Blog entries by Maria Santos
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by Maria Santos, 14 Jan 2012There is a certain exhibition space in the middle of a jungle ruled by proud stroller-pushing parents and compulsive coffee drinkers that really worth a visit to the heart of Prenzlauer Berg. die raum is a 5 m2 exhibition space in the multifunctional house in Oderberger Straße 56 designed by BARarchitekten.... -
by Maria Santos, 9 Jan 2012mobile pics from the events we visited last week... MONDAY 02.01 Verein für Kunst und Kultur am Rosa Luxemburg Platz 16-Stunden-Version Lichtinstallation Bernhard Walters FRIDAY 06.01 Ksawery Sominski - Seeing is forgetting (1923 - 1979) @ TÄT... -
by Maria Santos, 12 Dec 2011mobile pics from the events we visited... WEDNESDAY 07.12 Exhibition 01) Wunderblock: Traces of process, document and memory @ Grimmuseum THURSDAY 08.12 Dove is a colour in my place @ Kreuzberg Pavillon Neukölln with Andreas Helfer, Georg Parthen, Martin Meyenburg FRIDAY 09.12... -
by Maria Santos, 8 Dec 2011Stedefreund is celebrating their 5th anniversary and re-opening in a new Mitte location with Space Release, a series of exhibitions that the group has scheduled until February next year. For Space Release #1, twelve Stedefreund artists deal with spatiality and the possible meanings of this brand new room that... -
by Maria Santos, 6 Dec 2011mobile pics from the events we visited... TUESDAY Kann Architektur unpolitisch sein? @ n.b.k. THURSDAY 01.12 Extension Series 12 @Grimmuseum SATURDAY 03.12 Mary Ocher's 7" Release Party @ .HBC Sunday 04.12 Lecture: Lose aus der Vase by johnicon @Grimmuseum @... -
by Maria Santos, 3 Dec 2011After a previous experience at Kunstraum Kreuzlingen and a year of research compiling material, curators Daniela Petrini and Tanja Trampe have displayed seventeen different approaches around the topic luck and happiness in a second exhibition zum Glück, currently hosted at Substitut. In fact, I happened to... -
by Maria Santos, 27 Nov 2011mobile pics from the events we visited... TUESDAY 22.11 Nobody, Who's On the Road @ Skalitzer140 Katrin Connan / Olve Sande FRIDAY 25.11 still not a performance/ the guy sleeping outside the Volksbühne pavillion while inside they are building up for the Nordic Performance Weekend... -
by Maria Santos, 25 Nov 2011On the occasion of one of the most exciting re-openings of this season, I met director Anne Fäser and artist Kerstin Gottschalk from the collective that comprises the artist-run space Stedefreund. If there is something that can certainly define the spirit of this group is their passion for space-hopping. Now... -
by Maria Santos, 23 Nov 2011Today we are having a music interlude in this section. This time I would like to introduce you to Chris Heenan and Christopher Williams, the curators behind Certain Sundays. Heenan (Washington D.C., 1969) and Williams (San Diego, 1981) first met in California, but their careers followed different paths before they... -
by Maria Santos, 16 Nov 2011Just a few days earlier than the Venice Biennale, Kreuzberg Pavillon first opened its doors in Liegnitzerstr., where Heiko's own atelier was initially meant to find a place. After one month and having realized how many people were observing from outside, he decided to open the space to the public. Heiko Pfreundt... -
by Maria Santos, 15 Nov 2011Giro d'Italia, a little article in the October issue of Monopol, made me really eager to pay a brief visit to the boot-shaped peninsula. A series of Povera Art exhibitions curated by Germano Celant seemed a very convincing reason to me to hop off on the Lombardy and take a ride to the Piedmont for the occasion.... -
by Maria Santos, 1 Nov 2011Suvi with a painting from the exhibition Alte Schönhauser Strasse 26 by Eemil Karila She landed in Berlin almost three years ago. Before starting the gallery under her name in Mitte, she would trace a long academic path from Finland via London and New York. Suvi first got her BA in Art History and then her... -
by Maria Santos, 27 Oct 2011The closest I have been to know them was meeting Georg Parthen and Nicolas Wollnik at their so-named space in Köpenickerstr. 159. Their paths crossed in Essen while studying Communication Design at the art school. Back in those days they thought that it would be nice to have a space of their own where to... -
by Maria Santos, 25 Oct 2011Since nights falls like big pianos lately, you can get the impression that days are shorter. But you can also grasp the best of Berlin evenings in venues with late opening hours like Subtitut (Fridays open until 21.00!). Art theoretician and independent curator Urs Küenzi established this non-profit independence... -
by Maria Santos, 18 Oct 2011This time I met Ulrike Ludwig, who spoke on behalf of the artist collective behind the Kreuzberg Gallery Scotty Enterprises. She is currently having a solo show at their space, what means that I also met the artist and saw her work, two birds with one stone. Raumbuch is an innovative project in Ulrike's career,... -
by Maria Santos, 11 Oct 2011Text and photgraphs by Maria Santos I'm almost sure that you have met her before. In fact you probably took part in a project that she curated. Remember the A0 posters at ex tip-Berlin-Shop during Gallery Weekend? Yes? Then you're in the right track, because she is behind Wert/Sache. Prior to that... -
by Maria Santos, 28 Sep 2011You have already met her if you were some of the lucky few attending the Speed portfolio viewing last sunday. In case you didn't, let me introduce you to the player behind the intriguing name of L'Atelier-kunst(spiel)raum!! Stefania Angelini (Nice, 1986) studied Psychology and Art History in Paris and London... -
by Maria Santos, 21 Sep 2011If Mitte was a worm, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz would be one of its hearts. The other four, you can certainly name them. What you can't deny is that the corners of the Volksbühne have a lot to offer. On its newest -and most shocking- building you can find the Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur...