BAW'18 - Berlin Art Week Returns
(Berlin.) Let’s start our tour of this year’s Berlin Art Week at NG...something - one of those Berlin Kunst-Verein-Gesellschaft thingies...
Kindl&Schinkel, Art, Beer, and Crypto
(Berlin.) Schinkel Pavilion does more than just hosting press conferences for obscure plans to rebuild the Berlin Wall as a promotion for...
Ilya Khrzhanovski Is Building a Wall, in Berlin. A Monument to the DAU?
(Berlin.) A lot of Berlin, and German, citizens actually wouldn’t mind to get that wall back. For a variety of reasons, cultural,...
Visions of Exchange: Taking the Daimler to Tokyo
(Berlin.) “Sorry, we could not calculate driving directions from ‘Berlin’ to ‘Tokyo, Japan’”. Thank you, Google Maps, at least you tried....
"We Need Another Museum in Potsdam, but A SAP!" Gerhard Richter’s Abstraction
(Potsdam.) It’s hard being a billionaire. Oh, sure: in the beginning it’s all fun and smiles, but wait for the day when you already own a...
Simply Not the Best: Berlin Biennale 2018
(Berlin.) KW Institute leaving home for a summer in the city doesn’t mean their space will stand empty this summer. On the contrary: It’s...
Externalised Artistic Schizophrenia: Profiling Lynn Hershman Leeson at KW at The Shelf
(Berlin.) Berlin Biennale is almost upon us, and most of you will be preparing their summer vacation or counting the days to the World...
The Apprentice Curator. A Meaty Show at Altes Museum
(Berlin.) Promoting their latest show, Flesh, Altes Museum – “Old Museum”, that’s the name indeed - does not exactly highlight the fact,...
Big Fish Eat Little Fish – Artificial Fish Eats All. Philippe Parreno at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) There it is: The long anticipated, much announced, summer show of Philippe Parreno at Martin Gropius Bau. Outside, climate...
Meese, Richter, TAL R. Art in the Hinterlands
(Stade.) Espoo (FIN), Holstebro (DEN), Stade (GER) - which one doesn’t belong? No, wait, let me rephrase that: Espoo, Holstebro, Stade,...
Ana Playing With Fire, and Mud: The Videos of Ana Mendieta at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) Complementary to Louise Bourgeois at Schinkel Pavillon, Martin Gropius Bau also shows a legendary, 20th Century, woman,...
Forms of Creation, and Decay. Louise Bourgeois at Schinkel Pavillon
(Berlin.) This year, Schinkel Pavilion won the race: Their Gallery Weekend Berlin show opened one week prematurely, days before everyone...
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2k18 - Part 3: Still more Galleries...
(Berlin.) Welcome back, those of you who still bear with me for this report on the high- and the low! -lights of Gallery Weekend Berlin...
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 – Part 2: Galleries, Oh so Many Galleries
(Berlin.) After the preliminaries, the gallery shows of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 finally started. Once again, it’s a long list, and...
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 - The Beginning: A Journey to Potsdam and Free Vodka
(Berlin.) Once again: Gallery Weekend Berlin. Still not “gallery-weakened”, still too much to see, far too much to mention all in a...
Artistic Fusion Cuisine, from Tokyo to Paris: Foujita -san at Musée Maillol
(Paris.) Still today, the mutual obsession between Japan and France, and the city of Paris in particular, is somewhat out of the...
Young Old Master Class: Tintoretto’s Beginnings at Musée du Luxembourg
(Paris.) In all its glorious opulence, the first room of Musée du Luxembourg’s Tintoretto show induces patrons to an almost cartoon-like...
Lutz Bacher - Living Up to Anticipation at Lafayette Foundation?
(Paris.) Have you not been waiting all your life for a sentence like this: “Back from backpacking to Paris, I’m backing up my Macbook...
Next Station Berlin: Irving Penn, a Centennial @ C/O Berlin
(Berlin.) Any nerd will be happy to tell you that a domain name is actually just a c/o address for a string of nonsensical numbers. For...
Carsten Nicolai. A Quant-astic Tele-party at Berlinische Galerie
(Berlin.) Lasers are cool, everything’s better with lasers. From SciFi to dermatologic surgeries and all sorts of “useful” applications...
Artists and Furniture. Judith Hopf, Trix & Robert Haussmann (ft. Liam Gillick) at KW
(Berlin.) Did we mention already, it was cold in Berlin, two weeks before Berlinale? Because it was. Could a visit to KW prove...
Stoschek Goes Black. Probably Will Go Back
(Berlin.) The first week of February and arriving at Julia Stoschek Collection for a new show, I felt desperately in need of a coffee,...
Beat 'Em Up, Wolf-Son. Jordan Wolfson at Schinkel Pavillon
(Berlin.) The construction works all around Schinkel Pavillon are almost(?) finished, and we can start speculating about what will...
The Ivy League of Collages - Eduardo Paolozzi at Berlinische Galerie
(Berlin.) After all these films, it’s time for some art again. The opening of Eduardo Paolozzi: Lots of Pictures – Lots of Fun at...
Berlinale 2018. Some Afterthoughts
And that's it; the 68th International Berlin Film Festival - Berlinale 2018 is history. Some films were good, some were less, and, let’s...
Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 9: Twarz (Mug), In the Aisles, Ága
Day Nine - 23 February The keyword of today is “countryside”. Believing the opening credits, Twarz (Mug) is set in the Polish “Nowhere”,...
Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 8: Eldorado, Museo (Museum), Touch Me Not
Day Eight – 22 February Time for another migrant movie, there are so few of them. This time, it’s a documentary – and so much better than...
Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 7: My Brother's Name is Robert, and He's an Idiot; Unsane
Day Seven - 21 February My director’s name is Philip, and he’s making actors say stuff like “How can something perish, that has a right...
Berlinale 2018 – The Films. Day 6: Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot; Phook (Pig)
Day Six - 21 February. Almost twenty-five years later, it’s about time for another Leaving Las Vegas. There are definitely too few...
Berlinale 2018 – Utøya 22 July, 3 Days in Quiberon, 7 Days in Entebbe, Season of the Devil
Day Five – 19 February This is a day of dates, and times, at Berlinale. From Utøya 22 July to 3 Days in Quiberon, 7 Days in Entebbe, and...