Let's start from the end, shall we? No better way to end your Gallery Weekend ahm week than Miss Read Book Festival 2022 LIVE. IN. BERLIN. AGAIN.  300+ publishers, art periodicals and artists/authors on show and, in conjunction, the Conceptual Poetics Day will explore the imaginary border between visual art and literature. The poster for MISS READ 2022 is created by Jay Ramier.

FREE ENTRY- April 29 – May 1, 2022
Opening Hours: Friday 5-9pm // Opening Party 9pm till late. Saturday 12-7pm Sunday 12-7pm
at Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

The Milk of Dreams, the main exhibition at the 59th Venice Biennal curated by (the first ever) Italian born female curator Cecilia Alemani

received rave reviews, as the “queerest” show ever made a “pixie Dream Land” or as the NYT art critic put it “Her feminist, surrealist and ecological approach has produced a coherent and challenging show, whose optimistic vision of emancipation through imagination feels very rare nowadays.” Rare? If by Rare we mean Never Been Given a Platform before; If by Rare we mean Suppressed, sure let's go with Rare.
Simone Leigh’s Brick House greeting visitors in the opening gallery of the show received a Golden Lion as did Sonia Boyce for best national participation with the UK Pavillion in the Giardini. Leigh and Boyce are the first black women to win a Golden Lion, also THE FIRST BLACK WOMEN to represent their respective nations (USA and UK) at the 127 year old event.  Rare indeed.  
Photo by Ben Davis.

GALLERY WEEK(END) BERLIN

There is something for everyone in Berlin's 18th (!!!) Gallery Weekend; the first in two years that actually takes place on that one warm weekend a year before May 1st. You have the mafia galleries turned woke, the heteronormative, the snoozy, the blue chips or all of the above, the corporate Mega Spaces turned Art halls, the inexplicably publicly funded Non Berlin Kunsthalle, the Experience aka Instagram shows, Alicja Kwade giving in to publishing her DNA as NFT ( you know who I blame for this awkwardness), the endless stream of project spaces that makes Berlin, Berlin. And well, all you dear readers, biking around for the free booze. Are we back to free drinks yet? I don't know.
We in Bpigs tend to concentrate on what you might otherwise miss. Independent thinking and out-of-the-box projects. When these artists are mainstream in a few years, we don't want you to go ahead and say something basic like “wow, that is rare”.

TUESDAY

TUESDAY 26 April, 19h at SMAC: MICHAEL SAILSTORFER + THOMAS KRATZ

26 Apr 2022 – 15 May 2022
SMAC
Linienstraße 57
10119 Berlin

WEDNESDAY

WED 28 APRIL, 18H AT GALERIE IM TURM. KIM BODE: THOSE THAT SLIP AMONG MOLECULES

Kim Bode create landscapes that do not distinguish between the human constructs of what is artificial or natural, instead interweaving them. This not only challenges the narrative in which humans imagine themselves as ruling over nature, but also brings to the fore conceptions of queer ecologies.
curated by Linnéa Meiners
28 Apr 2022 – 3 Jul 2022
Galerie im Turm
Frankfurter Tor 1
10243 Berlin

OPENING WED 27 APRIL, 19H AT HAUS AM LÜTZOWPLATZ STUDIO GALERIE: PAIN/T/H/ING – AUSSER HAUS

concept by Elisabeth Sonneck and Stefanie von Schroeter
With works by: Bram Braam, Manfred Holtfrerich, Karin Sander, Marten Schech, Elisabeth Sonneck, Stefanie von Schroeter
The exhibition „pain/t/h/ing - ausser Haus“ shows seven positions that can be located in the fluid terrain between painting, sculpture, object and installation. In the artistic working process, a direct hand is laid on material and things, just as organic properties or physical conditions become authors of the works.
The HAL-HOFSKULPTUR #7 MONIKA GOETZ – 280°C will be inaugurated as well, in the garden.

27 Apr 2022 – 19 Jun 2022
Haus am Lützowplatz
Lützowplatz 9
10785 Berlin

WED APRIL 27, 19H AT OYOUN WE SHOULD ALL BE DREAMING
As part of Perform Europe, choreographer and artistic director Sonya Lindfors brings the project "FEMINIST FUTURES - towards antiracist and intersectional stages" and the event "We Should All Be Dreaming" to Oyoun in April. Between collective think tank, choreographed gathering, performance and a lecture, the project gently invites participants to spend time together, listen to each other and dream together. In collaboration with writer and activist Maryan Abdulkarim, insights into radical utopian and decolonial practices will be shared. The April 27 event is for BIPoCs only and there will be two more (including a performance dinner) on April 28 and 29. For the one on April 29 there will be a sign language translation (English -> German Sign Language).
27 Apr 2022 – 29 Apr 2022
OYOUN
Lucy-Lameck-Str. 32
12049 Berlin

