Last week we attended Berlinale and did some celebrity hunting on the side; the latter expectedly unsuccessful. Besides joining the festival hype, we were happy to do our usual job and attend some friendly and interesting exhibition openings.

Forum Expanded group show with Heba Amin, Hannes Böck, Azin Feizabadi, Robert Fenz, Malak Helmy, Judith Hopf, Ken Jacobs, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Firas Shehadeh, Clemens von Wedemeyer

The number of people trying to see John Waters’ exhibition at the opening was fascinating and very frustrating because there was almost no chance of getting into the gallery. But it was not about the show anyway. Everybody was expecting to see Mr Waters in person, and you could tell that by a large number of fans with cameras and carnival outfits.  It must have been very disappointing for them,  as well as for the other two artists exhibiting in the gallery at the same time who only got collateral attention from the people who gave up on queueing for Waters.