ELK's Bathing and More - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) Hamburger Bahnhof Museum’s newly appointed director is not one of the grey gentlemen in black high street suits so typical for...
Don't Dread the Bad End in a Bunker - Berlin Art Week, Part 2
(Berlin.) Art fairs are not the only thing happening during Berlin Art Week, there are gallery openings, conferences, institution...
Berlin Art Week – Part 1: The Fairs
(Berlin.) Remember we told you there was no (important) art fair in Berlin? Instead, we said, Berlin has the Gallery Weekend (link), a...
Not Alone in The Dark Rooms
(Berlin.) Sometimes, people like to be left in the dark. It admittedly happens a lot in contemporary art. Sometimes even literally. You...
El Siglo de Oro - Velazquez, El Greco and mucho more at El Gemäldegalerie Berlin (¡olé!)
(Berlin.) Another day at Gemäldegalerie, and they work hard to maintain their reputation of being the most annoying art venue in Berlin....
Showtime with Bosch, or Art for Dummies at Alte Münze Berlin
(Berlin.) It’s that time of year again - even if you can’t tell it by the Berlin weather, still hoping for that climate change to speed...
Berlin Biennale, proudly brought to you by KW Institute for Contemporary Arts
(Berlin.) Berlin Biennale is not your average biennale. Founded in 1998 by the art triumvirate Biesenbach/Obrist/Spector, today it is...
The Possibility of a Palais. Michel Houellebecq goes art
(Paris.) Palais de Tokyo is always worth a visit, and this summer even more so if you’re a tourist stressed out from running around Paris...
“Old MacKrause had a farm...” Bernie Krause and The Great Animal Orchestra at Fondation Cartier
(Paris.) If by accident you have an inside contact from the secretive circle celebrating Fondation Cartier’s openings, please consider...
Rear Windows and Rockets from Lebanon - Josef Sudek vs. Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige at JdP
(Paris.) Not far from the river, set high on a hill overlooking Tuileries Garden, the Jeu de Paume was not forced to flee the Seine...
The Grand Tour; Manifestations of Fair from Zurich to Basle
(Switzerland.) We went to Zurich for the latest edition of Manifesta, a Pan European Biennale that has been touring the continent for the...
Ahoy Monumenta, fare you well! at Grand Palais
(Paris.) The Seine flooding this June threatened several museums along the river. The Louvre and the Orsay decided to close for a week,...
JSC – Digital in Style
(Berlin.) There’s a new kid in town, one more collector to brag about his possessions. And great they are, that much we admit. The...
Draw Bill 2 – No it is the Genius of William Kentridge at Martin-Gropius-Bau
(Berlin.) We knew beforehand what to write. We even had prepared some lines: “We cannot recommend anyone to visit Martin-Gropius-Bau as...
Cowboys catch the German Mondrian - Adolf Fleischmann and Dieter Blum at Daimler Contemporary
(Berlin.) We came back for another show at Daimler Contemporary, and on second look we like Potsdamer Platz a lot better, not least since...
Don’t Feed the Astronaut. No Hope for Basim Magdy at Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle
(Berlin.) And suddenly, there was the sun again. The long winter finally gone, spring has arrived in Berlin. The first week of May even...
So much art, so many galleries... Berlin Gallery Weekend 2016
(Berlin.) There is no truly important art fair in Berlin, and at the same time, the city hosts the world’s largest art fair, with the...
Exposing me – Private Exposure at me Collectors Room
(Berlin.) We trust you’ve all watched that first episode of the new Game of Thrones season. The day after, me Collectors Room opened its...
Movables and Mimes – The Works of Erwin Wurm at Berlinische Galerie
(Berlin.) Some days, you just need a little fun in your life. Take last Thursday for example: I was tired. I had had to get up early to...
Pump Up the Jam: Inflatable Art by Anthea Hamilton and Nicholas Byrne
(Berlin.) We visited Schinkel Pavillon again, and this time we’ve been prepared. The area still looks like a ground zero, if anything,...
Manifest this! Julian Rosefeldt at Museum Hamburger Bahnhof
(Berlin.) At some point during a visit to European Manifesta Biennale, filmmaker-slash-artist Julian Rosefeldt was struck with an idea:...
Stoner's Delight. Troglodytes and Forgeries at Martin-Gropius-Bau
(Berlin.) Today’s show is special: Martin-Gropius-Bau shows forgeries of unsigned works from unknown artists. Artists with a very...
KW Institute Makes Sense (does it?)
(Berlin.) We will not stop visiting KW Institute, despite almost every Berliner telling us how much better it was years ago. True, their...
That Pimpin’ Game’s BS. Blain Southern in Berlin. And an excellent show at Jiri Svestka Gallery
(Berlin.) Should you happen to have an abandoned industrial site or two in your real estate portfolio – located in or around some...
Visions, woodcuts and a Rhino: Albrecht Dürer and William Kentridge at Kulturforum
(Berlin.) Kulturforum is the name given to a cultural hotchpotch some hundred metres off Potsdamer Platz. There, in a no man’s land...
Drip it like it’s Po’ock. Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle Invites (a) Mural
(Berlin.) 11 a. m., the end of November, and winter’s come to Berlin. Through icy winds we carve our way to Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle...
Block the System. The Rene Block Collection at NKBV and Berlinische Galerie
(Berlin.) True, we’ve been talking about Guns’n’Roses lately, and reading today’s headline, those of you still in early nineties mode...
“Look for the Bare Necessities...The Simple Bare Necessities...” - Welcome to the Jungle
(Berlin.) First finding of the day: People in charge of KW Institute are old enough to remember a 1987 Guns’n’Roses song. This is not a...
As Time Goes By - Three Shows in Two Galleries
(Berlin.) Apart from all the events, institutional openings and art fairs (no link, as not worthy a critique), autumn brings some great...
The Turn of the Screw: Insights into the Würth Collection, and a Night to Collect
(Berlin.) “Schrauben-Würth” (“Würth of Screws”), Mr. Reinhold Würth is a famed German businessman, his eponymous company the world market...