THURSDAY

OPENING APRIL 29, 17-22H SHOWROOM GALERIE GEORG NOTHELFER SÜLZENSAAL

Sülzensaal by Pegasus Product means dignified dining with the goût du rue. The homemade "Sülze" (Aspic) stands for more transparency and loosens the palate - tout comme il faut. The interior, specially designed by Pegasus Product, reflects the unkempt spontaneity of a world metropolis. Celebrate the comeback of "Abendbrot" with Pegasus Product.
Info and dates here
The dinner evenings (May 1 - June 23) cost 25 € per person. Rvsp: nothelfer@galerie-nothelfer.de
30 Apr 2022 – 25 Jun 2022
Showroom Galerie Georg Nothelfer
Grolmanstraße 28
10623 Berlin

FRIDAY

OPENING 29 APRIL 18-21H, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM: OTHERING

with Yalda Afsah, Julian Charrière, Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya, Andreas Greiner, Jenna Sutela, Analisa Teachworth, Jol Thoms, Sung Tieu und Jonas Wendelin
The twelve artists explore how certain lives—human and nonhuman—are designated as alien, and the possibilities of forging relationships across the yawning chasm of self and other.

29 Apr 2022 – 25 Jun 2022
DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM
Linienstraße 23
10178 Berlin

APRIL 29, 18H AT ACI: PROTECTION, BY ANNA ANDERS

The exhibition Protection by Anna Anders shows artworks that deal with the theme of protection. She uses photographs and video artworks in situations where people find themselves in unsafe threatening circumstances, or in situations where they realize they should be protecting themselves. By juxtaposing familiar protection, familiar because it has been fashionably and stylishly changed and thus become the everyday norm, with a situation of defenselessness and the search for protection, she sensitively opens up a debate, a discussion about our cultural approach to threat and protection.
30 Apr 2022 – 28 May 2022
Art Claims Impulse
Markgrafenstraße 86
10969 Berlin

FINISSAGE THE OBIGER GALAXIS APRIL 29, 18-23H AND APP-RELEASE > APPARITION / CONTINGENCIES

The augmented reality experience "contingencies" by the artist Maja Rohwetter addresses the interference of reality and virtuality as a fundamental question of painting. Users can experiment interactively and participative in scalable dimensions with compositions that can be saved as screenshots via the app. Concept and 3D animations: Maja Rohwetter / Sound: Tuomo Väänänen

Axel Obiger – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Brunnenstr. 29
10119 Berlin

SATURDAY


APRIL 30TH, 19H AT SOFT POWER: SANGUN HO: IT’S MY HOUSE

Quoting Diana Ross’ iconic hit It’s my house, Sangun Ho’s solo exhibition at soft power looks into the details that make up the surfaces of our everyday life. The romantic encounter of two pigeons on a sidewalk, an abandoned pillow comfortably resting on a window sill, a little dog peeking over the edge of the breakfast table, a bottle hiding out under the fridge – Sangun Ho captures lived and living moments that we all encounter every day. The artist collects and accumulates these fragments in a snapshot-like manner – halting their fleeting presence by giving each of them the focused attention needed to create his detailed hand drawings. As a body of work, the vast amount of these daily drawings seems to represent “the real world”, yet creating a world entirely of their own. Often captured in transit, on his way to the studio, coming home, leaving, Sangun Ho’s motives hint at the beauty inherent in the oddest of situations.
30 Apr 2022 – 22 May 2022
soft power e.V.
Teilestraße 11–13
12099 Berlin

April 30th 13-18h at L40 MAJA WIRKUS & ERIC PRIES WE ARE MILLENIUM STARS

Based on the worldwide correspondence of the renowned architect Helene Syrkus (1900-1982), the artist couple Maja Wirkus and Eric Pries develops installative-scenic units, i.e. moments of exchange translated into images and spatial structures, whereby the artistic medium is always photography and its extensions. To this end, a series of animated films, objects, photographs and text fare superimposed as constantly overwriting, constantly renewing knowledge spaces.
An overview catalogue will be published during the exhibition.
29 Apr 2022 – 18 Jun 2022
L40
Linienstrasse 40
10119 Berlin

April 30th 19h, die raum: JOHANNES HELDÉN & JENS SETTERGREN

Floating through a soft mist. When dissolved by terraforming technologies it reveals strange signs of a more-than-human constructor. Smooth, near frictionless, close to perfect vacuum. It seems to be in a constant state of mutation. A stream of consciousness from the future, a text generator, a mad monolith, an ancient quantum computer, an alien life form, an archaeological artifact, a vessel, an erasure poem, an advertisement virus, a communication device, a weather machine, a planetary log, an algorithm, a bad dream, the diary of a bacteria, a lost thought, a contemporary artwork, an incubator?
1 May 2022 – 24 Jun 2022
die raum
Oderbergerstrasse 56
10435 Berlin

CONCEPTUAL POETICS @MISSREAD Berlin: Starting at noon on Saturday, April 30, the stage @hkw_berlin will host performative readings, lectures, discussions and even a listening session.
The poster for this year’s CPD is designed by Zimbabwean-born visual artist Nontsikelelo Mutiti who will perform on Saturday, April 30 at 4pm.  @nontsimutiti
@missreadberlin Art Book Fair
29.4.–1.5.2022
@hkw_berlin
Free entry
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin