point Charlie area, I have been attempting to break up the monotony of the working day, or to find some quick-fix through...read more
Don’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...read more
Lev 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...read more
1. I love Berliners: so many open, friendly, willing to engage with you German people who are interested in art, current affairs, new ideas and even just off the press clueless Auslander impressions of their beloved Deutschland. Curious about what...
Steven 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...read more
1work / 1room / 1night @ Gitte Bohr, DRAW, Victoria's last night@bar 3, ChessBoxing @Platoon to be honest I was not aware who the cute old couple were @Schinkel Pavillion- RIP Franz West. WEDNESDAY 25.07 1work / 1room / 1night Part 1: Ondrej Brody...read more
Back in February, when I had gotten all intern crazy and spent a week actually joking about building the "pigs" army. I met this girl, the last of a series of young people offering to do everything for nothing. She had been a while in Berlin, got...read more
Part Two My involvement with Bpigs has been a bit…haphazard to date. The post you are about to read in now, is approximately 5 months delayed. To summarize … It was February, I was unemployed and running out of money fast …on the brink of a self...read more
Our Likes our now complete- Maria , Rachel , Christian and mine below. Now your turn! Send in or comment online the 5 things you absolutey adore about Berlin and its art scene. We will post all half -way sane answers with a name, as soon as we get...read more
First things first: in the Art Scene 1. Focusing, filtering, setting clear interests and establishing your own networks. Something I learned over the last years is that this process can be really revealing and satisfying, especially in a city with...
What I like about art in Berlin 1. Never ending event calendar : There are so many openings, events, lectures, performances, and parties to choose from every day and night! Therefore, when I am not doing anything especially productive, instead of...
Despina Stokou- if you don't watch out you are going to end up a curator 2012 in situ installation, Derek Eller Gallery NY Stargastkoch Despina Stokou, gerade eben erst jet-set-mässig von ihrer ersten New Yorker Ausstellung zurückgekehrt, ist...
Miha 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 @...read more
Japanther @ 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...read more
