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!
As the last days and nights (mostly nights) of 2012 rapidly slip through our sticky-sweet fingers, and since the world has not ended; a retrospection of shorts might be in order. What happened in the last 12 months, where have we been and where...read more
WEDNESDAY 19.12 Bar Babette - Christmas Sale organized by Daniel Kingery ( 7 works were sold) dj Marc Bijl work by Cecile Evans (relatively) new arty restaurant - ( don't try this at home, if you are paying) NEW! Mescal tasting bar and Mexican...read more
Interview with John Holten of Broken Dimanche Press If you are not yet already familiar with BDP it would be helpful to first acquaint yourself by reading an interview here with John Holten that took place at the beginning of this year. (above...read more
THURSDAY 13.12 KItty Kraus @ Galerie Neu Perspective @ G9 Galleria Nove Festive Neptune @ Alexanderplatz SATURDAY 15.12 Jan van Oost, "The Demon Love". With a music performance by Anne Müller @ Galerie Rolando Anselmi Sergio Ragalzi, "Madre_Oro...read more
This week’s Book Hook features two books by Berlin based artist Alexine Chanel, whose participation with Bigs goes back to last May’s Speed Portfolio Viewing. Both projects deal with the body (or absence of the body) in relation to public and...read more
I AM IN MIAMI, BITCH! *one of the T-shirt Slogans Despite it’s stretching on to three districts North, South Beach and what was very misleadingly called Designer District , where I went expecting petites boutiques and was confronted with...read more
THURSDAY 06.12 Blows to the temple @ Atelierhof Kreuzberg FRIDAY 07.12 Şakir Gökçebağ @ Tanas Hito Steyerl @ pro qm Edition 2012 @ Scotty Enterprises Adrian Buschmann @ EINE Galerie Christian Patterson @ Robert Morat SATURDAY 08.12 SAMEHEADS /...read more
FRIDAY 30.11 Max Beckmann Benefit Auction @ Villa Grisebach (1.000.000€ raised in no more than half an hour...) Bruce McLean, Time-based Painting @ Tanya Leighton Mise-en-Scène. Skulpturale Rhetorik @ Kwadrat Roses & videogames... @ The Boss...read more
K.Verlag was founded in 2011 in Berlin by Anna-Sophie Springer and Charles Stankievech. Anna-Sophie is an editor, curator, translator, and writer currently editing a book with Hélène Cixous for Merve Verlag, and her academic essay “Volumes: The...read more
Robert Montgomery: Echoes of Voices in the High Towers mono.log #01 published by mono.kultur Documentation of Robert Montgomery’s fleeting public works that most likely had a lasting effect on you this past summer are now accessible in a stunning...read more
IDIOMS AND PECULIARITIES OF CONTEMPORARY EMAIL COMMUNICATION In the second year (and a half) of its existence, Pigs, then Bigs, and now Bpigs, has admittedly stepped on another toe or two. Your responses, scold, and enthusiasm have been a constant...read more
Nur zu gut kann ich mich noch an die letzte Doppelkantine erinnern. Es war eine andere Doppel-Kantine. (Es ist immer eine Andere…): um für ALLE da zu sein, für die hart arbeitenden Freunde aus der K36 genauso wie für die von ausserhalb, sollte es...
ON ART AND MORTALITY It is immature and childish and I should probably stop doing it; especially now I actually work with them. In fact, if you are one of my gallerists, please feel unaffected by following statements, or better –stop reading...read more
Italian Conversations: Art in the age of Berlusconi Fucking Good Art #29 For the 29 th issue of FGA (Fucking Good Art) editors and artists Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma ventured out on a travelling residency/Grand Tour of Italy, visiting seven...read more
Julia Sherman, THE DOCTOR AND THE SAILOR- part of the Recess performances @ Moma Over the duration of the evening, the artist and one live model stage Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon *********************** While Chelsea galleries are...read more
WEDNESDAY 07.11 Fokus Grupa @ Gitte Bohr - Club für Kunst und politisches Denken THURSDAY 08.11 Malerei der 80er Jahre / Nina Pohl @ Sprüth Magers Tacita Dean & Anna-Catharina Gebbers @ Zum Beispiel Berlin FRIDAY 09.11 Believers @ Kow Joel...read more
Interview with Nuno da Luz of Atlas Projectos The first installment of Book Hook spotlights on Berlin’s publishers begins with Atlas Projectos based in Lisbon and Berlin. How did you get involved with Atlas Projectos? André Romão, Gonçalo Sena and...read more
WEDNESDAY 31.10 Drop Dead 10th Anniversary Party @ Cube Club Symposium Fluid Cosmologies I @ Schering Stiftung SATURDAY 03.11 Zinefest Berlin @ SFE Marinella Senatore's parade @ Mitte Iris Touliatou @ Duve SUNDAY 04.11 Tacita Dean & Jérôme Bel...read more
This, dear Artist, is the Whitney Museum- pronounced We Tni. You will come to show here, when you grow up. During the openings you wait in line, then check your name at the girls with the ipad at the door. The space is candle lit, they have good...read more
THURSDAY 25.10 Oliver Möst @ Galerie Axel Obiger Hajnal Németh @ Invaliden1 Otolith Group and Falke Pisano @ District FRIDAY 26.10 My safe reduction to form @ Exile Antonia & Jens Nordmann @ Stedefreund Axel Lieber @ Hengesbach Gallery...read more
A selection of shows you would have the chance to visit if you were in New York this weekend. Pictures are listed from: Lower East Side towards Chelsea, awesome to weird, and from normal to paranormal. LOWER EAST SIDE Andra Ursuta @ Ramiken...read more
FRIDAY 21.10 Reflecting on networks / artistic strategies using the web @ km temporaer Jérôme Chazeix @ Souterrain Beny Wagner @ The Future Gallery Dena Yago @ Sandy Brown SUNDAY 21.10 Agency of unrealized projects, lecture series part III @ daad...read more
rocket Jesus or the best poster I have seen since a long time "Concordia Concordia" Thomas Hirschhorn@Gladstone Gallery through Oct 20th, pic courtesy of the gallery see more “I want to do something Big.“ I nurse a mild contempt for press releases...read more
During his lecture, “What is the Museum of Contemporary Art?” co-curator of the 9th Shanghai Biennale Boris Groys brought up the following scenario: We are immersed in a virtual world surrounding life, and in order to get away, to escape the glow...read more
