Off space, artist run space, project space, independent, non-profit, temporary, contemporary, avant-garde, hype, playground, cool…yeah yeah. But what do we really know about Berlin’s cultural spaces and the people behind them? We're introducing them to you, one by one.
Suvi with a painting from the exhibition Alte Schönhauser Strasse 26 by Eemil Karila She landed in Berlin almost three years ago. Before starting the gallery under her name in Mitte, she would trace a long academic path from Finland via London and...read more
The closest I have been to know them was meeting Georg Parthen and Nicolas Wollnik at their so-named space in Köpenickerstr. 159. Their paths crossed in Essen while studying Communication Design at the art school. Back in those days they thought...read more
Since nights falls like big pianos lately, you can get the impression that days are shorter. But you can also grasp the best of Berlin evenings in venues with late opening hours like Subtitut (Fridays open until 21.00!). Art theoretician and...read more
This time I met Ulrike Ludwig , who spoke on behalf of the artist collective behind the Kreuzberg Gallery Scotty Enterprises . She is currently having a solo show at their space, what means that I also met the artist and saw her work, two birds...read more
Text and photgraphs by Maria Santos I'm almost sure that you have met her before. In fact you probably took part in a project that she curated. Remember the A0 posters at ex tip-Berlin-Shop during Gallery Weekend ? Yes? Then you're in the right...read more
You have already met her if you were some of the lucky few attending the Speed portfolio viewing last sunday. In case you didn't, let me introduce you to the player behind the intriguing name of L'Atelier-kunst(spiel)raum !! Stefania Angelini (...read more
If Mitte was a worm, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz would be one of its hearts. The other four, you can certainly name them. What you can't deny is that the corners of the Volksbühne have a lot to offer. On its newest -and most shocking- building you can...read more
You probably have met Enrico Centonze, director of Grimmuseum, and you almost certainly have met me...but have you met the rest of the team? WHO: Marcel Türkowsky & Francesco Cavaliere WHAT: Curators of the sound art program WHISTLE MINOTAURE...read more
Picture by Laura Gianetti It was exactly fifty years after the construction of the wall when I got to talk with Lutz Henke (1981), the president of Kunstverein Artitude . Growing up in the continuously developing background that was Berlin in the...read more
Perla Montelongo and Ignacio Garcia from Node Center for Curatorial Studies (Image courtesy of Laura Gianetti ) Artists teaching Curators? Perla Montelongo (Mexico, 1980) and Ignacio García Gómez del Valle (Spain,1978), founding members and...read more
