The time has come, Berlin Art Week is just around the corner, and so is hopefully the better part of 2021. Right? Right?!! I misspelled the title of this newsletter on purpose. Such a vast space between the two words. Weak Tips, Our Tips Weakly. I do not mean to say Berlin's Art is weak ( although it often is). Or that Berlin's Art structures are weak; they have gotten stronger and weaker over the last years and, yes, this is an evasion. Why do we spend so much time dwelling on our weaknesses privately but not publicly. Wouldn't it be more productive to center our social structures around our weaker population, strengthening them instead of pushing them to the periphery. Why didnt the Neue National Galerie open with a female modernist. And a side note; Has Berlin become more…German-y in the last years? Just an impression I have had. Thoughts?

OPENING THIS FRIDAY, AUGUST 27TH AT 19H CEREMONY: RUSSIAN SEASONS, THE WEDDING
curated by Yulia Belousova with works by AFFF Collective, A Z I Z A, Apollinaria Broche, Ekaterina Burlyga, Sonya & Varya Cheltsovii, Olga Chernycheva, Alina Glazoun, Katya Isaeva, Maria Kolosovskaya, Victoria Kosheleva, Anna Kuznetsova, Nadezhda Likhogrud, Taus Makhacheva, Anna Nezhnaya, Ulyana Podkorytova, Susanna Smailova, Margo Trushina, Ustina Yakovleva

The Western world was famously introduced to the Russian culture at the beginning of the 20th century by Sergei Diaghilev, an art critic and ballet impresario. Known under the famous title „Ballets Russes Company“, he organised and launched a series of major art exhibitions and performances across Europe. It was Diaghilev’s dream to bring Russian culture to the West and create a world of art in which décor, costumes, music, and expression were one harmonious whole. In one world – it was a celebration, an act, in which Russians are real virtuosos. As the title proposes the exhibition Ceremony: Russian Seasons, The Wedding is following in Sergei Diaghilev’s footsteps of promoting Russian culture only this time focussing on female artists, whose activities have been largely hidden in the shadow of the masculine society in the past. Ironically focusing on the theme of the Ceremony of the Wedding, another dance and a celebration like a ballet, the following exhibition is bringing together a new generation of female Russian artists re- thinking the role of the modern women in the Eastern society. (Text: Yulia Belousova)

Please note: Due to construction works in the main gallery, HaL is closed from September 6 until September 15.

28 Aug 2021 – 10 Oct 2021
Haus am Lützowplatz - Studio Galerie
Lützowplatz 9
10785 Berlin

ANNA MEYER - HOPSTERS EXHIBITION TOUR AND ARTIST TALK THURSDAY 26TH AUGUST 19H

Exhibition tour with Marc Wellmann, director of Haus am Lützowplatz together with art critic and curator Raimar Stange. The artist, Anna Meyer, will tune in per Zoom from Vienna.

Haus am Lützowplatz
Lützowplatz 9
10785 Berlin

FRIDAY AUGUST 27TH, 16H UNDER THE VIRAL SHADOW NETWORKS IN THE AGE OF TECHNO-SCIENCE AND INFECTION-
with Anna Dumitriu | Alex May | Benjamin Bacon | Gene Kogan | Sarah Grant | Vivian Xu

The exhibition presents artistic projects that critically explore biological networks, digital networks, and social networks under the pressure of new technologies. Pictured here is Anna Dumitriu’s object “Engineered Antibody” is a custom beaded necklace based on an antibody engi­neered to contain a combination of 21 amino acids – which could not occur in nature – but originally it was derived from the blood of an HIV patient. It also contains the actual 21 amino acids found in the antibody.

Registration required for the opening here.
Art Laboratory Berlin
Prinzenallee 34
13359 Berlin

Another beautiful opening on FRIDAY 27 AUGUST 4 TO 10PM: HEART FACTS MOTHERS IN ART

with Alke Brinkmann, painting / Ines Doleschal (and children), works on paper.

With her humorous collages Ines Doleschal reveals the asymmetry of fatherhood and motherhood in the art world. The stirring portraits that Alke Brinkmann painted of her children prove that it can be an advantage to be a mother and an artist.

28 Aug 2021 – 25 Sep 2021
Axel Obiger – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Brunnenstr. 29
10119 Berlin

SATURDAY 28TH AUGUST 10-18H- AI FOR ARTISTS WORKSHOP WITH GENE KOGAN

The workshop is part of the show UNDER THE VIRAL SHADOW- Networks in the Age of Technoscience and Infection organised by @artlaboratoryberlin, in which Gene Kogan is presented with his piece Abraham. More on this show soon! For now save your spot at this workshop, beginner and intermediate friendly, details here.

FEES & REGISTRATION 25 EUR / 18 EUR  register@artlaboratory-berlin.org
Art Laboratory Berlin
Prinzenallee 34
13359 Berlin

On view at Eigen & Art KARL-HEINZ ADLER METRICS go see this show!

Inspired by his work as an instructor in the architecture department at Dresden’s Technical College, in 1957 Adler began his first collages, the “Schichtungen” (layerings). At the end of the 1960s, the artist transposed the basic principle of seriality to the drawing: from 1967 on, he created his “Serielle Lineaturen” (serial lineatures) – precise, large-format works in which rays and elliptical forms are condensed into elaborate compositions, some of which are reminiscent of waves or eddies. Repetition, modulation, the effects of minimal shifts in grids, and the conscious negation of the producer in favor of a technoid-cool overall aesthetic are also the central building blocks of the electronic culture that developed in the 1990s and that shapes many areas of Western culture to this day. (Extract from a text by Kito Nedo)

until 30 Oct 2021
Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin
Auguststraße 26
10117 Berlin

While we are at it, this is a show I have saved on my calendar:  IGOR HOSNEDL KÁ QUILLS’ ROOM Opening Sept 9th 17-21h at Eigen Art Lab

Painting is always an extremely personal matter, which, however, does not only concern the artists. Depending on the emotional situation, each viewer can also find something very individual for him or herself. I know I do!

Duration: 9 Sep 2021 – 30 Oct 2021
EIGEN + ART Lab
Torstraße 220
10115 Berlin

FRIDAY AUG 27th, 16h YOU AND I EAT THE SAME OR WHERE’S THE EDGE OF THE POT?

with Maureen de Jong. Workshop considering the ways food connects us to each other. The workshop will be repeated on Saturday and Sunday Aug 28+29th at 19h. Check @wirwir for more intellectually delicious events. 

WIRWIR
Stuttgarter Str. 56
12059 Berlin

Was Beuys overrated? Discuss!
meme from @freezemagazine who has a Meme show in Berlin, at Weserhalle (which I am not sure I recommend, but have to mention)

THAT IS ALL FOLKS! Super cool events we missed for this weekend?! Do tell! Info at bpigs dot com