From Deutsche Bank with Love: Summer of Love at Palais Populaire
(Berlin.) Summer of Love at Deutsche Bank owned Palais Populaire promises to portray an era, a year, or only some months back in 1967...
Two Way Ticket to Pakistan: Bani Abidi, They Died Laughing at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) Pakistani artist Bani Abidi invites you to a virtual trip from Berlin's Martin Gropius Bau to Karachi. Mostly showing videos,...
A Summer Threesome at KW – Featuring ALL Genders*esses
(Berlin.) Part I: It. It can get quite dangerous to be gifted – or cursed – with a sharp tongue, a sense for bl- dark! dark! humour, or a...
Short Circuit to Success? 50 Hertz Rundgang 2019, Brought to You by Nationalgalerie
(Berlin.) I've hesitated, I really did: Is it ok to roast a young artist for his first show, or to be precise: three young artists for...
Bröhan’s Eleven: The “Association of the XI” at Bröhan Museum, Starring Max Liebermann
(Berlin.) “Travel and copy” is one of the best-proven recipes for success: Go abroad, take a look at what’s happening and if you think,...
Take me Beyond, Mr Olbricht
(Berlin.) This year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin cast its shadows already in mid-April, with institutional openings in abundance. Unlike in...
Do Androids Dream of Eclectic Portraits? Andreas Mühe and his Mischpoche at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) Photography artist Andreas Mühe is the son of a (locally) well-known, deceased, German actor, and even if upon being confronted...
The Weekend is Long and Full of Art - Gallery Weekend Berlin 2019
(Berlin.) Just a few (more) words on Gallery Weekend 2019 today, the annual decentralized “art fair” in Berlin organized by the same guys...
Breakdance and Ballet, VR and a Monk - A Thoroughly Modern Double Feature
(Berlin.) Just like every other market player, contemporary art museums, and not only those for contemporary art, feel a constant...
A Jack of all Trades – Jack’s Jacks by Jack Whitten at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) Hamburger Bahnhof Museum is a thoroughly modern art museum and as such, it follows the zeitgeist. A politically correct...
Pablo Picasso Visits Plattner in Potsdam. Picasso – The Late Work at Museum Par- no: Barberini!
(Potsdam.) Back in Potsdam, “Berlin’s Versailles”, and the mix of historicising new and once-destroyed-then-restored-thus-somehow-still-a...
Mantegna and Bellini, Two Italian Greats at Gemäldegalerie Berlin
(Berlin.) With Mantegna and Bellini, Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie - “one of Europe’s leading picture galleries” as they nowadays style...
Fantastic Beasts and How to Paint Them: Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald at Bröhan Museum
(Berlin.) We hope, nobody will take offence if this little known blog writes, a little known museum is on a mission to make a little...
Glass, Rocks, and Canvas: Colourful Stones at Georg Kolbe Museum
(Berlin.) Georg Kolbe Museum resides in an affluent Western borough of Berlin. You almost forget those exist, too, when staying too much...
Berlinale 2019 – Leftovers, or: The Best of the Rest
(Berlin.) What We Left Unfinished is not only the title of a film, but also our motto of the day. Apart from all those films in and...
Berlinale 2019 – Day 10: Fin.
(Berlin.) And that’s it, Berlinale 2019 is history, the 69th overall and the 19th, and last ever, directed by Diether Kosslick. The grand...
Berlinale 2019 – Days 8 and 9: Chinese Families, an OST without a Film, and Brazil Beyond Football.
(Berlin.) Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son is a Chinese family drama of three hours, and the pace is slow. An intense film, and not easy...
Berlinale 2019 - Day 7: Spanish Lesbians, Artists and Jews in Paris. "Elisa and Marcela",
(Berlin.) The last - and only - time, I’ve seen Agnès Varda was at the opening of her gallery show in Paris a couple of years ago. It was...
Berlinale 2019 – Day 6: Trash From Germany, Italy Reclaiming the Mafia, and Nobody’s Going to Syria
(Berlin.) Angela Schanelec’s I was at Home, But starts as a silent movie without intertitles or music. As soon as there is dialogue, you...
Berlinale 2019 - Day 5: The Ghastly Arctic, Agitprop, and Anatolia. "Ghost Town Anthology"
(Berlin.) The best words to describe Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology appear in the film itself: “You don’t need to be scared!...
Berlinale 2019 – Day 4: They all have a Cross to Bear, She, and He, and They too!
(Berlin.) Returning home from another unsuccessful job interview at a sweatshop in the Macedonian outback, overweight, 32 years old, a...
Berlinale 2019 – Day 3: Business, Scenery, and a Homicidal Hamburger
(Berlin.) A new day, a new psycho-drama. Austrian language film The Ground Beneath My Feet might have been named for some well hidden...
Berlinale 2019 - Day 2: Don’t Run From Your Issues – Not Even to Mongolia
(Berlin.) Remember that film yesterday, The Kindness of Strangers? There was this family father having serious psychological issues......
Berlinale 2019 – Day 1: A Lone, Sentimentalist, Film. Keep those Tissues Ready
(Berlin.) And so it starts again,... and ends. Berlinale LXIX - sorry, still in that Super Bowl mood: Berlinale 69 - is the eighteenth...
Oi, that’s Sculpture, innit? “Objects of Wonder - British Sculpture from the Tate Collection”
(Berlin.) As the director of Deutsche Bank Collection’s new art space put it: “The first hundred days of Palais Populaire are over, and...
Times and Technology. And Korea! Lee Bul won’t Crash at Martin Gropius Bau
(Berlin.) It happens quite often in art, that people of a Western background misunderstand an Asian artist. In the case of Lee Bul, it...
A Threesome with Robots, ‘Nature and Sh—‘ at KW Institute
(Berlin.) Three new shows at KW, three (still, rather) young artists presenting their work. First thing we notice on ground floor is a...
Agneszka Polska, Therapist for the Demon’s Brain. At Hamburger Bahnhof Museum
(Berlin.) As you are probably all aware by now, a certain Bavarian car maker is sponsoring the BAW and the GWB, among many other good...
Radioactive Nuts, Politics, Blue Chips and Planetariums. Still BAW'18
(Berlin.) If on the occasion of your visit to Berlinische Galerie’s Julien Charrière exhibition, which recently opened to honour the...
Who says “a” must say “B” - That’s a Strong Position. Thou Art Fair, BAW’18
(Berlin.) Art Berlin still is not the fiac, or Frieze, or – ok, we’ll stop. It is what it is, the best art fair you can reasonably expect...