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!
A l'arme Festival pre-sale starts! International festival for avant-garde jazz, vibrant experimental music since 2012. Get your early bird deal May 3rd at midnight. An event by Louis Rastig and Karina Mertin/ABOUTNOW. In cooperation…read more
Deep breaths, good shoes, hydrate! Here is a list of cool stuff to visit on and off the beaten path. For the purposes of this list we concentrated on one time events, 2-3 day pop ups and openings that get the good good crowds. Wednesday…read more
Let's make some noise! List your pop-ups, open studios, group, and solo shows now. We now accept project spaces, galleries, institutions, and individual artist listings. Here are a few tips. Plan and list your event at least…read more
Wednesday February 15th – HIDDEN GEMS at Dorothée Nilsson Gallery The exhibition will evolve and from Wednesday, 15th of February onwards will include works by Gerry Johansson, Julia Peirone, Lisa Röing Baer, Stefanie Schweiger,…read more
Friday February 3, 18-20h opening of Rehearsal for Redemption , @wannsee_contemporary with @yaelbartana with artistic advice by @shelleyharten . With the exhibition 'Rehearsal for Redemption', Yael Bartana enters into a conversation…read more
Ho Ho Cold! As promised, here is our Art Gift Guide Winter edition. THE DEVIL SITS IN RUSSIA, BIRDS FLY HIGH ABOVE - Special edition Morgenvogel-houses from recycled Russian wood. by Maria Leena Räihälä Special edition MV-House,…read more
It is normal and completely human to think and communicate in unconventional ways. Being human is a spectrum. Mel Baggs, autistic blogger, and activist. It is an honor to feature some pieces from the latest issue Crip magazine by Eva…read more
Soup du Jour public letter To Monica Bonvicini Over the years, we’ve come to know you – (by following your work as an artist) – as somebody who operates from a feminist worldview and according to feminist principles. Your work…read more
I nodded in agreement when I first read this e-flux note by Anselm Franke (first published in German in Monopol). And yes, I am back talking about documenta but only peripherally. We are witnessing old structures, not wanting to die.…read more
Iranian security forces have killed at least 41 people — most of them women — for protesting the oppression and subjugation of women in the name of #MahsaAmini Iranian security forces have killed at least 41 people — most…read more
Solidarity with Ruangrupa, the artists/activists of documenta fifteen, and their allies and friends in the lumbung community. "For months we have continuously faced smearing attacks, humiliations, vandalism, and threats in major media…read more
"Sometimes offensive", of course, does a lot of heavy lifting in the collective socioeconomic wet dreams of the rich Wunderkind. I consider König a peer, of sorts, from our Bar 3 days. I mean, I was a thirty-something foreigner…read more
Why dont we want our rich people to fail? Let's talk about it. I am summarizing (and commenting) this NYT article which you can have free access to here . Julia Stoschek’s great-grandfather, the German industrialist Max Brose, was a member of the...read more
It has now become painful to watch. Steyerl, who initially had tried to put the whole documenta pre- opening controversy in a historical context has now removed her work from the show. There is a whole world of memes here, of Hito looking...read more
You know what? I am not even going to with the news. THIS WEEK We loved Yuki Kihara's participation at this year’s 59th Venice Biennale, Paradise Camp at the New Zealand pavilion -- now we have the chance to see her work in Berlin too!! TOMORROW...read more
People's Justice by Taring Padi documenta 15 opened last week with all the journalists going on Antisemitismus hunt. First reports were of a lively, uplifting, relaxing experience that "succesfully rejects the western art market" (whatever we...read more
How did I not know the documenta founders were members of Nazi organizations? I mean, the German Pavillion in Venice (rebuilt by Ernst Haiger's design in 1938) has been deconstructed and reconstructed and poked and probed over the years through...read more
As I said, never dull in 2022. So what the f*** is happening with documenta? I have been staring at this text for over a minute now and still can't figure out what it says. Crisis PR mode is even more impenetrable than regular art PRs. Documenta...read more
Never a dull day in 2022; if it is not a worldwide pandemic, it will be the threat of nuclear apocalypse, gas prices, or, you know, the good old abuse of power in the workplace. That is not new; we are new at talking about it. Do you remember...read more
After Gallery Weekend Berlin is Before the Gallery Weekend Berlin. There are a lot of labor issues we gloss over in the art world, in the name of … well, admit it, the minute I said “labor,” you felt your art world pizzaz deflate. It is like...read more
Let's start from the end, shall we? No better way to end your Gallery Weekend ahm week than Miss Read Book Festival 2022 LIVE. IN. BERLIN. AGAIN. 300+ publishers, art periodicals and artists/authors on show and, in conjunction, the Conceptual...read more
Anyone who is anyone will be in Venice this year, because it has been two years god dammit and we are all gonna die soon. But not everyone can speak Italian. We are here to help, capturing the Zeitgeist and having our Italian co workers translate...read more
Among cultural bans, Covid, and a very prominent national pavilion standing empty, the Venice Biennale is opening this week! Conceived by the first Italian (!) curator Cecilia Alemani who made sure, comme il faut, an overwhelming majority of the...read more
And here I thought we should be discussing a transition from the feudal, redundant snooze fest of state funding that procures the so-called National Pavillions every two years at the otherwise lovely Bienalle Jardini. But no, let's bring the...read more
