Diaries
Intern's Diary
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by Sarie Nijboer, 13 Sep 2011For only one week Sarie is living in Berlin. Moved from Rotterdam to do her internship at Bpigs and Atelierhof Kreuzberg. For three years she's studying Lifestyle & Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. For Bpigs she's writing a diary about her life and happenings in Berlin....
How Did I Do It
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by Despina Stokou, 14 Aug 2015I have been waiting my whole life for someone to say something, or me to think of something, which will make everything else after that crystal clear. The one thruth. The secret. It has not happened yet. These are the advices, that have nevertheless stayed with me over the years. They might not be Oscar speech... -
by Despina Stokou, 12 Aug 2015I did not need to wait until the moment my UBER driver informed me I have a "bad passenger score," to realize everything in this contemporary version of reality is about RATINGS and where these place us in comparison to others. Anybody who has lived in New York knows that life is not about becoming a better... -
by Despina Stokou, 27 Nov 2013While no professional relationship is easy, rosy or all good ( and why should they) the artist-gallerist relationship can be particularly strained. Mostly because the contracts are written on dollar bills with champagne ink and it is very hard to decipher who is the boss, who owes who and how much exactly. A 50-50% of... -
by Despina Stokou, 2 Sep 2013Imagine you finally get invited to the Venice Biennale and you end up in this mess, in the upper left corner no less….That is what I thought about Sgarbi’s (mostly) painting cluster Arte no est Cosa Nostra, which appalled the art world in the Italian pavilion of the Venice Biennal two years ago. That was... -
by bpigs team, 10 Jul 2013We asked Cyrus Smith, the young Canadian Artist we have followed through his Kunsthalle Waiting line -Dante macht Kunst- to describe his experience at the Speed Portfolio Viewing event last Sunday. Here it goes: Cyrus Smith and Lily Khositashvii As an artist, any opportunity to show your work to an... -
by Despina Stokou, 26 Jun 2013A few success story-lines I run after him screaming.“I am not a cop! I am not a cop! It took me a while to convince him to come in the gallery. A few weeks later I got him in a group show. People loved it!…First Time he ever sold art… He is covering his face. No, he uses an alias. He does not want... -
by Despina Stokou, 16 Apr 2013Art fair season is upon us- the jet set, the name-dropping, the price-rising, the suspense, the champagne, the parties, the networking, the CELEBRITIES. Amongst the glamour, the VIPS, Eva&Adele, and the Press, there is a little army of Nobodies circling the booths like moths the light...Artists Anonymous. ... -
by Cyrus Smith, 8 Apr 2013In the ongoing "How Did I do It" Series we will get artists to talk about their experiences while pursuing "the dream" of an artistic career. Canadian Cyrus Smith talks about the waiting in line outside the Kunsthalle project last week. What would you do for a 2meter square spot on the wall... -
by Despina Stokou, 5 Feb 2013As with press releases, horoscopes and quite a few event newsletters that have popped out the last years, self-improvement guides are practically useless. Unlike press releases, I flip through “success manuals” religiously, but whether on purpose or by accident they never NEVER deliver the information they...
Tips This Week
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by bpigs team, 11 Mar 2026Miss Read 2026 will take place from June 26–28 at Silent Green. Pre-fair, in collaboration with Station of Commons, will take place from June 23–25 at Miss Read Space (Gerichtstraße 45, Berlin). The Conceptual Poetics Day will be held on Saturday, June 27, also at Silent Green.... -
by bpigs team, 2 Feb 2026anorak invites Berlin-based artists, curators, and researchers working in time-based media, writing, translation, publishing, and culinary projects to submit collaborative proposals for a 3-month residency at the shared anorak studio in Berlin-Tempelhof from 1 July – 30 September 2026. Berlin-based practitioners... -
by bpigs team, 15 Jan 2026... -
by bpigs team, 2 Oct 2025Urgent appeal: Protection for Oyoun director Louna Sbou and 18 other German participants after their illegal arrest and kidnapping on the Global Sumud Flotilla! PRESS RELEASE Oyoun calls for the intervention of cultural and political institutions in Berlin and throughout Germany to provide immediate... -
by bpigs team, 23 Sep 2025This week we are going on an Art Opening Detox. We have dance performances, zine festivals, puppet shows, speed dating and some Words in the Wild instead. Enjoy! Subscribe... -
by bpigs team, 10 Sep 2025... -
by bpigs team, 25 Aug 2025Thursday, 20 November – Sunday, 23 November 2025 anorak / Aktionshaus Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44, 8th floor 12099 Berlin What does it mean to consider the social life of film not as a feature but as its sole enabler? The third edition of The Social Life of Film takes place from 20–23... -
by bpigs team, 30 Jul 2025Apply now for the Professional development programme for visual artists. Applications from Juli 1 until September 15, 2025. The Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt has been run by Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk e. V. since 1989. It was founded to counteract the structural discrimination of female visual artists in exhibitions...