Diaries

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2018

Cover image © Gulnur Mukazhanova / Kunstquartier Bethanien

Top Shows You Overlooked @ Berlin Art Week 2018

Even though it technically is a week-long event, the Berlin Art Week echoes for much longer. Many of the exhibitions that are part of the program are still open to visitors for a few more weeks, or months, and can be viewed as they should…read more
Photo: Transit by Georg Korner at Positions Art Berlin Fair

Review: Berlin Art Week 2018

As the art fairs at Flughafen Tempelhof are taken down, the multiple off-site venues around town cleaned, and the hangovers of art people attended to in beds everywhere, Berlin Art Week 2018 comes to an end. This year we saw a handful of festive...read more

Have you met... Aurora Reinhard

The work of Finnish artist Aurora Reinhard is built upon different observations and theories on gender and sexuality. When asked why she keeps exploring these topics, Aurora sincerely answers – „It is not my decision“. Although contradictory at...read more

Sneak Peek @ Berlin Art Week

The Berlin Art Week is about to lift off — now for the seventh time, it invites visitors to join various exhibition openings, art fairs, award ceremonies, urban interventions, and numerous special events that will inhabit Berlin's venues, from the...read more

Pre-interview: Evelyn Taocheng Wang

While anticipating the Berlin Art Week and its many interrelated exhibitions and events, we reached out to the Rotterdam-based artist Evelyn Taocheng Wang (born 1981 in Chengdu, China) to talk about her upcoming show titled "What is he afraid of...read more

Bpigs Tips July

Summer has arrived, and it doesn’t seem that art takes a break from it. We picked July’s finest exhibitions and events, perfect for a stroll through Berlin summer. WEDNESDAY 04.07 11.00 Rundgang 50Hertz, the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu...read more
Pierre Granoux — 2017 Courtesy of Klaus Killisch

Have You Met… LAGE EGAL / Pierre Granoux

The name LAGE EGAL has become well known within the Berlin art scene. Over the past 8 years, artist-curator Pierre Granoux has been developing many curatorial projects, aiming to offer a space for production and wider visibility to artists. We...read more

Studio Visit with Karina Griffith

We met with District Berlin 's current studio grant holder, Karina Griffith , whose practice comprises film and installation, often in tandem, as well as curatorial projects and organizing talks, conferences and events within the frame of her...read more

Pre-Interview: Artist Weekend 2018 - NGORONGORO II

Initiated in 2015, the large-scale group exhibition organized by artists Jonas Burgert , John Isaacs , Christian Achenbach , Zhivago Duncan , Andrej Golder , Andreas Mühe and David Nicholson under the name of Artist Weekend , is taking place for...read more
Cover photo: Courtesy of Pierre Granoux / LAGE EGAL

Performing Presence: Patrick Jambon

Gallery Weekend brings a densely packed schedule of exhibition openings and events to Berlin each year. It’s a time when bustling crowds flood Potsdamer Strasse and the like, weaving in and out of the many spaces that open their doors with new...read more
Cover image © Anna Steele, Separation Stream, 2018

Tips 10.04 – 23.04

Spring seems to be awakening the best in the art scene, too: this month we are treated with quite a few art fairs & festivities, at home in Berlin and in the neighborhood abroad. Check out what is not to be missed. THURSDAY 12.04 19.00...read more

Tips 29.03 – 09.04

Regardless of the ways you intend to manifest indulgence this coming holiday, we strongly suggest to mind some food for thought, too. Our tips include a variety of stimuli: exhibition openings, closings, readings, lectures & talks, plus an...read more
Cover image © Yvon Chabrowski

Have you met... Yvon Chabrowski

In her multimedia work, the Berlin-born artist Yvon Chabrowski deals with the visual formulas of contemporary media, which she decontextualizes to uncover its mechanisms and manipulation strategies. Her sculptural video installations and...read more

Have you met... Dorothée Nilsson Gallery

We had the opportunity to meet with Dorothée Nilsson , who opened her space on the gallery-lined Potsdamer Straβe last fall. Arriving at the gallery, its storefront window wrapping around two sides – offering a panoramic view of the bustling...read more
Cover photo © Üzgün Yılmaz

Have you met... Moiz Zilberman

Zilberman Gallery's presence is hardly news to anyone—the Berlin branch of the originally Istanbul-based gallery was warmly welcomed almost two years ago, and has since established itself as an exciting hub for young contemporary art. The gallery'...read more

Tips 15.03 - 25.03

As the long-awaited Spring finally graces Berlin – well, sort of – we're mapping out the route for you to start enjoying it outside your homes. As per usual, it's a gallery round packed with worthy exhibition openings and talks, as well as the...read more
Image credits: Ece Pazarbaşı

Have you met... Berlin Art Grant Clinic

Her experiences in the art world, as well as an interest in supporting fellow curators, artists, and art administrators has brought Berlin-based Turkish curator Ece Pazarbaşı to start the Berlin Art Grant Clinic. It is a clinic specialised in...read more

Malwina Niespodziewana's "Comic Gold Haribo"

The Polish artist Malwina Niespodziewana recently exhibited her latest series Comic Gold Haribo at Maniere Noire in Berlin. In the 30 drawings, the artist explores scenes drawn from her work, her family and her surroundings, while at the same time...read more

Tips 28.02 - 10.03

Our freshly assembled Tips take you through some of the most interesting art exhibitions and events in Berlin. See what's really worth seeing in the following weeks. THURSDAY 01.03 19.00 Falkenrot Prize 2018 + “Out of Touch / Out of Time” @...read more

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa @ Galerie im Turm

With the newly commissioned curators Lena Johanna Reisner and Sylvia Sadzinski, Galerie im Turm takes on a new direction. Their two-year curatorial mandate kicked off earlier this month with “Third Lung”, a solo exhibition of the Guatemalan artist...read more

Tips 14.02 - 26.02

Scroll through our latest best-of in Berlin: we have some sweet exhibition openings and events lined up to get you through this short yet turbulent month gracefully. THURSDAY 15.02 17.00 Marc Desgrandchamps – "Standbilder" @ Galerie EIGEN + ART...read more
Photos Courtesy the artist and Künstlerhaus Bethanien

Tracey Snelling at Künstlerhaus Bethanien

Tracey Snelling’s solo exhibition, First We Take Manhattan, at Künstlerhaus Bethanien presents intricately detailed sets filled with the minutia of everyday life – viewed through a lens that zooms both out and in – from cities to buildings to...read more

Tips 31.01 - 12.02

The festival season is upon us; that, of course, doesn't mean we won't give any love to the wonderful exhibition openings this month. Between mind building at transmediale and pushing your hearing limits at CTM, try to pack a slice of fine art...read more

Preview: CTM & Transmediale

Rejoice, freaks & geeks! It's time to look forward to two of the major, avantgarde-flavored festivals in Berlin: the 31-year-old Transmediale and its younger counterpart CTM . Marrying the best of digital art, music, technology & culture,...read more

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