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!
Never gonna let you down Berliners! Wait, wait what- Terrestrisch, Fantastisch und NASS?! What is happening to us- there is a show, conceived as a sensory installation on (between other things) the sexual facets of worms, opening in Berlin this...read more
Just saying. ACTIVIST NEUROAESTHETICS CONFERENCE July 8th- 11th, online, free with registration We are on the verge of a paradigm shift as we transition from a knowledge and information economy to a neural-based one. The advent of an assortment of...read more
Activist Neuroaesthetics Conference July 8-11, 2021 via Zoom, free with registration links below. All times CET/Berlin. The ACTIVIST NEUROAESTHETICS Conference will take place online July 8-11 and includes a number of important thinkers to...read more
Opening this week 2. July 2021, 16–22h @Axel Obiger ( hot, long openings are back!!!) Prospect Park - Matthias Moravek und Alexander Skorobogatov Image: Alexander Skorobogatov „I Don’t Bite“, Metall, Silikon, Pigment, Farbe, 110 x 80 x 80 cm, 2021...read more
Here is our amuse bouche to start off the newsletter this week! The Schröder Haus gets digitally vandalised by artist Michalis Zacharias in his current show AUTHENTICALLY APPEALING at Ileana Tounta gallery in Athens. On view until July 31st. @...read more
This is exactly how I feel with everything reopening (too fast?) and having to shave my legs again. Selin Wutzler "16 : 18 : 15 : 3 : 5 : 19 : 19" performance this Friday June 18th at 19h (This video has a very enjoyable, very fitting, and very...read more
I spent a disproportional amount of time the last two days looking for a starting image to announce the Gallery Weekend Berlin is having a summer do-over next weekend June 18-19th. Something that says fresh beginnings, something that says re-...read more
Freie Kunst- und Kulturproduktion findet projektweise statt, meist mit besonderem Aufwand für Materialeinsatz, Reisen und Transport. Wie kann die Freie Szene zur Entlastung der Umwelt beitragen? Das Haus der Materialisierung (HdM) als Beispiel für...read more
One thing we have been enjoying during this uncertain period is alternative cultural formats. Case in point: THINK! - an auditive online series. What impact do news and headlines have – especially if one needs to follow their directives. How do...read more
Green is the new Black! We have had a lot of time this last year to think how we can make the art market a more sustainable place and we are happy to see some initiatives growing towards that direction, even if they are ultimately powered by...read more
It is Aperol Spritz time, and nothing, NOTHING will take this away from us. Well, I can think of a few things, but let's move on. Let's make some new memories, people; let's start forgetting this year ever happened. We want to know what you are up...read more
THE FAIREST is a fresh initiative launched by Eleonora Sutter and Georgie Pope to support young, emerging, or independent artists and creators. Artists, regardless of gallery representation or medium, typically without access to fairs, are...read more
FICTIONS: An anthology centering queer voices in/from/across South Asia a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. kal Call for Submissions: Until 15 April 2021 For District's Berlin upcoming fiction anthology, they are looking for...read more
ON FEB 18th 2021, 6-9 PM, Floating e.V will hold a public jury session, as part of their open call for urban practitioners. During the session, five finalists will present their project proposals for the site of the Floating University Berlin,...read more
You know when you are waiting for the bus in the rain and it takes a while, and then you say fuck it I ll walk, you start walking and then the bus splashes you right past in what seems like the next second? It is coming, people. The bus is coming...read more
I was minding my own business one post-2020 afternoon (yesterday) when scrolling through the ad-lgorythm that is Instagram these days; I happened upon the latest Berlin art venture: the Clubhouse. An experience so exclusive it might as well not...read more
As this year, the year that will from now on be referred to as THAT year comes to an end, I couldn't help but wonder… what does it all mean. Do global pandemics need to happen for a reason? No. But happened it did, and I am curious if we, we the...read more
Concerts, dialogues, live drawing: An open-air salon in two parts of the artist group "Die Kette" Tuesday, 15 September 2020, doors: 19:00 h, start: 20:00 h, Open-air stage at Suicide Club Bertil Thomas (Live Sets) Gabriele Gysi & Thomas Götz...read more
Berlin is Berlin is Berlin, lost collectors, art fairs and Corona be damned. New industrial space needs clients? Here comes the art to smooth the path along. With: Thomas Arnolds, Julius von Bismarck, Catherine Biocca, Sol Calero, Keltie Ferris,...read more
FROM SEPTEMBER 9 TO WHEN THE CLUB REOPENS In the STUDIO BERLIN exhibition, the Boros Foundation presents the works of over eighty contemporary artists who live and work in Berlin. The show features national and international perspectives in the...read more
I think this is an excellent moment to start over in the art scene: Educate collectors, gallerists, art lovers, even artists. Any reform in the art world and one is now sorely needed, should start in the ways we talk and write about Art. Starting...read more
Art is always lonely. It is lonely in its conception because you need to quiet the voices in your head. It is lonely in its process because you left it too long, and now you have to finish the damn show. It is lonely in its social context because...read more
Open call for an educational residency with: BILL FONTANA (composer and video artist), HANS PETER KUHN (sound and visual artist), SEBASTIAN MULLAERT a.k.a MINILOGUE (producer and DJ), OVE HOLMQVIST (sound artist), HANS ROSENSTRÖM (sound artist),...read more
Another beautiful, fresh initiative this week trying to navigate a brave new world of semi-isolation. Berlin galleries have joined forces to create BerlinViews, a website format presenting over 25 galleries and gallery models. Initiated by Office...read more
Berlin galleries are stirring up again from the self-imposed quarantine as the State is now allowing non-essential businesses with spaces smaller than 800-square-meters (8,600 square feet) to reopen starting Monday, April 20. Galleries and...read more
