Diaries

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2015

Tips 10.09 - 20.09

We are counting down the days till the Berlin Art Week – starting on September 15th and gathering art lovers from all over the world for six days in Berlin. This year’s edition includes abc – art berlin contemporary , Positions Berlin , the...read more

Music Tips 01.09 - 14.09

When it comes to parties, Berlin never falls short - a fact proven once again with the upcoming events. Hopefully the holidays and festivals did not drain your resources; if so, stay tuned, we will be giving away free tickets for a few of the...read more

Project Space Festival 2015 - Wrap it up, I’ll take it to go

Another Project Space Festival has come and gone, gracing Berlin with yet another reason to love these wonderful outlets for creative experimentation. The very nature of these venues is what makes this event so unique, with the added feature of...read more

Tips 25.08 - 07.09

While waving goodbye to summer and the month-long Project Space Festival, we are already getting excited about the upcoming Berlin Art Week, abc fair, and all of the linked projects and events happening in September. Between the two major...read more

Music Tips 18.08 - 31.08

Put your hands in the air everybody \o/ five out of seven tips on our list are festivals! August gets all offbeat and wacky with sounds ranging from atonal to fab pop. Style-wise, no need to worry about matching black with black these days; allow...read more

THE SECRET

I have been waiting my whole life for someone to say something, or me to think of something, which will make everything else after that crystal clear. The one thruth. The secret. It has not happened yet. These are the advices, that have...read more
PSF 2015

Project Space Festival 2015: Mid month report

For its second year running, the Project Space Festival returns to Berlin giving the participating spaces, artists, and visitors an opportunity to partake in a very unique experience. With performances, pool tournaments, panel discussions, pop-up...read more

The Gallery Olympics

I did not need to wait until the moment my UBER driver informed me I have a "bad passenger score," to realize everything in this contemporary version of reality is about RATINGS and where these place us in comparison to others. Anybody who has...read more

Tips 11.08 - 24.08

This month you will get all im/possible answers to the question above, and anything you can think of related to it. The art spaces of Berlin are making sure to confuse you by twisting the familiar definitions and providing new and unique art...read more

Music Tips 04.08 - 17.08

This time reporting from our satellite office a stone's throw from the beach where one festival comes after another, and regardless of that our fear of missing out is going wild. Concerts by the music legends, exciting newcomers and next-big-thing...read more

Tips 28.07 - 10.08

A summer month least likely to be remembered for plentiful art events turns into one of the most exciting for the art lovers with daily interventions of the Project Space Festival . This year's edition activates one project space each day in...read more

Music Tips 21.07 - 03.08

One man's trash is another man's treasure. We could use this phrase in many variations, but it actually refers to the fact that most of the events we recommend in this round are located around the infamous Warschauer station, which is getting...read more
Hypnosis by Nicolas Pelzer

HYPNOSIS by Nicolas Pelzer

HYPNOSIS by Nicolas Pelzer Find more works and information about him on his website .read more

Tips 14.07 - 27.07

If you decided to spend the prime vacation time in Berlin, the art capital will not disappoint you. While everyone is getting heat crazy and summer lazy, Berlin - eventful as always - keeps it non-stop cool. Art events of all kinds will keep you...read more

Music Tips 07.07 - 20.07

Summer is short, enjoy it while it lasts. Stick to the sunscreen and our guide through the best concerts, festivals & parties (plus an exhibition opening & a very special film screening) in the next two weeks. Also, keep an eye on our...read more
Nicolas Pelzer in his studio

Artist contribution: Nicolas Pelzer

Twice a year, Bpigs goes all-digital, and so do the B-Sides. We are happy to present you “Hypnosis”, Nicolas Pelzer's artistic contribution for our July / August online issue. The Berlin-based artist is mostly working with new media and digital...read more

Tips 30.06 - 10.07

By all means, it is getting hot in here. Says the weather forecast, your average instagram feed & the eternal battle of hot dogs vs legs , but also our art calender - the hottest topics of the next two weeks are passion, lust & love...read more
Picture by Gabriella Seeman

Walking through walls with Bram Esser

What better way to start your usual Saturday morning, but by a B_Tour around the Plattenbauten of bleak Lichtenberg ? Our guide for this urban Ausflug was Bram Esser, a philosopher who defines himself as an explorer of the everyday – a fact which...read more

Have you met... Konzulát

The young club & art space Konzulát – or the former Czechoslovakian Culture Center, as it is still often referred to – officially opened end of last year. As a much-needed meeting point where you can see an exhibition, a concert or a screening...read more

Music Tips 24.06 - 06.07

Things are slightly deviating in the first official summer weeks. It's no time for smooth hit compilations; Berlin currently sounds like the Lightning Bolt, noisy and fierce! Still, it is all about the variety, so keep scrolling to the one that...read more

Have you met... Bernd Trasberger

In the center of the recently renovated and reopened Berlinische Galerie is the exhibition “Radically Modern: Urban Planning And Architecture In 1960s Berlin”, which takes a comprehensive look at the architecture of East and West Berlin, and its...read more

Tips 17.06 - 27.06

Festival mode on: the annual celebration of all-things-Neukölln meets the first Berlin Food Art Week, while over a hundred films are being shown at Les Rencontres Internationales, and about two hundred art publications presented at Miss Read. All...read more
Rhea Dall & Kristin Siegel, picture Malene Korsgaard Lauritsen

The end of a Cycle at PRAXES

After two years, four Cycles, eight presented artistic positions, and more than fifty hosted events, it is time for Rhea Dall and Kristine Siegel, the founding directors of PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art, to close their Berlin venue and take...read more

Have you met... The Berlin Art Prize

In anticipation of the third edition of the Berlin Art Prize, an independent annual award honoring contemporary art from Berlin, we met up with the founders to hear all about this "meticulous cover version of a classical art prize", which became...read more

Music Tips 09.06 - 22.06

Summer-flavoured, genre-varied two weeks ahead: three very different, equally interesting festivals, plus countless gigs and parties blasting great music for chilling and/or dancing. Things get even better with Bpigs and our generous friends –...read more

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