Diaries
Reviews
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by Rachel Simkover, 19 Jan 2012The press photo for Andrea Dettmar’s debut Berlin exhibition at Scotty Enterprises depicts a man emerging from or being sucked into an Etruscan Tomb. Paired with the title of the show, hatch, the photograph demonstrates the most literal relationship with the word’s definition: “an opening of... -
by Rachel Simkover, 14 Dec 2011Twelve artists, one background: Turkey There is no conceptual or formal framework that connects all of the works in the exhibition Zwölf im Zwölften at Tanas; the premise of the show is purely biographical: all of the participating artists are from Turkey and are currently practicing abroad. The exhibition... -
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, 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 Rachel Simkover, 15 Nov 2011What is immediately striking about the show, Surrogate at Galerie Axel Obiger is the tension between the two bodies of work presented. Granted both artists are concerned with exploring photography’s potential as a medium (and photography’s relationship to painting), but their investigations take... -
by Sarie Nijboer, 15 Nov 2011ERBE BY STEPHANIE HANNA @Donau x Ganghofer She isn't new to Berlin or to the space, but she's new to Pigs. The exhibition space Donau x Ganghofer is offering you the exhibition 'Erbe' from Stephanie Hanna. With the possibility to only view from outside and the sentence, "open daily... -
by Rachel Simkover, 14 Nov 2011Before there was text there was the image, a subjective representation of the surrounding reality. The text itself seems to be more complex. It consists of many layers including the semantic, the information, and the visual layer. In everyday life we focus on the meanings of words, which are formed by...
Intern's Diary
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by Laura Bianchessi, 11 May 2016Something big and warm has been shining in the sky for quite a while now. Since it seems it is going to leave us soon, let’s celebrate it with another colour! May 13: YELLOW Wall Chandelier - Diango Hernández @Galerie Barbara Thumm I admit it, I am kind of a meteoropathic, that yellow burning... -
by Laura Bianchessi, 7 May 2016It is finally springtime!! Look outside your window or lift your head from your smartphone, it is sunny in Berlin and the nature is alive again! May 6: GREEN Floating Green - Roman Verostko @DAM Gallery Looks like we have finally left winter behind our backs…and what is the color of life and spring??... -
by Laura Bianchessi, 29 Apr 2016It’s the second week and so it’s time for the second color. As I spent last week in Italy expect to see less Berlin, but more sun! Invisible Border - Mad Architect @Milan Design Week April 29: ORANGE Long-stay prisoncell at prison/TBS facility Overmaze @Milan Design Week Isn’t orange a bit... -
by Laura Bianchessi, 21 Apr 2016In the following weeks this will be my visual diary of chromatic resemblances, inspired by the city of Berlin and everything else I see. Expect every week a new perspective on a new colour. Astronaut - Victor Ash April 22: BLUE. Görlitz, Berliner Straße Why start with BLUE? Blue... -
by Aleksandra Poljanec, 29 Jan 2015In the last month, between Christmas, New Years, friends visiting, changing jobs and the chaos of moving I cherished the precious time spent for visiting some of Berlin's galleries, events and exhibitions. Often dragging people to accompany me to the new show opening or an old one closing. With a bargain and a... -
by Aleksandra Poljanec, 15 Dec 2014I am losing track of time. This morning I had to check, and turns out my interns bpigs timer is now past one month. Perfect time to post my overdue first post. Looking back I have no idea where this time went… so I skip through my event photos, and find that during the last month I have attended some of the... -
by Nathan M., 20 Nov 2013Last Friday, I was at the Pop-Up Gallery in Schöneberg - the week's theme was "American artists" and my roommate was showing some of the photographs she had been working on for the past few months. I wanted to support my friends - and I heard there was going to be all-you-can-drink prosecco for five... -
by Nathan M., 7 Nov 2013I’ve been thinking a lot about Van Gogh recently. This might be because I recently watched the episode of Scandal where the team is mailed a disembodied ear. It also could have to do with the beautiful white van in my neighborhood lined with Van Gogh-esque sunflower curtains. I call it “Van Go”. It... -
by Nathan M., 31 Oct 2013There are a few things you get used to while being an intern… -Working for free... Because who has money? (Not interns…) -Minimal direction... I was trained by Adela on a need-to-know basis, which I thought was a pretty effective strategy. Old interns train baby interns! Learn from... -
by Nathan M., 22 Oct 2013If you have been checking your calendar regularly, then you know Halloween is coming up next weekend. If you are avoiding facing the fact that summer is over, just revel in the photograph above of me at a Halloween party my friends and I threw when we were 11 years old. I think this was before Spin-the-Bottle.... -
by Nathan M., 17 Oct 2013Do you see that bright red light? When a computer dies, its screen often defaults to a cerulean blue screen affectionately called “the blue screen of death”. Likewise, when the WLAN in my flat fails, our router displays what I like to call “the red light of someone's-going-to-die-soon-if-o2-doesn...