Berlin

Berlin

2016

Have you met... Manuel Raeder

Bpigs had the chance to meet up with Manuel Raeder from Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite while visiting Libros Mutantes in Madrid. The all-round designer behind the German publishing house with the musical Portuguese name is certainly known to...read more

First impressions of ARCOmadrid 2016

Bpigs goes south!. Being Madrid such an inviting, sunny and generous city, we did not want to miss their very own Art Week while also getting some shelter from the bleak weather in Berlin. We put on our sunglasses and sneakers and went to all the...

2015

Gallery Weekend

Gallery Weekend debrief

Marguerite Humeau @ Duve Berlin Arriving at Marguerite Humeau’s show Echoes at Duve made one feel a little apprehentious when confronted at the door with a sign that tells you of the inclusion of ‘deadly Black Mamba venom’ in the wall and floor...read more

2014

just came to say HELLO @ KLEMM'S

Of the latest trends in op/ed journalism today, the list is topped by anxiety culture , the Generation Y /Millenials , and the morality of using unpaid interns (Hi! That's me!). KLEMM'S latest exhibition - which opened last Friday - seemed to toy...read more

Have You Met... insitu

From France to Luxembourg, and Australia to Austria, the four co-curators of insitu are the perfect example of Berlin's collaborative/creative museum and gallery culture. Coming from a variety of commercial galleries, the team of Nora Mayr, Lauren...read more

2013

Dana Schutz @CFA

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 07.11 - 09.11

Last week Berlin had a hot&cold thing going on. Besides the standard combo (hot people + cold drinks), it went a bit crazy with fireballs in the freezing Berlin night and snowmen in the melting African sun. THURSDAY 07.11 Jutta Koether @...read more

Intern's Diary #4: WLAN-less in Berlin

Do you see that bright red light? When a computer dies, its screen often defaults to a cerulean blue screen affectionately called “the blue screen of death”. Likewise, when the WLAN in my flat fails, our router displays what I like to call “the...read more

What Did I Miss/ What Did I Not Miss 27.06 - 30.06

THURSDAY 27.06 Nicolás Robbio - Every Body Knows @ invaliden1 A simple, lovely and subtly humorous show. Or at least I saw it that way, while it actually cites some paragraph on ancient Greeks, Newton, the universe, quantum physics... (A)...read more

Tips 26.06 - 29.06

Image from "Hyperborea" by Anton Ginzburg @ Recontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (25.06 - 30.06) This week we prefer diversity, and hope you do too. Our tips include lots of (free!) films and musical performances, as well as...read more

Have you met... Cato J. Dibelius

Yesterday, Bpigs had the chance to meet up with Berlin's youngest curator while working on his show "Daddy, YOU can't make a Cactus... this has been done!" at Grimmuseum. In the span of ten years, Cato J. Dibelius has visited over four hundred...read more

2012

BPIGShanghai

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

What Did I Miss 04.06-10.06

Kassel: Real-Unreel screening with Francis Alys; Art Magazine party @Ekstase, professional preview Berlin: Films and Windows I @ Mathew Gallery, Hilaron Manero "2011" @ 7hours Haus 19, Sameheads/Purge/Ocvlto Party Kassel If the sound of the Art...read more
Artur Zmiijewsky "Them"-still from video

Berlin /Art Hate-o-meter

Berlin and its art scene have long past the age of no man’s land innocence- the city is growing, the art scene tries to find it’s pace. Growing pains and conflicts come with it. As a mental exercise for the upcoming bb and in celebration…read more