The illuminated writing in warped, post-internet-aesthetics CAPTCHA font stretches over the wall of EIGEN + ART Lab 's exhibiton space. "Is anybody home lol" is both the title of this large site-specific neon piece and of the latest exhibition by...read more
Gallery Weekend once again presents us Berlin art scene’s crème de la crème with official shows at 54 galleries + countless additional off-program events. The 13th edition takes over the prolonged weekend to showcase new art shows, spaces &...read more
Bpigs team was out and about attempting to capture as much of the Gallery Weekend magic as possible. Take a virtual stroll through our snaps from the last week's events.
Berlin's gallery olympics have just began. Anxious from all the choices I had to make (50 galleries in 5 hours...can't do...or?), I headed out with a list of 15 places I would visit under any and all circumstances, despite the hysterical weather...read more
About 50 official Gallery Weekend galleries + even a larger number of unofficial venues are joining the race with all kinds of events on the last weekend of April. Things are already starting to heat up, so we strongly advice to visit this week's...read more
Complete with installation, wall painting, sculpture, and even performance, Christopher Kline’s show O.K. takes a multimedia look at the history and culture of his hometown Kinderhook, New York. Kinderhook is rich with folklore and cultural...read more
Gallery Weekend just turned ten! I won't hide the excitement and enormous expectations I had at the yesterday's press converence and the gallery tour. The organisation (this year with Maike Cruse in charge) made it more fancy and intimate,...read more
So we are through Armory, Frieze NY and Basel Hong Kong in one week, and at least one Biennal, more mature, more self assured and some of us even more prosperous. This is the second part of the how to fuck things up , a series of realistic,...read more
So what has been going on? Berlin Art Week is getting ready for its second edition. It got bigger, better and if possible... Berlin_er! The 10 main institution partners, abc and Preview art fairs are now joined by ten temporary partners, chosen by...read more
Unlike "director’s cut", this new series, which might or might not become a thing in Bpigs, will try to present readers with a shortened version of events: a dense mix of popular oppinion, marked usually with “I heard” and personal ones marked,...read more
What a week! The massive Gallery Week roster ensured that there was plenty of good, definitely some bad, and always some ugly. Hopefully our survival guide and sneak peak helped you make some well-informed decisions about how to divide your time,...read more
What a weird, beautiful, overwhelming day. Attending the Gallery Weekend preview for the press definitely gave me some material to discuss and/or brag about. Since I wasn't familiar with this kind of event (fresh Berlin transplant!), they already...read more
The Godfather part III He is very big in Italy... Is he, ha.. I thought it was just a friend of John’s.. He is huge in Italy... Here in Berlin he is a nobody. That is what I love about berlin, you can be anybody anywhere, here we are all the same...read more
According to a poster I saw on the street there were three Turner Prize winners having a solo show opening this gallery weekend: the coo-coo lady in Bortolozzi, the painting genius in Johnen and one more who now escapes me. It also escapes me who...read more
